Pretty much exactly my thoughts too. I prefer DKE as an attacking fullback. Defensively I'd say they are 50:50. And Willis has never convinced me in the middle of a back four (which presumably is the way Robins will set us up).I like JW but I find he plays a lot at RB taking DKE spot. I would much rather see DKE start, and in (what will hopefully be) a league 2 promotion push, I think we can find a better, more experienced league 2 lump of a centre half. So personally I'd sell.
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I like JW but I find he plays a lot at RB taking DKE spot. I would much rather see DKE start, and in (what will hopefully be) a league 2 promotion push, I think we can find a better, more experienced league 2 lump of a centre half. So personally I'd sell.
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had slade brought in willis at xmass you would be saying keep keep keep me thinks
I don't think I'd be overly concerned about any of our players going in pre season as long as we weren't short like last year.
i can see thats what u want steve, a tottaly new team because you are still blaiming last season on players solely.
robins showed they can win many games in league 1. so we should only get rid if there is really an issue, not just because they are tarnished.
It's gonna largely be a new side anyway. Regardless what I think
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100% keep. People cried out for a "lump of a centreback" last year, we got Clarke and guess what, he was fucking shit. That's the last thing we need again.
If I were Robins I'd take the captaincy off him and lift that weight from his shoulders from last year (it's obviously going to Doyle) and try and convince him to stay and play out his last year for us in a push for automatically going back up. I think Willis alongside McDonald will be a decent partnership for us at League 2 level. And his versatility is a plus for us.
I doubt he'll be with us at the start of the season though as I think we'll cash in on him as one of our saleable assets.
Disagree awayI'm sorry but I disagree.
Nathan Clarke was exactly what we needed at that time, just a more mobile quicker one would of been nice. He did everything we had been needing in winning everything in the air, and added the vital experience and commanding voice at the back.
Yes he had some very poor games too and can be faulted for a few goals but if Bradford are releasing him in January Gary Cahill you ain't getting....
What we did get was a league one experienced head who battled 80% of the time he was here and went toe to toe with the physical target men other clubs threw at us and gave Bradford's Charlie Wyke nothing all game, and helped see us over the line in other games too.
Like I say that's the market we're in and type of player we will ideally need again for league two.
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What we missed last year was Stokes, he commands that back four for us. If we keep hold of him then have Willis, McDonald and DKE alongside him that'll be a back four that should see us out of this division imo.
Sell him to Rotherham for £750,000 and reinvest it
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We must've watched a different Nathan Clarke though. I expected a leader when Slade brought him in, someone that would coach the players around him and gel the back four together. That I'm afraid didn't happen, now I'm not stupid enough to think that he's solely responsible for that, he obviously isn't. But I spent the first half of last season being told by SW88's mate that we needed a brute of a CB to come in, someone that knows the division etc etc. Then we got him and we were still shit and in my eyes he didn't improve the team one jot.
His passing was poor, he was too slow, his positional sense not good enough and I don't remember one stand out game from him.
What we missed last year was Stokes, he commands that back four for us. If we keep hold of him then have Willis, McDonald and DKE alongside him that'll be a back four that should see us out of this division imo.
The club currently has 3 (not out of contract) sellable assets in Cian Harries, Jordan Willis and Ben Stevenson. I would be surprised if them 3 are still at the club at the start of the season. I see Ben going to a Championship club, possibly Brentford may try to swoop for him at a cut price after strong interest in January. Cian to the Premier League and Jordan to Rotherham/lower Championship side.
Not sure how much they bid in January but their manager said they had two club record bids in for him. Club record fee was £500,000.
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