Discussing the Second String

A few weeks back, I wrote a piece discussing what we needed in the transfer market.

My opinion at the time was that we needed more pace, more creativity, and more depth. Lucas Moura has certainly solved the first one. It is probably fair to reserve judgement on the other two until we have really seen what he is like, but I felt it was a good signing on paper.

However, the results (and performances) against Newport and Rochdale have given us a good glimpse at our “second string” and have left most of us unimpressed.

Let’s talk mainly about the recent game against Rochdale. Now, most people would argue that it doesn’t matter who we have, a club of our stature should be able to draw names out of a hat from all of our squads and still put out a...