Most liked posts in thread: End of Season Player retention or farewell?

10 votes for Riley. A player who has made 5 appearances in 2 seasons.

Our fans quite simply deserve league two football.

 

Sorry @Rcbantam I don't want to fall into the same category as yourself, I'll make my own mind up whether I clap the players off or not, some clapped the players off at Salford I didn't as I didn't think after that performance they deserved any praise, but I also didn't shout abuse at the players.

 

Well we let Jonny Mac leave because we brought in Pickford on loan. Oh what we’d pay to have him back now. That’s the quality I expect in league 1/2

 

OK - here's my contribution for what it's worth. Since McCall's last term at Vp we have had (sorry if I've lost count) I make it 6 managers. Last summer Bowyer discarded I think 14 players and brought in at least the same number again. Funnily enough, as they were mostly League 2 players as well they weren't much better or worse than the ones they replaced (they were just players that Bowyer knew). So from a position where we were holding our own, not looking great but hanging in there, around Christmas the groundswell starts again - quote 'the players are sh**e, the manager's sh*te, the Board's sh**e, the pitch is ...' well,you get the idea. The stewards always get a good press. We might as well set it to music!
Has anybody thought that there might be some merit in a bit of continuity? Allowing a manager a couple of seasons to bring in a couple of key players and get them playing how he wants them? So that he can mould the team around them? The chance to bring younger players into a settled squad, so that their confidence is enhanced rather than crushed by the inevitable experience of only getting a game when we're desparate? Because you ain't gonna get superstars who'll come in and change things round - in League 2 you're only going to get journeymen and youngsters. So, for me, wholesale changes are just going to perpetuate the same cycle, and lead to the continued opportunity (which some on here seme to welcome) of booing your own player off the pitch.
Oh and while I'm in the mood, nobody, but nobody, whether they call themselves a Bantam fan or not, is going to tell me that I can't applaud the team I support, or renew a season ticket if I want to.
Call me a happy clapper if you want, but all you're doing is disseminating poison and division throughout the fan base.

 

I wouldn't offer a contract to any of them. Which one of them has done enough to be offered a new contract, not one of them for me, and that includes O'Donnell who a few have voted for.

I know it isnt going to happen. but of the contracted players, I would only want Wood and Paudie here next season

 

The only person from the entire squad that I would be certain of keeping is Wood.

There are a few that I would be ok with keeping (O’Donnell, Pritchard, Reeves, Donaldson) but if they all went I wouldn’t be too bothered.

 

I voted none of the above and that includes the two now below it. Awful set of players.

 

I'll agree with that but he showed promise the season before so, if we had a proper defender alongside him, perhaps he could rediscover that form?

 

Paudie's under contract and is a great age.

I'd keep him, no reason to bin off younger players - it's those we look to as 'leaders' we need to bin off, like Ben Richards-Everton and Anthony O'Connor.

 

Anyone who thinks Donaldson should stay needs their head checking. I thought it was a crap signing in the summer and I've seen absoutley nothing to change my mind.

 

There is also George Sykes-Kenworthy, Adam Henley, and Jordan Gibson to add to that list. I would let them all go TBH.

 

Well that's just not true is it. Devine covered in at RB once at the start of that season, the game vs Oldham at home. Otherwise it was McMahon at RB and Devine at CM.

 

25 votes for Donaldson and Riley? Wtf

 

The idea that Jonny Mac is a better goalkeeper than Richard O'Donnell is pretty amusing.

He's definitely made better career choices, making him either smarter or in possession of a better agent, but there's no way he's better than ROD.

 

I'll say it again, I don't see what McGhee has done wrong. Granted no clean sheets, but he definitely prevented bigger scorelines when he was in goal. As someone posted, OD doesn't seem to have any command of is area. The only time I see him shouting or directing players, is shortly after he's picked the ball out of his net.

 

I would welcome Joey Barton as manager. Couldnt imagine him putting up with players attitudes and lack of fight during the last 18 months or so we have had to endure

 

They face off against each other this weekend.
4th Offical will have his hands full.

Can't stand Barton, but personally hope his sticks one on Paul Raynor who's one of football's biggest pricks and with Evans should have been banned from football at Boston Utd

 

According to Parker, Donaldson has an agreed extention to his contract leveraged in his favour. If HE takes that up it's another

 

You forgot to add Anderson in that poll. Not that anyone will vote for him anyway. Other than park who'll be along soon to tell us he'll be good after a full pre season.

 

Christ ! Boreyer brought some poor players to this club !. Is Boreyers deadline striker Gutherie even still at the club ? But honestly if I"m Stuart I am keeping none on either list except Wood; Vaughan.

As for the loan players absolutely none of them either ! We are in a right mess