Chill Winston.
In Monty we trust.
At the end of the 21/22 we were ‘gutted’ losing Miller, Rowles, Urena, hatch, bozanic, Birraz, smith, Tonyik. However will we cope?!?!
We recruited Vuka, Tulio, Sammy, Triantis, Kaltak, Aqualina, Rhus, Ayongo and Kalechi. Run strong to the transfer window, then get rid of what isn’t working in Aqua, Rhus, Ayongo and Kalechi, and lose one of our brightest ever in a Garang. We bring in McGarry, Theo, and DWH plus start using youth more on the bench with a view ti this year.
We turn over a LOT. But one thing we should have learnt by now is that we find diamonds that others don’t with our visa players. We find immense talent in our own, and our oppositions youth structures and give it a chance. We rarely don’t hit the mark with recruiting, but when we miss, we fix it quickly and ruthlessly. And most important of all - the culture of this club and standards set within it means that whoever comes into our system will flourish, and play their best football.
I don’t particularly like that we are losing some of our best players, but I also don’t think the sky is falling in.
Arguably we have never been a more attractive club to come to. Arguably we haven’t had this kind of budget, since we nearly went bankrupt. We are in the best recruiting position we have ever been in - if we lose good players I have full faith that we will fill with good players. But in traditional Monty/Serge form, we will have never heard of them, and they will be better than the nonsense recruits on superannuation tours that the big teams sign.