02 Feb 2018 18:01:34
Good post Bige, when you look at the Wilko team that got promoted, how many of the current team have the potential to get into that team when they were playing in the old 2nd division. Very few maybe Saiz and Pontus on the bench . That really is the gap between where we are and what we need . A new manager may push the current squad for 6 or 8 games and get some more out of them, but all the players would be worn out then. They are pretty worn out now. Being worn out is why we fell away so badly last season and could fall away again this season. I can remember that Wilko teams well and you always knew they could dig in and get a result even when they were behind. We still need a stronger backbone to the team, some more on the wings and a goal scorer.

1.) 02 Feb 2018
02 Feb 2018 18:20:01
The blind leading the worn out. Half a season and the hacks are tired out? TC OUT!

2.) 02 Feb 2018
02 Feb 2018 19:00:47
Very true PA, Wilko signed Chapman in January of our promotion season a proven goal scorer and he produced. A midfield of Strachan, Jones and Kamara along with a young Batty and Speed were never going to die wondering. Proven experience along with the naivety of youth a winning combination. Sterland, Fairclough, Strachan, Batty, Speed and Chapman all there at Bournemouth and all there when we lifted the old first division title, sorry but I don’t see that happening with our current best XI.

3.) 02 Feb 2018
02 Feb 2018 19:35:58
to be fair that comparision is harsh, that team practilly won the league two years later i prefer to look at teams around us and i don't think they have better 1st 11 or squad other than wolves we are as good as anyone certainly not 9 betters teams than us

4.) 02 Feb 2018
02 Feb 2018 20:08:26
Bermo, the table tells us where we are, sorry to say. What I was trying to show is by comparison to the quality needed for us to get out of this league last time, the current team is way way short. Not many of our current squad would have got a game in Wilkos team

5.) 02 Feb 2018
02 Feb 2018 21:01:59
Not many PA, I would say if any! Pontus and that’s it for me!

6.) 02 Feb 2018
02 Feb 2018 23:17:10
If I remember correctly didn't Wilko's team finish 17th the season after winning the league, just goes to show what selective memories can do

7.) 03 Feb 2018
03 Feb 2018 07:53:27
no I agree PA and can see your point, but that wilko team was a very special team, outside of revie team I can't think of many players who would of made that team, maybe viduka, bowyer (maybe) and rio outside of that not many get into what was a really great side