Budget Increase

[LargsTON]

Why does the quality of our squad seem to decrease each time the budget is increased?  

[TopCat]

9 hours ago, LargsTON said:

Why does the quality of our squad seem to decrease each time the budget is increased?  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cvg324w0vmwt#GreenockMorton

From the corresponding fixture last season. I wouldn't say the quality has decreased. Boyes and Crawford are missed, but JET, McGinn and Broadfoot would've struggled in League 2.

[Greacen2000]

10 hours ago, LargsTON said:

Why does the quality of our squad seem to decrease each time the budget is increased?  

Sounds more like a case of your expectations increasing at a greater rate than squad quality.

At this point last season we were still winless but had already been beaten twice, and as Topcat mentions above we had some absolutely honking players in the squad who were way worse than anything we have in the squad at the moment.

Not saying everything’s perfect - clearly there’s a lot of room for improvement but it’s early days yet and based on the squad we have I fully expect us to get better as the season goes on 

[SpoonTon]

11 hours ago, LargsTON said:

Why does the quality of our squad seem to decrease each time the budget is increased?  

I've thought for a long time that one of the reasons that we've managed to compete so well with a lower budget is because a bigger budget at this level (unless it is much bigger) tends to give teams more depth rather than more quality. Or, at least, the quality doesn't increase by the same amount as the budget increases because there aren't much better players out there waiting for a bit more money. That's why you get teams like Dunfermline or Partick in recent years who end up with bigger squads than us but not much more quality. And also why it's very easy to spend the money poorly. 

We've now got Comrie as well as Ballantyne. There probably similar in terms of quality but there's now cover. We've got extra midfielders, but nothing significantly better. We've managed to bring in Brophy, where otherwise it might just have been Adeloye. Over a full season it should make a difference, but it won't if we've spent poorly and it's always going to be difficult to greatly improve the core quality of a starting 11 (unless there's a huge increase in budget). The evidence is there from lots of other teams at this level that it's difficult to greatly increase the quality of a team. 

 

[RossMcC1874]

Like others have said I dont think the quality of the squad has increased even with extra players. We lost both centre backs and imo replaced them with two with less quality and experience at this level, even if Moore has showed some early promise.

Our midfield is pretty much the same albeit I think Macpherson will add some quality but the performances of other players in there hasn't been brilliant ie Wilson. 

Upfront Brophy is good and will score goals as he has already proven but I would bite your hand off for Stuparevic back. Our wingers are still inconsistent sand dancers so that has stayed the same. 

It's still early in the season I'm hopefully we will come good there is still 5 teams without a win so nothing to panic about just yet. 

[vikingTON]

Brophy is comfortably better than Stuparevic, who was like Adeloye only with a free pass for not doing much other than finishing the odd chance (putting the two of them together, as tried for 3 minutes before they both got injured last season,would have been a disaster). 

The depth is better but there are two key areas of the team that are not better and are having a huge impact on how we can play: centre backs who cannot reliably deal with nothing balls; the diabolical output of all wingers - (who by playing also weaken central midfield). 

[Jamie_M]

7 hours ago, Greacen2000 said:

Sounds more like a case of your expectations increasing at a greater rate than squad quality. 

This.

There was so much expectation around sections of the support the last time we were told we had increased the budget.

Many oblivious to the fact that it didn't necessarily make us more competitive when even the likes of Ayr had started chucking money around with far bigger budget increases than we had.