Will be interesting to see tomorrow nights team for me if he puts munns out on the left the manager learnt nothing from saturdays game.
Just hope adams is fit for our lhs with oates and with munns playing in the centre midfield just behind amond that should at least give us some threat.
I know people will say go 442 i agree at home but away 451 keep it tight and go from there.

Hopefully we have some loan players in soon to rectify the lack of strength and pace in the side.

Sure, but Harrison has had the luxury of the close season to deal with these issues...................

There is an (incorrect ) assumption that Harrison has signed a load of players of his choosing. This is simply not true.

As Pam herself has said, the clubs Head of Recruitment has been targeting potential signings since January 2017, and negotiations with those players began before Harrison had even been appointed.

Likewise Harrison had zero input into the retained list which was done before he had been appointed.

He can be held responsible for team selection and tactics, but I doubt he had much input into make up of the squad. It also sounds like the players who chose to leave had already made the decision before he arrived.

You're not going to say in an interview "I came here because the Head of Recruitment offered me more than Leyton Orient, I've never heard of Craig Harrison" to be fair.

Why were we signing players for a new manager with no system or style of play in place? its total madness. Surely any head of recruitment would know this and isn't the head of recruitment Pam's husband? If she is try to run the club to get her money back seems strange to splash money on players who could be redundant in 6-8 weeks.

I remember the club saying players had been scouted and targeted from January 2017- the time a lot of changes were made at the club. I would imagine at that stage nobody at the club was expecting that Jones and his entire entourage would be out on their ears within 3 months. Given Coxall was still talking about it being a " transitional season " and Jones was talking about us being a potential " Championship Club " I don't think relegation was on the agenda either.

Like at any other club, scouts and people charged with player recruitment are employed to go out and watch players, and target those whose contracts might be about to expire shortly. I remember Pam saying back in April there was a contingency plan for relegation. To that end I would imagine the club had identified a set of players we might want to sign for both eventualities.

Given when in the year Harrison was appointed, he was hardly in a position to go out and watch potential signings in action, and was probably glad that someone had drawn up a list of players that the club had identified as potential signings and had scouted. He no doubt reviewed that list, and probably had players he wanted to add to it.

In reality that is how many, many, clubs are run these days. They employ people to go and watch games and identify potential signings. Some the manager may immediately want to sign, other he may want to bring in and have on trial for a while.

As long as the people charged with recruitment are good at their jobs and the manager is sufficiently competent to sort the wheat from the chaff at the interview/trial stage it should work. Certainly other bigger clubs seem to have had success doing it that way.