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Ha I hear you I just think those players with better players around them could do well at this level and would be capable of the kind of football I want to watch. We need about 16 players in in the summer by my count. 3 RB 3 LB 2 CB 2 RW 2 LW 2 CM 2 CF

 

You wouldn’t keep Hornby then?

 

Paudie and Evans are still under contract so can’t be released.

 

The ones out of contract who I see the club offering deals to.
Hornby seems to have overtaken ROD
Wood because even if he leaves I believe we would be entitled to some sort of fee.
O'connor versatility comes in to play CB RB and even midfield.
Scales alot of promise in the kid maybe needs to bulk up.
Novak already heard whispers a 12 deal on the table with option of further 12 months.
The rest I don't expect any new offers.

Those in deals wouldn't be surprised to see city try and offload a couple like Rod and Evans.

As for the loanees only Cook will city be interested in

 

We're cutting budgets. Hornby would now command a first teamers salary and O'Donnell ain't gonna want to sit on the bench and neither is Hornby. Can't see us tying up what little budget we have on two keepers.

 

Don't shoot the messenger, only repeating what Sparks has been saying that the big earners are going and that the wage bill will be trimmed. Any players offered new contracts, other than youth players, i would expect to be on reduced terms. They'd have to offer Wood a better deal to get the compo on a transfer and Hornby would command a better deal but the likes of AOC will have to look elsewhere if they want better money. Gotta pay for that new paint on the office walls somehow.

 

Out of the out of contract players I'd only offer a contract to AOC, it's been another poor season and not a lot of candidates over 46 games but he's Player of the Year for me. As for what they pay him I'm not interested, that's between him, the club and his agent. We won't offer him any more than we think he's worth to us.

 

Out of the out of contract players I'd only offer a contract to AOC, it's been another poor season and not a lot of candidates over 46 games but he's Player of the Year for me. As for what they pay him I'm not interested, that's between him, the club and his agent. We won't offer him any more than we think he's worth to us.

 

If he goes who can ROD point at and berate after kicking the post when another shit goal goes in.

 

I don't like the negative passing just to keep possession either but if you think about it a lot of the time it's due to our lack of movement off the ball, unlike a lot the teams we play against. Yes Clarke has probably had his day but we've got the same problem with young Elliot Watt. In a well coached side he would look a lot better, something we will probably find out when he moves to Hull City or whoever has been watching him.

 

We will have to agree to disagree on that one.

 

And the seats

 

I think it’s the age it takes for the defenders to pass the ball forward. By the time they’ve managed to control it and look up, the refs blown the whistle and the opponents are sat in the changing room having their oranges.

 

And when he realises that no other club will offer more he'll sign for us at the last minute and if not ...well so be it..

 

Does that mean we get rid of Callum Cooke for his miss against Salford .

 

Me too but whilst that offer is on the table and he’s dithering, it’s £2k a week we can’t spend elsewhere

 

This has been Watts first full year at league level and experience will teach him when to try the Hollywood pass. He does look as though he can go on to a better level. Time will tell.

 

The first thing with Watt is to work out what his best position is because his skill aren't akin to central defensive midfielder. Second half of the season he became less and less of an influence to a point where he was getting below average marks from Parker every week. Hopefully the end of the season will see him recharge his batteries but at the moment he looks miles off playing at a higher level. And thats coming from someone who rates the lad.

 

There’s a talent in the lad, you can tell he has grown up at a top class academy, I just think he hasn't got a football brain. He needs to learn quickly or spend the rest of his life wondering what could have been.

 

He's got potential but he's also got a long, long way to go.