Losing 1,500 appearances worth of experience from the squad is looking painfully evident at the moment. If I’m being ruthless here, I think only Byrne (gets a bit of a free pass), Barrows, Mullarkey and Lundstram have looked consistently up to the level so far this season, while others have sadly looked well short of what’s required.
Said it in the middle of pre-season but we’ve lost Mooney, Hancock, and Kosylo for a long period of time, and we’ve really struggled to replace them. For all the stick he got, you can give me Tom Peers over any of that starting front 4 bar Colclough, but even he looks like his head has fallen off.
I’ve always said football is mostly confidence and it could just be that we need a win to kick start a bit of form, but if that win isn’t coming in a game at home against that calibre of opposition, then I do worry about where it does come from.