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All good shouts, depending on finance. I'd take Cook, but by all accounts he was on a big wage at Mansfield. If we're talking 3k per week or more, I think we can do better for that money. I'd really like us to have more pace up front - its been a long time since we had any. We also need to use the loan market better. there's no point using it to bring in filler like Burrell or Samuels. We need to tempt a couple of players of real quality. I'd like to see Hossanah come back, he definitely had something about him.

 

Is that your own competition?

 

Let what go I am simply posting this from sky sports and making no comment s

 

It makes no difference if we have the O'Connors in some sky team of the season. We finished 15th and Anthony has gone now. Time to move forward.

 

And POC wasn't even our best centre half, never mind the whole league's.

 

What do you think are Hornby's glaring weaknesses? He seems pretty solid to me.

 

Too old and far too smart to be embarrassed son!

 

This is huge for me, we absolutely need to stop signing players who manage 20 games a season if they're lucky. Started with glass back Scannell where the planets had to align in a very specific way for him to be available on a saturday, to guys like Zeli where seeing them in a city shirt became an urban legend. Don't care how good they are, if they're in the treatment room they're no use to anyone.

 

Non will be a big loss simple as that.

 

Well, your thoughts are that of someone who has no vision. Staunton is playing CB and should be instead of Paudie or Canavan. I like Paudie, but he's been here throughout the club's failures, but I'd keep him in the squad. Canavan is decent at this level, but he's older.

Watt... Jesus, the lad is 20/21 years old. He has struggled this season, but to let him go, wow.

 

Because some of our fans hold on to anything at City like a comfort blanket. Same as suggesting Trueman and Sellars should be given their old jobs back. Now they've had a piece of professional management they might not want to go back to training kids.

 

A short list? Id say your retained list is probably double the size of most on here

 

Hornby, Canavan, Sutton, Watt, Vernham, Crankshaw, Cooke, Cook, Novak and the youngsters.

AOC - Time to move on, he’s cursed.
POC - Touch and go whether to keep him. Hot headed but gives 100% and could learn a lot from Canavan.
Wood - offers next to nowt from an attacking sense and struggles to stop the ball coming into the box.
Evans - complete let down. No leadership skills to say he was captain at Portsmouth , poor in possession. Pay him off.
If Clarke or Donaldson are offered contracts we really are skint.
Ismail, Prichard and the rest not good enough.

 

Clarke already does some coaching at City with the junior set up if i'm not mistaken, something like the u16s.

 

The keeper situation is a difficult one. Hornby will get a deal as a first choice in league 2 no problem, he ain't a bench keeper. And at 24 has less miles on the clock than O'Donnell and will be on less money. Sparks has a dilemma, i think he'd like to keep Hornby as he would be cheaper but offloading ROD will be a problem.

 

Yeah he's been pretty consistent throughout the season. He's also the better defender of the two O'connors.

 

oh god we'll never get him away now

 

Heard from a good source that AOC is the only player out of contract who has been offered a new one but it’s unlikely he’ll accept as it’s a 50% cut.

 

I'm wondering how fair it is for us to be drawing up our preferred retained lists when these players are playing in accordance with the "Chuckle Brothers" manual of coaching "to me-to you" - and then back to Hornby to hoof it long. We've wingers playing on their wrong side, a lone striker with no support and a totally negative mindset instilled into the squad.

We've all had a boss at work who issues instructions that are clearly unpopular and incorrect, causing consequent disdain and disinterest amongst their staff.

These players must be totally peed off going in for training and reporting for match days, to play a system and style that's doing them no favours. They look demoralised and the performances reflect that. Remember, they are being coached by two individuals who have no professional playing experience.

We could be clearing out players who've been stifled by not being allowed to express themselves, or allowed to play to their strengths. Certainly, playing a winger on the wrong side, meaning they're constantly turning infield, rather than getting to the byline makes little sense, yet we do it constantly.

All I'm saying is we may be doing some of these players an injustice.