Re: our man Mr Birch

Without reinforcements, that looks a very weak and threadbare squad.

What I find very hard to understand is that we have let so many players go, and replaced hardly any of them. Not even with weaker players. We just haven't replaced them at all, so that some weeks we can't even put a full compliment of substitutes on the bench. That isn't bad luck, or a simple mistake, it's total negligence.