05-11-2021, 01:44 PM
I backed Jackett until he lost the play-offs to Oxford and stated several times he should have resigned then. He'd come very close but 3 years was long enough.
Not sure what your point is about the young players being brought in to gain experience. Of course that is the point of such loans. So what ? Earning your place in the team is part of that experience and they haven't (yet), but that does not mean they should not have been signed to give them that chance.
But you are wrong about the previous experience at a higher level because Hirst had a whole season in the Championship last year. Not very succesful experience admittedly but higher level experience all the same.
And Ahadme a centre forward ? What evidence do you have of that ? He looks more someone who plays alongside a centre forward to me, not the main man. His loan has been affected by his remarkable success in the friendlies (playing as the support striker btw) which resulted in a weight of expectation that he has not been able to live up to because he was not physically up to Lge 1 football. If he has been trained correctly (and it sounds like he is a hard worker at training with a great attitude) he may yet come good but needs to do so before January because we cannot afford to have the squad place filled by someone who is not going to be up to the job. And certainly not two of them.
Not sure what your point is about the young players being brought in to gain experience. Of course that is the point of such loans. So what ? Earning your place in the team is part of that experience and they haven't (yet), but that does not mean they should not have been signed to give them that chance.
But you are wrong about the previous experience at a higher level because Hirst had a whole season in the Championship last year. Not very succesful experience admittedly but higher level experience all the same.
And Ahadme a centre forward ? What evidence do you have of that ? He looks more someone who plays alongside a centre forward to me, not the main man. His loan has been affected by his remarkable success in the friendlies (playing as the support striker btw) which resulted in a weight of expectation that he has not been able to live up to because he was not physically up to Lge 1 football. If he has been trained correctly (and it sounds like he is a hard worker at training with a great attitude) he may yet come good but needs to do so before January because we cannot afford to have the squad place filled by someone who is not going to be up to the job. And certainly not two of them.