I am not at all optimistic that Allardyce will do anything that Bilic would not have. Plainly we will be set up to grind results out be difficult to beat and build on a solid defensive platform. I am less than convinced that the personnel are at the club to do this.
If the squad was imbalanced under Bilic it is no less so under Allardyce just imbalanced in different ways. If the squad wasn't good enough yesterday it isn't good enough today. Yet having just watched Villa play Burnley I think there is a tendency on our part to put other team's squads on a pedestal and our own in hole.
I would caution against any expectations of a squad overhaul in January I think we are probably looking at a couple loan signings and I don't think that would have been any different had Bilic remained in post. Personally I am discounting the impact of any possible January signings. By the end of January we will have played 9 games and unless we pick up points with this squad our fate will be sealed before any new signing has had chance to lace up their boots.
Quite. Firing Slaven was just papering over the cracks.
I don't think it's strikers, finishers that we are lacking. Look at our side of a decade ago. We have never replaced Gera, Mulumbu, Yacob, Ollsen and Brunt.
Really, really, really. Time to stop blaming the coaches.