I also think that a problem for us has been the relative lack of contribution of young players. We are operating with a smaller budget than most I think success depends on contribution from young, relatively cheap players. We have not had much output from young guys so that has exposed the depth in our squad somewhat
I agree with this, but also the clubs seems to block their pathway. It seems like we have a have a youngster who plays in that position, then we sign someone else anyway. The latest being Singh and we sign Ljujic in his place. But before that we had parkhouse for Mcgarry, even A-rod for Ridenton (at a bit of a stretch as Matty was a bit younger).
There could be many reasons for this, but the outcome is a lack of contribution from our youth setup.