Re: [LU] It seems to me..........

[SeanScribe]

In a message dated 5/23/2006 12:05:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: that the people who play hell about our crap players (Kelly, Gregan, Butler, Lewis, Crainey, Douglas etc.) are also the ones who say with the players we had we should have gone up automatically. Now you can't have it both ways lads. Either half our team is shite in which case Blackwell did well to get us to the play-offs or the team is so good that Blackwell's tactics fucked us up and stopped us getting automatic promotion. Which is it to be? Incidentally, can you supply us with a list of which of our players are so fucking good. Well, first I'd point out that there's a difference between saying that the we should have gone up automatically "with the players we had" and saying we should have gone up automatically with the money we've spent. Personally, I think both apply, but bear in mind that we currently have SEVEN forwards in the first team squad: Hulse, Cresswell, Healy, Blake, Moore, Beckford and Ricketts, yet when our ONE right winger got injured, Blackwell complained that it screwed up his whole plan for how we would play this season. Maybe it would have been better to have four or five forwards, and two right wingers. Just a thought. (And yes, I know Beckford came on board late in the season, but there's still no reason to have six strikers on the books and only one right winger, especially when three of the strikers are classic "big men" who would profit from a steady supply of crosses from each wing.)   Secondly, if "half our team is shite" then that reflects on Blackwell. It's his team. With very few exceptions, he signed them and selected them.    Good players? Good enough to build a promotion-winning team around (as opposed to good enough for the Premiership)? I'd say Sullivan and Bennett are good enough. So are Kelly, Richardson, Kilgallon, Lewis, Derry, Miller, Bakke, Hulse, Healy, Cresswell, Blake and Stone. I haven't seen enough of Beckford to know about him. Most teams who get promoted from the Championship don't have top quality players in every position. But they have enough that they can carry a few journeymen.   Cheers!   Sean