"I think at some stage we have to add to the squad and the balance is getting the timing right," he explains.
"When the shop window closes it will settle down from that point of view with the Premiership clubs knowing what they have got and who they might be willing to move out.
"And from the players' point of view they look at it and might think 'I am struggling to get a game here, I might be better off having a spell on loan' so it becomes easier then.
"The slight difficulty is that this year loan signings can be made from one Premiership club to another which wasn't the case before.
"Obviously some Premiership clubs might find it easier to pay the wages of other Premiership clubs rather than if they dropped down a division where clubs in that division sometimes do a deal to pay part of the wage because they can't always afford the Premiership wage they are already on.
"So this year will be slightly different and make it a bit more difficult than in the past.
"The biggest worry was always this interim period when I think we all realised we were thin as a squad.
"Unfortunately, until the window closes, it was five league games and a cup match and if you started struggling it would have been doom and gloom.
"But we had the two wins and a scrappy draw against a side that will be there or thereabouts, and without that goal in the first half it got scrappier.
"But the main thing is that defensively we were very tight and there were no silly lapses - it will be important to stay solid at the back.
"Now there are three games in eight days, Rotherham, Bradford, and Ipswich, which will give us a clearer idea.
"And the Nottingham Forest game is likely to be called off because it is international week; the chance are it will have to be rearranged.
"If we emerge in the top seven or eight from there you would like to feel you can get one or two extras in."