JJpool
Well-known member
OK you never refuse it but being realistic...
If we did manage to get in the playoffs and get up, we've struggled in the past to sign players permanently at that level as many demand the going rate for that division. It feels like we'd need a lot of signings if we went up.
Ideally you need the bulk of your squad together and a defined style you are comfortable with, preferably good at passing from the back and in possession and beyond, otywrwise championship sides will dominate you, be a well drilled efficient team who scores goals and wins games regularly at this level, that's what the teams who've done well going up have done.
Then you can try and add a few quality permanent players to it and get the best of the loans.
Is it actually better for us to build that squad at this level?
Sides like Peterborough show you can build it at this level and then you'd add a few real quality additions to that with a few quality loans and that should do it.
It doesn't feel like we're anywhere near that, as remove our loans and we'd be fairly average. Rhodes is the only one who really scored regularly, Dembele the creator of things, Coulson has begun to show his class on his side recently.
If we did manage to get in the playoffs and get up, we've struggled in the past to sign players permanently at that level as many demand the going rate for that division. It feels like we'd need a lot of signings if we went up.
Ideally you need the bulk of your squad together and a defined style you are comfortable with, preferably good at passing from the back and in possession and beyond, otywrwise championship sides will dominate you, be a well drilled efficient team who scores goals and wins games regularly at this level, that's what the teams who've done well going up have done.
Then you can try and add a few quality permanent players to it and get the best of the loans.
Is it actually better for us to build that squad at this level?
Sides like Peterborough show you can build it at this level and then you'd add a few real quality additions to that with a few quality loans and that should do it.
It doesn't feel like we're anywhere near that, as remove our loans and we'd be fairly average. Rhodes is the only one who really scored regularly, Dembele the creator of things, Coulson has begun to show his class on his side recently.