Hoop BlahGordons Cumming Only 2 of them played any where near regularly though.
Which one of Doyle, Duberry and Hahnemann are you discounting then?
Not getting the best out of an expensive asset like Lita, who should be a very good goalscoring at this level, also cost us to some extent.
Its things like this that strike home. We had a surplus of midfielders but how many times did one of them throw in a truly dominating performance? How many of them could throw in that kind of performance? We had a quality strikeforce, on paper, but with Lita sulking and Hunt injured, we gambled on Kitson and relied on an out-of-form Doyle when, perhaps, other options could have been available. We had two of the most highly rated wingers in the league (at least in the eyes of other fans) but what cover did we have when they lost form, confidence or the want to be at our club? Once Ivar got injured, we were left with a player slightly too old, a player in his first full season with us and square pegs in round holes at centreback.
We had an unbalanced squad that had too many average players, not enough options, not enough capability to adapt to what the season brought. We also had many of the same problems in the previous season, but we did nothing about it in the summer so only the blindly optimistic or the frankly retarded would be surprised that it was the root of our drop in form this season.
