I can't disagree that is ia huge risk Alex but keeping last years team wouldn't have cut mustard either.
Im genuinely curious as to why you think last seasons team wouldn’t have done well in League One?
Very fair question Alex. Like most on here, I was on cloud 9 after Wembley and felt the squad had done an amazing job to get us over the line and into League 1. We had a fair share of luck along the way and very nearly bottled it during final run in to make the play offs but again like many I saw how we had built a joint up team who worked for each other and was one we could get behind. When I had a break from the forum after Wembley success, I was hopeful that we would have kept the 2 Kelly's and Orsi as well as Scott. So 2 out of 4 for me which I was disappointed with but assuming bids were of a sufficient value its what we always do. The others I wasn't too fussed about losing although as Sooty referred to earlier Llolos was my next pick to keep. I don't feel the old team had it in them to compete in League 1 but agree that is subjective and we will never know now. My positivity is based on a hope (and yes at this stage it can't be any more than that) that we will sign some quality players based on both Wagmi data mining and Scott's knowledge. I was never a Cory fan (with JTG on that one) and hope today's signing is a precursor to getting some serious talent upfront. Whilst Orsi had a good year, he had many stinkers as well and the choices we make upfront will probably determine how our season goes. Lastly I definitely would have preferred that we had hired new players earlier and had them in place for the first pre season friendly and the fact we haven't makes the job of Scott and the coaching team that much harder. I realise that much of this by the very nature of football is just my view but I do respect the work done behind the scenes last year by Wagmi to bring success and am not yet of an opinion that we shouldn't give them a chance to prove that they may just be on to something.
Im genuinely curious as to why you think last seasons team wouldn’t have done well in League One?
Very fair question Alex. Like most on here, I was on cloud 9 after Wembley and felt the squad had done an amazing job to get us over the line and into League 1. We had a fair share of luck along the way and very nearly bottled it during final run in to make the play offs but again like many I saw how we had built a joint up team who worked for each other and was one we could get behind. When I had a break from the forum after Wembley success, I was hopeful that we would have kept the 2 Kelly's and Orsi as well as Scott. So 2 out of 4 for me which I was disappointed with but assuming bids were of a sufficient value its what we always do. The others I wasn't too fussed about losing although as Sooty referred to earlier Llolos was my next pick to keep. I don't feel the old team had it in them to compete in League 1 but agree that is subjective and we will never know now. My positivity is based on a hope (and yes at this stage it can't be any more than that) that we will sign some quality players based on both Wagmi data mining and Scott's knowledge. I was never a Cory fan (with JTG on that one) and hope today's signing is a precursor to getting some serious talent upfront. Whilst Orsi had a good year, he had many stinkers as well and the choices we make upfront will probably determine how our season goes. Lastly I definitely would have preferred that we had hired new players earlier and had them in place for the first pre season friendly and the fact we haven't makes the job of Scott and the coaching team that much harder. I realise that much of this by the very nature of football is just my view but I do respect the work done behind the scenes last year by Wagmi to bring success and am not yet of an opinion that we shouldn't give them a chance to prove that they may just be on to something.
I mean of course we’ll never know if last seasons squad would’ve kept us in League One and I accept that it is fair to question how good the squad really was. As you say we just scraped into 7th place by the skin of our teeth. I think myself possibly and other fans have a rose tinted view of how good the squad was thanks to a quite frankly sensational play off campaign and forget that our form was inconsistent for large parts of the season. However, I think our brand of football and the momentum that we had from such a brilliant end of season would’ve gone a long way to getting us points in League One and I think we saw in those back to back away wins where we scored 4 goals in each games and the play offs, we were seeing a very exciting squad starting to come together and I feel we would’ve gone from strength to strength and surprised a lot of teams and finished in the top half of League One.