Wish List For Next Season

[WonderGoals]

1) An experienced, dependable Gk on a perm contract.

2) A natural CB to play alongside Evans.

3) A striker to rival Whitehall. A proper effective alternative.

3) Looks like Roberts is on his way with his post match reaction. A good replacement for him, not a direct one though of course due to budget restraints. Luke Brennan looked good last season for Buxton. Probably the kind of market we’ll be in.

4) Ewing will be off. So a good alternative needed.

5) Westbrook on a perm contract ?

[iron64]

Farrell on a season long loan would be good business

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cassidystash

[lesgeo]

Lot of rumours last season about Roberts going but …
It could easily cost us 8 or 10 places if it were to happen. IMHO – without him and Ewing, in order to challenge, there’d have to be 4 or 5 better players coming in than we have at the moment.

[WonderGoals]

Roberts was in tears waving after the game so expect him to be going. I can’t really say I’m surprised. Ewing has had a contract in front of him for what seems like half a season and didn’t sign, so expect them both to move on.

Beestin, westbrook and Rowley would be strong and Ewing went off the boil for a quite a while anyway.

Roberts will be the tricky one to even attempt to replace. We’ll be in the loan market/NLN for a replacement. There are some really good wide attackers at that level.

Case of would they settle ?. Look at Smith second time around, it looks like we’ve signed a different Smith. Looks more Delia than Connor.

I get he was playing as a CM in Scotland, but that signing has been absolutely horrific. Tyrell Sellars replacement ?????

[ironfromafar]

Over on the clappers channel along with all the expected gushing comments on the season i see Poz Dave with his inner circle sauces stating Ewing is definately leaving and going on Roberts post match comments he is too..
Recruitment hasnt been the best in recent years so without quality replacements next season may well be a lot less challenging and Butler must build a competitive team or im sure his heroics of NLN promotion and NL play offs will be forgotten.

Still not a Butler fan and thought his choices for the bench were off the mark for such a huge game Scales , Barrows Rose and a less than fit Boyce included ?? but no Smith Brogan or even Beck more attacking options

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alcazar

[WonderGoals]

Brogan would have been the one I would have had on the bench. We got completely dominated in midfield yesterday, but the biggest culprit was JB as he simply couldn’t defend. No idea what he was doing. 2nd goal he went walkabouts and then fell asleep and nearly gave a goal away when a rochdale player ran alongside him to take the ball from him. Comical really.

Where did this positivity dave spawn from ?. All of a sudden he just popped out of nowhere.

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[Awaywego]

As much has I luv Whitehall he doesn’t last a full season without injuries probably carrying one yesterday, when he went down there was no waiting they just got Howe stripped off.
Not far off there WG imo, but I fear the goalie will be the cheap and cheerful Rory Watson again.

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alcazar

[lesgeo]

Louis and Rory – would be quite a respectable pairing.
Would still prefer a Northampton player who is not unknown to us to be in the mix.
Has AB moved on from his early season praise for a certain young GK.

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alcazar

[Deereyme66]

Roberts all but said the other day on Humberside he’d probably be leaving if we didn’t secure promotion. Time for him to step up a division or two.

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Sanfran49

[cassidystash]

Take out Roberts and Whitehall and we struggle to score. How many goals have our much lauded MF of Ewing Westbrook & Rowley scored this season? Possibly less than one MF would be expected to contribute. I agree with WG (rare) that Brogan should have been an option yesterday and maybe even Beck if Whitehall’s fitness was not assured. Howe & Beestin next in scorers list I think and neither are regular starters. A lack of goals from our back 4 also doesn’t help, I know it’s not their primary function but the forwards are expected to help in defence.

[Ironawe]

Need to build from the back, our goal difference and goals conceded was no match for most of the top 6. Don’t want to see any of the keepers here that started last season. Need at least two solid CB’s and also need creativity in midfield with an AM who can contribute goals. Some of our defending over the whole season has been very questionable. Something I would expect better from Butler with his defensive capabilities. Throughout the season the two best players were Ewing and Roberts, we still have a lot of dross in the squad.

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Awaywego

[TheJuryeffsOut]

If Rose resumes his previous form then that is RB sorted. I’d keep Barrows as he can also play CB. If Belehouan is out of contract I’d release him.
I think Westbrooke will get other offers so hopefully we can sign him. There’s got to be a decent CB available somewhere.
Ewing and Roberts will be hard to replace but they aren’t world beaters, we’ve known the likelihood of them going so hopefully AB already has some ideas.

[cassidystash]

Rose came to us as a CB but, as with JB, hasn’t had a chance to show what he can do there. Could be the answer? I also thought he had a decent game when he had a go in MF.

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TheJuryeffsOut, alcazar

[Sanfran49]

Less tantrums !

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Awaywego

[scunnymatt88]

A couple of players we should be looking at in my opiniom are Jordan young from Torquay left footed winger loves to cut inside and shoot and shaquille gwengwe has scored 42 goals for Poole Town surely worth a look. Id also bring Smith back into the centre of midfield where he played for Hamilton rather than looking like a rabbit in headlights on the wing. Keeper wise I think we need to get right this time instead of playing hokey cokey. Got to feel for Roberts he’s gave absolutely everything and carried us at times, if rochdale end up going up i wouldnt be surprised if he ends up there.

[cassidystash]

Based on yesterday he wouldn’t get in their team.

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