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It'll be a start. We simply cannot continue with the squad as full of deadwood as it currently is. There are creative ways to offload players under contract. For example, tell them they won't get another game, then (a) they go to their agent to get a move for them before they vanish into obscurity and won't get a new deal anywhere else because they're out of the shop window, or (b) they actually learn how to not be shite and start contributing. I am certainly not suggesting we pay off the duds early, because that is stupid and not sustainable for us. GA has crippled us in that sense.

Fully understand, and suggest aboard a rocket into the moon.

Offload Shields, who is on a no doubt decent 3-year contract, to fund a deal for Penney? He has certainly demonstrated a greater attacking threat than Shields.

It would be madness not to offer him a permanent deal for next season or at least extend his loan for the remainder of this season, but I imagine the former will depend on the situation with McGinley and Carroll and the latter on us offloading some deadwood in January. Fingers crossed.

Unfortunately for Shields, he's been here for 1.3 seasons and continually shown us that he's not good enough for this level. That one 'sublime' goal does not make a premiership-level player. He has 1.7 seasons left to prove me wrong, unfortunately.

3-5-2 Kelly McGinn Sol Lamie Cornelius SOD Goss Slats Penney Tierney KVV

The club announced this in the Efford injury update article. ‘Rolando Aarons is currently with his parent club’

We're shite, but they're shiter. That's it.

While I agree, Hammy had no other options. Slattery was on a yellow and playing shite, and Spittal needed oxygen.

Slattery, Goss and Spittal are powderpuff. Maguire replacing Slattery will toughen the midfield, but any good will be undone by Morris.

We’re inviting them to equalise because we’re a team full of shitebags. We badly need a midfield enforcer to grab them all by the scruff and shake them into action.

60 mins too late. We should dominate the midfield battle now and sneak a second.

The difference between Shields and Tierney is that the former is 25 and shows zero signs of improving and the latter is 21 and looks likely to develop into a decent creative player.

Connor Shields. These stats are unacceptable for a premier league forward player who has played 1.3 of his 3 season deal. We can't afford to carry this type of deadwood into a third season, so we must offload him somehow and soon.

Hammy should be telling them to pepper him with shots and crosses.

Told you. He just missed an absolute sitter.

Shields isn't a footballer. He's a speedy muscle guy type you often see in the gym on a Saturday night doing dumbbell curls in front of a mirror.

Big January transfer window required now, including firing Shields and Morris into the nearest bin. Aarons won’t be back, and Moult will likely only be a cameo performer at best now.

3-1 home win and Watt to be head-butted by a frustrated KVV.

Agreed.

Any good team needs a consistent and solid spine, which we don't have. It's clear that we need at least one commanding CB, a Campbell-esque CM, and another CF. That might help us get the basics right.

Signing Moult and Aarons may be his downfall. However, he inherited all of the other issues and knew that before choosing to throw himself in at the deep end. It's now down to him to manage us out of this mess.

If Hammell doesn't come out and give an honest assessment of the state of things and the plans he has to fix it, he's going to start coming under a lot of pressure from fans very soon. This piss poor squad and their pathetic performances will see us relegated.

He's been shite recently, yes, but we have bigger problems. KVV could score every game, but we would still continually concede easily preventable goals due to shite defenders.

We can't rely on one striker to do everything, but that's exactly what we've been doing recently. We have no alternatives.