Quote Originally Posted by Baloo View Post
Your point seemed to be our form at the end of the season proved something or other. Are we shifting the goalposts now then?
Not at all, it all ties in together. Nobody with a straight face can claim we didn't have problems with the squad composition, namely a lack of pace and goals. No player got into double figures for the season after all, Helguson ( and I'd have loved it if he'd been a decade younger ) was top with 9. We had no-one with width and pace to stretch sides. The problems we had in Prem were already there in the Championship; difference being they weren't as badly exposed.

Knowing those problems, who did we sign? Caulker - great at Swansea, shown to be poor when not alongside Williams and made him captain. Medel, looked the part early on and faded over the season. The only player who could have potentially solved the pace/goals issue was Odemwingie. Conway and Gestede were bombed out to Blackburn on loan with perm deals agreed.

All that tells me that Mackay built an unbalanced squad, wasn't able to address it in the summer and played a defensive, counter-attacking style in the Prem without the players capable of doing it. Again, the problems with the squad in the Prem were there in the Championship and not addressed.