I think our biggest areas of progress over the last two seasons were in continued player development. Obviously we've become much younger as a team, with many of our important players looking like they could see NT action for many seasons to come. Also with the help of Morwood and the U21 teams excellent work I think we're doing a better job at identifying promising candidates younger so hopefully more will develop.
And well obviously I'll just run Sharpling out with 4 defenders and give him the green light ;) But seriously I think that's one of the biggest positives of having a younger team right now, if we identify a major change that could give us advantage many of our best players would still have time to adapt at least slightly. Something I don't think a lot of nations our size have as an option, obviously Spain, Italy, and the US have whole potential teams coming up every year and could adapt quickly, but that's not a luxury we can afford.
To me it is fairly unfortunate that these GE changes are coming midseason, as they won't allow much testing(if we're still in the competition as I hope) but hopefully we can pool our considerable knowledge and quickly determine what the changes are and how they affect us.