Neil
Redfearn has issued a rallying cry to his Rotherham United players as he looks
to take the club in a new direction, but he has made it perfectly clear that
there will be fresh blood coming in either way.
Redfearn's
first fortnight in the job ended in a damp squib on Friday night as the Millers
sank to a demoralising 2-1 defeat to local
neighbours Sheffield Wednesday.
The
ease in which the in-form Owls took the points in the second half set the alarm
bells ringing as two goals in five minutes after the restart settled the match.
It
means Redfearn has taken just one point from his first three games as Steve
Evans' replacement, coming in a whirlwind six days, but the new Millers boss
has already seen enough.
With
the Millers locked in the bottom three change is on the horizon and surely not
all the current squad will survive as Redfearn lines up reinforcements.
"There is imbalance in what we have
got," he said after Friday's dissappointing defeat.
“We stayed up
last season; we just scraped it. We are down there again this season for a
reason. That’s why I am here.
”I have left them in no
uncertain terms that I want to take this club in the right direction.
"If
you want to come with me, you come with me.
"These
boys definitely need a bit of help, they need fresh faces and we need to rejig
it and go again.
"To
be fair, we have had a couple of technical board meetings already and we are on
with it."
The
Millers have carried a distinct lack of threat for much of Redfearn's three
games, with their consolation against the Owls coming through a set-play.
Matt
Derbyshire looks woefully out of form, Jonson Clarke-Harris has now gone six
games without a goal and there is little to come off the bench.
“We need to carry that threat and at the moment we
don’t," Redfearn added.
"We just don’t have that firepower, that poke,
and it is putting pressure on us at the other end."
