I don't mean to sound pessimistic, but I remember Sven receiving the "wait until the January transfer window so he can build his own team" chestnut.

I don't necessarily believe signing a whole host of more players is the answer. We have premiership quality talent in our existing players however we are missing a team bonding between them. As Blackpool demonstrated, you can get promoted with some of the worst players in the division but get promoted as a team and playing like a team.

However, how you get all our players to bond - I dont know!

Cosbyfox

"how you get all our players to bond - I dont know"

Superglue in their lip salve?

no more nails

'We have premiership quality talent in our existing players'

But a lot of it is distinctly average Championship talent.

I think Nigel will get them bonding in time but it's very obvious we are lacking wingers and a creative midfielder. There is only so much he can do with what we've got, though I haven't agreed with every decision he's made about the lineup so far.

We will not go up until we sign at least one winger and a creative central midfielder. He simply has to sign these players or we can forget it.

I won't give up on us this early, we were in a worse position last season at this point (and playing worse too, as unbelievable as it seems now) and after a good run we ended up 1 point out the play-offs at the end of February.

We are still capable of getting there but not without 2 quality signings which have to be spot on, the squad isn't good enough.

Yes, we got 21 points from the next 10 games last season and were 2 points better off at this stage. After February we began to nose-dive.

“We have premiership quality talent in our existing players”
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Yes and no. We might have Premiership quality in some players, but we don’t have Premiership quality in every position within the team.

The failure of Sven to build a balanced team means that NP has had to revert to his old guard to give us balance. These players were not quite good enough before and are not good enough now.

I’m getting fed up with reading that we have a squad talented enough to go up. We don’t! We might have a squad capable of scraping into the play-offs, but it is too imbalanced to guarantee anything. This is why Sven was sacked.

wouldn't you say we have a better team now than the one we comortably made it to the play offs with?

Not saying you should, just wondering

actually not a 'better team' but better individual players ^