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On the other hand we've lost two of our most suitable proven players in that kind of system in the last 6 months (Jones' best position was wingback even though it limited his own output, he did a lot of work in that role and had a good engine and Dijksteel for all his faults was a decent right...

Kind of, but it was pretty wasted with where he played and where he gave away fouls, non-threatening situations where it genuinely seemed more out of laziness than nastiness on his part. Needless bookings and just allowing the other side to control tempo more.

Danks is the only name in the frame really excites me. He's only 39, clearly well-regarded in the game for the variety of roles he's already had and been sought for, and I think there's a reasonable argument that he was the tactical nous behind our best football under Carrick. Is he without...

IMO we acted too slowly and the review (and length thereof) shows dithering by the club when all the evidence was there to be seen and observed at the end of the season and the approach and strategy should have been devised during the tail end of the season. I think taking so long over it and...

I actually thought he was an improvement on Steffen for his first season, he seemed less of a bombscare on the ball and was strong on claiming crosses and commanding the area. He clearly wasn't particularly special as a shotstopper but the rest made up for it. Last season though, he regressed in...

You could see some of Whittaker's qualities - he's got a good touch, put a few really good crosses on a plate (that our forwards should have done better with a couple of times), and clearly has a vicious shot. But he doesn't have the pace of Doak or Jones to play the same way out on the right...

I think he's a good player and a tidy finisher generally but I'd be worried if we were as reliant on him going into the season as we were at the end of last season. He needs competition / rotation of around his own level at the 9 spot, or at least a solid backup plus another threat from the '3'...

Just going back to the article itself, as well as being deliberately misleading clickbait it is utterly dreadfully written - surprised it's from Paylor. On the actual negotiations - bizarre that it's still an open issue at this point and more dithering vacillation from the club alongside the...

Absolute bloody fib though isn't it.

Navel-gazing after narrowly missing out on the playoffs yet again.

I think the local media would probably have had enough of a nod to know not to run stories like the Rob Edwards link in that case though, which makes me think there might genuinely not be a decision yet. I think you'd also have some sort of press / media facing "here's what we've learned and...

Schroedinger's Carrick.

I mean if the club have fannied on this long, we've already had the released players lists, transfer dealings etc will be progressing elsewhere, it would just look like we've dithered on if we sack him now. Which I wouldn't put past us, but shocking indecisiveness nonetheless.

Dare I say the daftarse conspiracy theories are amplified to splash mud and make the actual issues that have been studied about contrails and climate change also look crackpot by association...

Nuge did a whole lot of important work off the ball / defending for that team in a way that is a weakness to Conway's game IMO. Conway clearly the much better goalscorer (at the comparable times with us at least) but although that team's forwards were less prolific than the prior season, Nuge...