I simply can't see Evatt changing his football philosophy and bringing in a 'hard man'.
He seems fixated on the 'beautiful game' to the exclusion of all else.
I happened to catch some of the commentary of the Coventry v Luton play-off final (hard lines Coventry, what an achievement Luton) and Ian Holloway was the football pundit alongside the match commentator.
Now I'm no Holloway admirer but talk about the in vouge football style of passing the ball about at the back, centre backs having hundreds of touches and sooner or later the inevitable will happen where a pass goes astray and the opposition are immediately in on goal - and scores.
We've all seen it happen, too often, with Evatt's style we play.
I'm not advocating longball but what's the point in taking 90 passes and 10 minuets every time to move the ball up from our penalty box to theirs?
We have to have more strings to our bow than just the Evatt way.
We have games were we get bullied - but we never bully other teams - why not when it works for others against us?
I've said for some months now that we need to be unpredictable from time to time, the weaker teams we play simple park the bus and us taking 90 passes before we get a shot off isn't going to break them down is?
Most teams used to play two different styles of way, more attacking at home and more defensive away - we seem to play the same way home or away.
Great if it works but we all know teams who simply know what to expect from us - Barnsley for instance simply targeted Bradley in the semis - and it more or less stopped us from performing.
I can only assume Evatt tried to give Bradley some protection in the second leg by picking Thomason as the 'enforcer' but he isn't good enough to do that - he isn't the cold hearted assassin type we needed - and still require.
I'm not so sure the 'enforcer' would be a fixture in the team but we would need him for say 20 to 25 games in the season - and we simply don't have the type of player in the squad.
Unfortunately I can't see Evatt signing one either.
We need to go all out win our home games - and have some 'steel' in the team to not lose in our away games - if we really are serious about promotion next season.