Very Little Depth To Our Squad

‘ Very Little Depth To Our Squad ‘

By Gary Fields

http://www.cardiffcityforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=176244

With O’keefe injured and Richards & Peltier carrying knocks the loss of Moore and Adeyemi is the very last thing we need in my opinion. We are down to the bones of our squad and without an experienced forward and nearly half the bench at Fulham will now be from the development team how on earth can anyone within the club seriously claim we are trying to be competitive.
Our squad is currently smaller in numbers than at anytime since our return to this level and, in my opinion, the shortage of numbers is already showing itself as a problem. I was thinking about the first season Dave Jones was at the club when our forwards was Alan Lee, Paul Parry, lucky lob Campbell and a young Cameron Jerome later joined by Michael Ricketts, Andrea Ferretti and Ndumbu-Nsungu.

It was worse in 2011-12 after we lost players like Chopra and Bothroyd but at least Malkay Mackay was allowed to sign players like Cowie, Conway, Miller, Taylor, Turner, Gunnarsonn, Turner, Mason, Gestede and of course Earnie.

With no emergency loan window available this season it is more important than ever that we have enough players of both experience and quality to compete over, at least, the first 23 games. Do our owners have enough commitment to ensure Paul Trollope has the tools to do his job?
Will we make 50 points this season that’s the question for me?