6 of the 11 that started are new players this season. 1 of which arrived at dinnertime. The team needed rebuilding. Weir is rebuilding it. You don't move into a house if there's no roof do you. It takes time. The squad he is building is a damn sight better than what we had 12months ago.
The reason we are here is Ched Evans. The moment we failed to go up at the first attempt was the moment we fell into obscurity. McCabe (for all his knockers) gambled and didn't sell all the high earners when relegated in a hope to go up at first attempt. By failing to do that we had the entire backbone ripped out of the squad. Wilson getting us in play offs last season was a miracle and proved what a good manager he was but the fans wanted him out so here we are.. Moaning about the next one
He might be re-building a squad but first and foremost regardless of the so called "transition" that the club is in you can not deny that Weir walked into a club that already had a very good backbone within the squad and most importantly one of the best back fours on paper in the country but most importantly in this league. I have given open support for the areas that Weir identified as areas that needed strengthening from an early stage, now I realize that for Weir to have acted so promptly in strengthening these areas it must have been on the advice of someone else but never the less he's added a bit of quality but also some who at present have turned out to be a waste of space and players who are merely picking up a wage.
Maybe.................. What weir should have done is.
1. Build on a squad that like I said above had a solid backbone and one of the best back fours in the league and build around this improving the areas that needed improving in order to compete in this league.
2. Continued with a formation that has proven to be successful for us for the last two seasons, a system that our solid spine of the team are used to playing and one that has seen us in a play-off final and a play off semi final for the last two years rather than trying to implement a completely new system to a team that are all new to eachother therefore this puts the existing players out of their comfort zones never mind the new boys.
3. Continued with a style of play and formation that has not only been almost successful for us over the last couple of years but one that is renowned for achieving success in this league and seeing teams promoted?
Weir for me has taken the team backwards so far. He's stripped everything back to the bare bones and has changed everything, taken away everything that has worked for us previous and has made our usually reliable players uncomfortable and a mess!
The only thing I do believe is that Wilson shouldn't have been sacked. He did very well with what he had and your right he shouldn't have been sacked, it was harsh and wrong. But now sitting here with the potential of available cash to buy players do I think Wilson would have been the right man to spend it? Im not sure.
