Including Beestin and Braithwaite who’s on dual registration with Gainsborough, we have 7 central midfielders. That is bonkers in any squad size, but especially one of this size. Butler has caused this problem.
Agree. It was odd that we had so many midfielders in on trial (and subsequently signed 3) when the need for at least one (preferably two) seasoned wingbacks has been glaringly obvious to everyone other than Turnbull and Butler since pre-season.
Perhaps it was a scattergun approach in an attempt to replace Butterfield. But what we’ve ended up with is 3 very average midfielders instead of one quality one.
I saw a comment on X or FB (memory fails me) recently that suggested we’ve gone for quantity over quality. Maybe we would have been better served bringing in one proven striker from the division above rather than both Carlton and Fishburn. Perhaps one decent midfielder would have been better than Brogan and Rowley, who both can’t make the team. Appreciate there’s squad numbers that we need to meet but with the ability to dip into the loan market for emergency injury cover maybe the poster has a point.
