Recruitment wise we haven’t been the best in the division but their are far many that have been worse. QPR outside of the parachute payments win my prize for best transfer window, but any one of Reading, Derby, Swansea and Cardiff did worse than we did. Granted some were forced by historical madness and rule breaking, so got what they deserved.
In all honesty I don’t think you could actually say any of the signings were bad, Long, Malone, Ballard, Saville, Afobe and Ojo.
Equally rightly or wrongly we didn’t lose any of our assets, Wallace, Cooper, and I would put McNamara in that category.
With youngsters out on loan, Mitchell, Olaofe, Moss, Muller, Burey and O’Brien, these future assets should gain valuable experience and game time, possibly ready for the step up next season. This is vital because we have the oldest squad in the championship, well we did until Reading just signed a bunch of geriatric’s.
Am I slightly disappointed, possibly, but then I think about who we are missing, Hutch, Bennett, McNamara, and Leonard, which makes me think things will come good. On top of that we rarely start a season well no matter the team and god knows why.
With six games in four weeks before the next international break, I’ll reserve my judgement on Rowett until then.
COYL