There's probably a consensus that the main area of concern is up front. A number of options have been added to the squad at the deadline and it will be for Micky to work through them and come to a way of making best use of them. Without reiterating what I said after the game, at this stage it's like the song; more questions than answers.
My perception is the defence is a work in progress rather than the finished article. In central defence, Knight-Percival and Davies are an upgrade on their predecessors, Cogley adds a different dimension to the right-back role and we know already what O'Connor and a fully fit Macdonald can do. Maguire is a squad player, who the manager seemingly has reservations about. However relying on the fact we've only conceded twice in the league doesn't consider the full picture. Walsall couldn't hit the target for toffee, despite getting a number of shooting opportunities and Pools didn't attack some quality balls into the Rovers box, so the lack of goals conceded could reflect as much an opponent's failing to capitalise as the quality of defending. Not that there wasn't some high class defending, both Clarke's goal-line clearance and Cogley's dash back to rescue the situation after Duffy's misplaced free-kick in the Hartlepool game illustrate that. The fact that Joe Murphy has kept us in games or the score-line respectable particularly away, indicates there have been occasions where the defence have been unable to protect him. It's telling that the one game Murphy didn't feature in, the Cup loss at Oldham was the one where we conceded most.
We've a couple of what look like more testing games this month, hopefully things will still be looking as rosy in terms of goals conceded by the end of September.