Stayers:

Bogdan **

Vela

Threlkeld

Ream

Dervite

Baptiste

Taylor

Wheater

Davies

Pratley**

Trotter

Gudjohnsen

Clayton

Clough

 

Leavers:

Lornegan

Mills

 

Moxey

Feeney

Danns

Hall

Spearing

Eaves (both em)

Davies C

Twatstick

Heskey

 

Needs:

(a fucking miracle)

Replacement for ALF,

Replacement for Bannon

Replacement for **Bogdan

Replacement for **Pratley

And some others you will find / read about all summer in the ITK transfer thread

Edited May 3, 201511 yr by Ratwhite

No problems with lonners mills or davies I think they all did well on the whole when able or given the opportunity I can see the thinking in letting mills go we need to start again defensively we've been dog shit at the back for years now and wheater is better

i know nowt about woodland but from what i hear, its a shame hes not fulfilled his promise

Just hope hes not planning on playing ream centre half

So back four next season

 

 

New signing please/Vela        Wheater     Baptiste     Ream

But iver realised im probably just talking bollocks because hes going to play a back three

But iver realised im probably just talking bollocks because hes going to play a back three

Unfortunately he is and if rumours are to be believed we're signing Kuipers who looks handy. For me the ideal team after this summer looks like -

 

Bogdan/Amos

 

Baptiste, Kuipers, Wheater, Ream

 

Pratley, Vela/Davies/Austin

 

New Rw please, Clough/Davies, Clayton

 

And fuck knows at ST

Meh - we can put together a defence that, if not outstanding, should be competent if organised properly.

Threlkeld/White Baptiste. Wheater Moxey/Ream.

 

Full backs aren't great, but they don't need to be world-beaters. Give them a decent run in a stable side with a midfield that gives them cover, and they'll be ok.

 

And I, for one, am glad we're offering a new contract to Heskey - we need a hate-figure/scapegoat to take the blame. An on-field partner for Gartside. It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it.

 

Oh well, onwards and, if not upwards, at least not too far downwards.

Meh - we can put together a defence that, if not outstanding, should be competent if organised properly.

Threlkeld/White Baptiste. Wheater Moxey/Ream.

 

Full backs aren't great, but they don't need to be world-beaters. Give them a decent run in a stable side with a midfield that gives them cover, and they'll be ok.

 

And I, for one, am glad we're offering a new contract to Heskey - we need a hate-figure/scapegoat to take the blame. An on-field partner for Gartside. It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it.

 

Oh well, onwards and, if not upwards, at least not too far downwards.

Yep....also Dervite is fine in a 4 man defence, Taylor looks promising, we're supposed to have Kuipers signed, & with either Bogdan or Amos in goal we've a defence good enough for this division so long as we play a back 4......it all turned to shite when we tried to play with a 3 man defence that none of the players seemed comfortable with.

 

IMO what we're missing is a big bruiser defensive midfielder who can give us a bit of cover in front of the defence.....I'd hate to see us being bullied again next season.

But iver realised im probably just talking bollocks because hes going to play a back three

 

Even though he said that he was only playing a back three last season because of injuries?

I've just seen Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been released... I'd give it a go if he's on under that £10K that we all seem to think should be our max

i wonder why Bristol City have let him go, unless he wants more than they can offer

Even though he said that he was only playing a back three last season because of injuries?

 

 

Must of missed that. When did he say that?

Illes suggested we've seen the last of the three at the back on that LOV podcast he appeared on

Woodland and Lester were two of the ones that you would have thought would make it in our outstanding youth team of a couple of years back. Woodland in particular is a disappointment for me because he has a tremendous shot on him and was an England youth international. Who knows his knee injury may have taken a lot out of him.

Must of missed that. When did he say that?

He said it when he first started using it & at the time you could see his point, even though at the time we had a number of defenders also out on loan.

 

However, he also carried on playing about with it after that & as I indicated at Forest away, when there was no need to play it, it did seem to be becoming a preferred formation of his. With disastrous results due to our current squad being ill equipped in their talents to carry it off.

 

In a later interview he finally admitted he thought it a good formation, having played it under Martin O'Neill & used it at Celtic. A formation that still left you playing 2 up top, that had fallen away with more teams playing a 4-3-3 formation.

 

I'm hoping he's put it to bed, I fear he won't. As we discussed at the time, I can't see it working in this league.

Woodland and Lester were two of the ones that you would have thought would make it in our outstanding youth team of a couple of years back. Woodland in particular is a disappointment for me because he has a tremendous shot on him and was an England youth international. Who knows his knee injury may have taken a lot out of him.

 

 

Jesus, we don't get many of those!