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reg22

love the optimism, but i think you're way off the mark

of our current imports, zawada is the only one who is worthy. kraev has the potential to be, but hasn't been.

in regards to goal threats, we will go from one goal threat to none. you said this like he was denying others the chance to be a goal threat. like zawada said himself, his ability to score is limited by the chances he is given by the team.

find another? in theory this should be easy, as there are plenty of available players worldwide, at any given time, who are well above the standard of the league. despite this we roll through 3-4 new imports a year, one of which might be a success. 

it's no sure thing and too much is made of how 'successful' we have been with our imports. it is true that we have had some very successful signings. but this is logical given the factors i have mentioned above. the reality is that most of our imports are 'ok for a mid table team'. for genuine quality imports, take a look at some of the imports they have across the ditch.

money is a factor, as is the status of the club. which is why we will always lose a successful import after one season. it's where we are at unfortunately.

I don't know about you but I thought it was pretty clear that at a certain point of the season we clearly changed the way were playing to specifically service Zawada. Crosses into the box and from the back of the field only benefit one kind of player and that is a giant Polish bloke. You aren't going to see David Ball or Kosta get on the end of those crosses. Kraev if he was in form might have been able to but as you said he was out of form. I think it was also a symptom of our entire team deciding that we had to be way more defensive with our leaky defence, working the ball around looked bloody dangerous after all. 

So in a way yes I think he was denying other players from being as much of a goal threat because we were playing a certain way to service him.  I think that contributed to players becoming out of form also. I'm not blaming Zawada in any way shape or form just stating what I was seeing. 

In terms of successful imports across the league, it would be nice to have those guys but we simply do not have the cash. I mean the most successful import is probably Valon Berisha who came from fudgeing Lazio - that is not a Nix signing in a million years. Which leads into your point about your point on lack of money and losing imports after 1 season which I completely agree with.