How many of yesterday's starting line up..

[Harry's Game]

... Will be the starting line up for game one of next season?

Assuming no serious injuries I think certs would be..

Long
Maceverly
Hammond
Whiteman
Sharp

Possibly ..

Flynn
Adams (if his head isn't turned Slew style)

The rest..

Baptiste no chance of signing him permanent
Edgar elsewhere (Basham could play that role)
Brayford. Sold
Done. Sold

Just a little indication of the rebuilding job required this summer and that is without the back up squad players leaving Coutts, JCR etc.

 

[Barney]

It should be:

--------------------Long
Brayford - New - New - McEveley
New --- New - Whiteman (?) - New
--------------Sharp - New

But I don't think it will be.

 

[Bladesman]

If we could keep Edgar and Baptiste that would be good.

We are more likely to get Edgar than Baptiste though.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Hammond has no place in our team, he needs to go.

And for goodness sake don't sell Done, play him right and he's a real assett.

I'm not changing my opinion on the rest of the squad just yet. One swallow doth not make a summer.

 

[Harry's Game]

If we could keep Edgar and Baptiste that would be good.

We are more likely to get Edgar than Baptiste though.

I am all for us showing ambition but it has to be realistic and Baptisite is here to get fit nothing more, there is not a cat in hells chance of a League one side signing him on a permanent deal.

If money is scarce I would not want to spend it on Edgar either, Basham is just as good in the CB role of a three.

 

[Harry's Game]

Hammond has no place in our team, he needs to go.

And for goodness sake don't sell Done, play him right and he's a real assett.

I'm not changing my opinion on the rest of the squad just yet. One swallow doth not make a summer.

Hammond is likely to be player coach here next season.

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

Reckon that if we'll be shaking our money maker at others this summer, then that money maker will be Adams.

Problems: understandable cynicism from support about selling our best young players before we've really seen owt of them, & concern about whether or not all the money will be reinvested; loss of an improving player who's shown already he's a quality finisher.

Advantages: likely income of, what? £1.5m+?, for team restructuring; replacement up-front of a development player (who still needs developing) with more of a fully formed article.

Don't want him to go, not at all, but major surgery's needed & we need money to do it. And Charlton funded their squad redevelopment on the back of the sale of Jenkinson to Arsenal.

In saying that, we've got very rich owners who, if they've got confidence in the manager & his plans, could fund a promotion assault easily without need for this. It's just that we can be pretty sure they won't (post-Clough).

 

[zablade]

Reckon that if we'll be shaking our money maker at others this summer, then that money maker will be Adams.

Problems: understandable cynicism from support about selling our best young players before we've really seen owt of them, & concern about whether or not all the money will be reinvested; loss of an improving player who's shown already he's a quality finisher.

Advantages: likely income of, what? £1.5m+?, for team restructuring; replacement up-front of a development player (who still needs developing) with more of a fully formed article.

Don't want him to go, not at all, but major surgery's needed & we need money to do it. And Charlton funded their squad redevelopment on the back of the sale of Jenkinson to Arsenal.

In saying that, we've got very rich owners who, if they've got confidence in the manager & his plans, could fund a promotion assault easily without need for this. It's just that we can be pretty sure they won't (post-Clough).

All depends if any incoming money does go into the transfer budget and not to that mysterious realm known as "running the club" where the Tevez compo and Murphy money disappeared to

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Reckon that if we'll be shaking our money maker at others this summer, then that money maker will be Adams.

Problems: understandable cynicism from support about selling our best young players before we've really seen owt of them, & concern about whether or not all the money will be reinvested; loss of an improving player who's shown already he's a quality finisher.

Advantages: likely income of, what? £1.5m+?, for team restructuring; replacement up-front of a development player (who still needs developing) with more of a fully formed article.

Don't want him to go, not at all, but major surgery's needed & we need money to do it. And Charlton funded their squad redevelopment on the back of the sale of Jenkinson to Arsenal.

In saying that, we've got very rich owners who, if they've got confidence in the manager & his plans, could fund a promotion assault easily without need for this. It's just that we can be pretty sure they won't (post-Clough).

When have we ever used the money for 'strengthening' correctly though?

When we sold the 2 Kyles for example

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

When have we ever used the money for 'strengthening' correctly though?

When we sold the 2 Kyles for example

There'd need to be a bit of honesty (for once), in full realisation of our position. This is why he's being sold. This is what the money will be used for. And it'd need to be being done with the full approval of the manager, knowing he could positively benefit from the sale, rather than be crippled by it.

If we get all the usual "he said he wanted to go (to further his international prospects, or whatever), we couldn't stand in his way" & the vague, cryptic "the money will be reinvested in the playing squad" bullshit, we'll know it's business as usual, & that relegation will be more likely than promotion.

 

[wizadry]

If we stay in this division then Done is a must keep. You have to keep your best players and build teams around them, that's how you become best in the league. Now I know our board haven't always seen it this way but that's just how it is.

 

[Harry's Game]

You have to keep your best players and build teams around them, that's how you become best in the league.

The board of SUFC have operated the exact opposite of this policy for the last 90 years.

 

[Barney]

To be successful and go up we would need two factors, especially for next season being as a mass recruitment exercise should be taking place.

- Owner(s) willing to spend the money to do it.
- Manager capable of locating and identifying the right players.

All the evidence suggests we have neither to any degree. It will take extreme changes of all pattern, trend and circumstance for us to be in the possession of either of those factors next season.

Therefore, we almost certainly won't go up. And we'll have a number of new players not good enough, the ramifications for which potentially being disastrous i.e. a good few more years in this division or the one below while they're all still under contract.

 

[wizadry]

The board of SUFC have operated the exact opposite of this policy for the last 90 years.

I wouldn't know, I'm 32.