Its an 18 man sqaud, consisting of...
GK : Murphy, Burge
Def : Christie, Adams, Philips, Willis, Clarke
Mid : Thomas, Fleck, Baker, Moussa, Barton, Garner, Loblot, Daniels
Att : Clarke, Wilson
No mentions of : Jennings, McSheff, Edge, Malaga
All part of the master plan - we will play a cunning 3-6-1 formation and out-pass Barcelona with our skill and guile:
Murphy
Christie - Willis - Adams
Baker - Moussa - Thomas - Barton - Fleck - Daniels
Clarke
Subs: Burge, Clarke, Phillips, Lobjoit, Garner, Wilson, A N Other
ps It's a 17 man squad, not 18.
An avg of 73 apps?Just did the maths on the outfield players:
16 players @ average age of just under 21 and average of 73 appearances.
Agree, high wages or not Edge is the best CB at the club. Why exclude him when he can do a job for us? If someone comes in for him then fine, sell him.
I would say someone is more likely to buy him when he's in the team and playing, than sat at home not playing.
How can we justify not using Edge and Malaga when we only have 1 centre back. Pressley pissing me off freezing players out.
Whether he wants to get rid of some players or not, while we are under this embargo he simply has to include these outcast players in the squad.
The other alternative is to throw in some kids who are not ready.
Whether he wants to get rid of some players or not, while we are under this embargo he simply has to include these outcast players in the squad.
The other alternative is to throw in some kids who are not ready.
Agree Stu. They won't be match fit. Just on pure numbers he should have had them ready. Just don't see the sense in it. What happens if Willis is injured? He doesn't seem to get this embargo thing.
Nahh I think Barton is next in line at CB so it's all goodJohn fleck at centre half?
All part of the master plan - we will play a cunning 3-6-1 formation and out-pass Barcelona with our skill and guile:
Murphy
Christie - Willis - Adams
Baker - Moussa - Thomas - Barton - Fleck - Daniels
Clarke
Subs: Burge, Clarke, Phillips, Lobjoit, Garner, Wilson, A N Other
ps It's a 17 man squad, not 18.
Whether he wants to get rid of some players or not, while we are under this embargo he simply has to include these outcast players in the squad.
The other alternative is to throw in some kids who are not ready.
Many a kid's career has been ruined by being thrown into the ring before they are ready.
Did we learn nothing from the dark days of Gary McAllister?
What happened to that fine young talented bunch? Aren't some of them now playing parks football?
Edge did last season he was solid.. I really liked him and with the shortage of players we had I see no alternative to keeping him
To be fair, Edge was a bit error prone. A fans favourite, yes. A trier, yes. Solid... not quite but pretty decent.
Also, if I'd been cast aside and then was asked to fill in because we were short, I'd take that opportunity with both hands and feet and probably my head too in order to prove to the manager he was wrong. Pressley has shown he can change his mind, as he did with Jordan Clarke.
Tom Bates
Ben Mackey
Mark Noon
Eddie Stanford
Craig Pead
Robert Betts
Craig Pead
Avun Jephcott
David Pipe.
Yep, let's throw in kids who aren't ready to step up.
To be fair, they probably weren't good enough to make it at a decent level anyway - most youngsters don't make it. Pipe and Pead (prior to injury) had a decent league career.
Yes I know.
But then by the same token how does that make it right to suddenly throw the current crop of kids in at the deep end? They might be good enough, they might not.
Throwing them in early though could have a big detrimental effect on their would be careers.
An avg of 73 apps?
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