thefutureistangerine
Well-known member
Two names that keep popping up on this board and I really don't understand why - do people honestly think they'd be making a difference at the moment?
They're approaching 32 (Speaing, next month) and 34 (Feeney, in Jan) and are currently playing for Tranmere who are 17th in League Two. I'm sure there are people on this forum saying we should have kept two - let's face it - ageing League Two players, while also bemoaning the fact we have brought young players up from the same division.
I'm thinking back to those two home games over xmas, Shrewsbury and Accy at home, where we got beat 1-0 in both. We were too defensive, had become predictable and relied on one route to score. Spearing couldn't get into either game and did nothing to influence them. I remember coming away from Bloomfield Rd after both thinking he was on the decline and that we were going to struggle for the next half of the season. He was a great pro for us and gave everything, but just saying it like it is.
We're all over the shop at the minute, and it's going to take time to sort (more so with the recent suspensions), but I genuinely think there is a play-off team in there somewhere. Especially with Dougall, Virtue and Grétarsson still to feature. We just haven't found the balance yet.
We've got to look forward. I'll happily hold my hands up and say I'm totally wrong if this goes properly tits-up (because there's definitely a chance of that happening, too), but there's no chance I'm going to hanker for a past mid-table League One side and a near-34 year-old winger to sort this out.
They're approaching 32 (Speaing, next month) and 34 (Feeney, in Jan) and are currently playing for Tranmere who are 17th in League Two. I'm sure there are people on this forum saying we should have kept two - let's face it - ageing League Two players, while also bemoaning the fact we have brought young players up from the same division.
I'm thinking back to those two home games over xmas, Shrewsbury and Accy at home, where we got beat 1-0 in both. We were too defensive, had become predictable and relied on one route to score. Spearing couldn't get into either game and did nothing to influence them. I remember coming away from Bloomfield Rd after both thinking he was on the decline and that we were going to struggle for the next half of the season. He was a great pro for us and gave everything, but just saying it like it is.
We're all over the shop at the minute, and it's going to take time to sort (more so with the recent suspensions), but I genuinely think there is a play-off team in there somewhere. Especially with Dougall, Virtue and Grétarsson still to feature. We just haven't found the balance yet.
We've got to look forward. I'll happily hold my hands up and say I'm totally wrong if this goes properly tits-up (because there's definitely a chance of that happening, too), but there's no chance I'm going to hanker for a past mid-table League One side and a near-34 year-old winger to sort this out.
