---------------------Seigrist--------------------Walker---Cuellar---Clark---Baker------------------Makoun---Delph--------------Young---------Bannan------Downing-----------------------Bent---------------------Friedel, Collins, Bradley, Albrighton, Gardner, Petrov, AgbonlahorThat side would beat Wigan.
We may still need 2 more points let's not lose sight of that
I really think that some people are making our first team to be something they aren't. What difference does dropping some of them make? I have absolutely zero faith in so many of them. Anyone on here who doesn't shit themself every time the ball goes near Collins and Dunne must have nerves and bowels of steel. The only reason we haven't kept that many clean sheets this season is because those oafs have been playing and if they weren't it was a green youngster like Baker or Herd filling in. Look at Cuellar's performances this season and you won't find much cause to complain and Clark has impressed in spells and has a big future. Anyone who doesn't see Petrov and NRC as deeply limited needs new glasses. I hate to be blunt and I do appreciate both players and their qualities but they are not the greatest players in the world. Makoun is better than Petrov and just needs the game time to get up to speed. With Bradley the jury is out because he has hardly played.We are safe and we are not going down and I don't really care where we finish outside of that this season. Next season is more important and our performance then will be maximised by having a squad of players who have at least some experience of the game played at premier league speed and who know each others' games. We need to know if Bannan, Delph and Gardner are good enough to have an immediate impact. We could waste millions more than that we would lose in prize money bringing in new players we don't need.As I say I have absolutely zero faith in many of our current players. I don't think we will beat West Brom with them and West Brom are no great shakes. It is a shocking indictment of how bad our first team are. My team was an extreme selection there is no reason why it wouldn't work with just two changes to give some different players a go?
Heskey for Bent, Walker for Cuellar. This is still largely last season's team, playing last season's football. No surprise that we look better than earlier this season, but good as some of the kids are, the whole club was in turmoil, and it was unfair to ask them to perform week in, week out. Where we go from here is the question. Do we rebuild the squad or just bring in a couple of "top" players? Big, big decisions to be made. But who will make them?