With the impending departure of Charlie Wyke, Lee Johnson is looking to give Ross Stewart a run of games in pre-season, aided by Aidan O’Brien and Will Grigg. Hopefully that’s just a short-term plan until he brings in further reinforcements up front.
PLAN
“We had to plan for every eventuality. In fact, the planning already started in signing Ross Stewart. That planning was January anyway because I know they are different players with different styles but at the same time they do have similar attributes in terms of their qualities. I think in the last game of the season, second leg (League One play-off semi final), you saw Ross Stewart in that first sort of 55 minutes and exactly what he’s about and to be fair to him, he hasn’t truly been fit yet for us with the hamstring injury and then being thrown back into games.”
RECRUIT
“I think this pre-season is really important for him and then you got to obviously got to recruit around what you’ve got. We’ve got Aidan O’Brien, we’ve got Will Grigg. Whether or not Griggy stays remains to be seen but he’s here and it’s not like we don’t think he’s a good player. We do think he’s a good player but obviously sometimes that doesn’t always come into whether a player wants to stay or not."
