This is the best squad we have had for a very long time. There is real quality, competition for places in every position and good young players with potential.

It all looks very promising and hopefully we will not suffer the dark days of league one again anytime soon!

All pace and no finesse, much like a jigsaw, he goes to pieces in the box and although he works very hard, he is often injured, off-side (sometimes incorrectly!) and has never contributed anywhere near the 15+ goals per season required.

A good league one striker but only a wide man or man off the bench in the championship i’m afraid, like the lad though!

Which makes team selection interesting given how much Billy has sprouted on about the importance of balance. Or is this something else he’s now going to contradict.

I’d have thought that the side would look something like (R to L):
Camp
Gunter Morgan Wilson Shorey
Anderson McKenna Majewski Cohen
Blackstock Tyson

And that is horribly imblanced with all the pace down the right.

In the interest of balance, Anderson and Tyson as opposite wingers makes sense which pushes Majewski into a “playing off the lone striker” type role – much like he did against Plymouth. But that doesn’t fit with Billy “I’m a 4-4-2 man” Davies either.

4-3-1-2 or 4-3-3 would leave us exposed to Shorey’s lack of pace and (relatively) small size (5’9).

And we’ve arguably played some of our best football when Dexter and McGoldrick have been on the pitch together with one of Anderson or Tyson, not both.

In fact, we’ve only played our best attacking talent together (Blackstock, McGoldrick, Tyson, Anderson and Majewski) once all season – at Peterborough.

To replace Cohen with Shorey in that lineup would leave him either on the bench or taking McKenna’s place – and I can’t see our captain being left out.

It’ll certainly be interesting to see how we line up when Tys is fit. Mind you, some other bugger will be crocked by then anyway. And we’ll have signed another 3 players