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ritchie82

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  1. Ever since Dickov has arrived he's tended to go down the young, exciting but ultimately inexperienced route. And for me Feeney (spit!) Kuqi, Todd , Byrne and Murray apart he's put his faith in increasingly younger and inexperienced players. Even lads like Grounds, Morais, Simpson etc… have played less than 100 league games each.

     

    HIs biggest mistake was letting players like Gregan, Abbott and even Hazell (even though I wasn't his biggest fan). When budgets are being reduced and you're in for a season of struggle it's important to have one or two leaders out there. This season Byrne apart - possibly Tarky, (he's a kid though yet voca) we've been a team of pussy cats.

     

    I see a lot of parallels to Ritchie's tenure here, Brierley and co didn't have a pot to piss in but Stitch kept his experienced lads in Garnett, Kelly, Dux and Reid added Whitehall and later managed to sign Shez and McGinlay, one worked out the other didn't but all helped kids like Allott, Tipton, The McNivens, Bosh, Innis, Holty et al scrape to safety.

     

    The year after he lost Reid but countered this by signing more experience in Adams. The kids were a year older and becoming a bit more savvy and more like Hotte, Paul Jones, Salt, Sugden etc..made the breakthrough alongside their more experienced counterparts.

     

    Again in the Summer of 2000 Stitch was having to deal with Shez's body packing in on him, he added more experience in Carlo Corazzin, before acting to halt a dreadful start by bringing in Eyres and Carss. Again one vastly experienced the other to compensate for Shez's absence. The constant spine of Kelly, Garnett and Dux was still there.

     

    The year after the purse strings were loosened by Moore but again Ritchie didn't go mad, again he went for experience in Balmer and Mini-Shez, and brought back the now lower league hardened John Eyre added to his squad of kids and battle hardened journey men we topped the league.

     

    We can have all the talent in the world - and we do have some cracking talent in this squad but we are so inexperienced. We lack the spine Ritchie's team had, Dickov in signing Murray has moved to rectify the lack of experience in the middle of the park. We have it at the back with Byrne but perhaps need to get Tarky in alongside and I would love an experienced striker up top. Come the summer if Dickov is here he needs to bring the experience in. Don't bother signing 4 or 5 kids bring in 2 or 3 experienced players to complement those that are still under contract. If that means wheeling and dealing, so be it. The manager surely cannot count himself as inexperienced anymore. after-all his tactics battered Liverpool into submission and destroyed Forest away, battered Donny at home etc...

     

     

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