- Sep 1, 2014
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Have messaged you.@daryl hannah
Genuinely curious why you disagree.
The argument people make is ..
- our start to the season is poor.
- we make signings late.
- the late signings are causing the poor start.
Now obviously some reason has to be given for this conclusion and I think the most powerful one is that by making these signings late, the new players don’t get a proper poch pre-season and so don’t play as well.
But for this to hold true the following must be true:
- The late signings must be playing in the games where we have bad form.
- The players’ form must only recover once they have a poch preseason. Otherwise their poor performance could be down to the usual hiccoughs we see with a lot of new signings that typically take months to get right eg adjusting to a new country, getting in tune with teammates. If these alternative reasons are correct then signing them earlier would not solve our early season form...
In fact these players have a minimal role in the early season games and so cannot be responsible for our poor form. What we find is that poch beds these players in slowly. This is true regardless of whether the players were signed early or late.
This must mean there are one or more other causes of the poor early form but it cannot be because signings are made late.
Very open to being told I’m wrong on any of this !!