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A Quiet Monkfish
The squad Warnock inherited wasn't awful, but it was half way between what you would call a footballing side, and functional side. Warnock knew that to get a footballing side to promotion would entail greater risk and uncertainty than a functional, effective machine - albeit with some dashes of footballing ability. He knows he can go to the footballing equivalent of B&Q or Screwfix, order his parts, and put the machine together.