sally cinnamon:
All this talk of a clear out sounds familiar.
Remember at the end of the Steve Price era, we were fed up of underachieving and there was general consensus that we needed a clear out. The team with guys like Hill, Clark, Cooper, Charnley, Austin, Lineham has all been dismantled now.
Now which of those players have we managed to replace with an upgrade?
If you do a clear out and you bring in players of less quality than the guys who leave, you're going to have a weaker team. Whatever changes you have in the coaching staff or club CEO/directors, you can't get around that basic problem.
We're unlikely to be able to do another complete overhaul of the squad, the only solution is consistently good recruitment over 4-5 years to build the team, in the way that we did from around 2007-2012.
Agree with this. Complete clear out is fraught with problems and never really a goer. Keep the good 'uns & improve recruitment is best plan ... if only it was so simple.