If you lose Murphy, Humphrey, Law, Ojamma and a 30 goal a season front man and replace them with poorer players then of course we are going to struggle. Throw into the mix Faddy who has not been fit then its even more of an up hill task.
Here is our team from our best result and performance of last season. The 3-1 win over Celtic:
01 Randolph
03 Hammell
05 Hutchinson
15 Ramsden
04 Law (Higginbotham - 90' )
06 Hateley
07 Humphrey
14 Lasley
08 Ojamaa (Francis-Angol - 89' )
09 Higdon
20 McFadden (Carswell - 85' )
The only part of that team that remains is the defensive part - all our attacking threat is gone. Apart from ZFA and a totally unfit Faddy.
I actually think its miraculous we are so high up the table considering the surgery McCall has had to perform on the team with virtually no money to play with.
I do agree we need to bleed in the youngsters more - just get rid of Anier and play Moore - to me Anier is a pointless addition to the squad if he goes in January. That could have been 6 months with Moore in the first team.