A clear out is un-necessary and unwanted

Successful teams build by appointing 3 or 4 new players every season.

The back page of the Chronicle is saying up to 20 (TWENTY !!!) new players to be signed for next season

For years now Barnsley has tried to build more or less a new team every season...........this just doesn't work!!!

By cutting back the dead wood and with a few additions the current squad should do well next season.
The following is who I would try to keep and who I would let go:

Steele
Dibble
Turner

Hassell.........to leave (or become part of coaching team)
Ramage
Kennedy.......to leave
Nyatanga
Cranie
Mvoto

O'Brien
Dawson
Woods .......to leave
Lawrence.......to leave
Frimpong.......to leave
Jennings
Digby
Cywka
Mellis .......to leave
Etuhu
McCourt
Rose
O'Grady
Noble-Lazarus


Abbott
McHale
Shillito
Cofie
Oates Sousa

 

we are in trouble if we keep most of that *****

 

agreed...bag of....let most of em go...worthless losers

start again and if it takes two years so be it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,the current lot have demonstrated this season that they are clearly not good enough.

ta ta to the lot of em

hth

 

Getting rid of the "worthless losers" and signing twenty new players is a huge gamble that probably wouldn't work. Most of the new signings would turn out to be ***** anyway (that's football for you!) so instead of a squad full of "*****" we'd then have a squad full of "*****" that has never played together.

I'd be happier with smaller changes. Get rid of the worst few and the ones that we can't afford to keep, and try to get decent replacements for them.

 

this how to pick a reyt football team

and how to play football at its best



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nDHupVqVw

 

We will sign nearer 10 players. If a few want to leave or don't sign back up the total we sign will still probably be nearer 15 than 20.

 

I'm afraid it is

There's a defeatist, mentally weak attitude that has pervaded the club for a few seasons now. We are too easy to play against over a season. They will always be the odd game(s) where we look to have come to terms with things, but generally we lack backbone, strength of character and fighting spirit.

Flitcroft's 5 months last season was a once in a decade spell of results. If it did any good by encouraging us to sign up the same squad that finished 4th bottom it finally gave the lie to the idea that the squad was capable of sustaining a full season at this level.

If we (long term) want to come back capable of establishing ourselves at this level then they need shifting on. The lot of them.

 

Re: I'm afraid it is

Agree. I would keep Jennings ogrady big jean Digby rose possibly Steele, job and RNl and that's it

 

I'd hope Mellis stays. Wilson never used him right but in League 1 he'll be a class above.

I don't want attacking midfielders to defend. He's not lazy like some say, he gets about but our fans expect him to get about tracking down like Dawson. Some fans love to criticise a certain type of player.

He's not a central midfielder, but played directly behind the attack pushing up we'll not get better without spending money haven't got.

 

i think i heard on radio sheff that 15 players are out of contract this summer.

Maybe that's why the Chronicle is saying we'll sign 20 new players this season?

Signing that many in one go is a big gamble but one which we may have no choice in.

 

Not personal, like. But are you f@cking for real!? Don't ever want to see him again in a reds shirt, ever!!!

And hopefully I won't as I'm cricketing tomorrow.

 

Abso****inglutely.

Not enough winners. And winning isn't demanded from above...

 

Why don't you put x percentage of your own money into the club etc etc zzzzzz

 

This. Mellis is the biggest waste of space at the club and should never play for us again. He couldn't be arsed in the championship so why would he bother in the third division.

 

As long as Dawson runs around achieving less than zero like the dozy chuff he is that's all we need, eh Mario?

 

Dawson doesn't have half the talent that Mellis has but what good is talent when you can't be arsed to do anything and you don't give a toss for the club, the fans or your teammates.

 

We will found out how much Dawson cares once the police let us know.

 

If he's found guilty he'll be dealt with but until then he should be presumed innocent.

 

The opinion that Mellis doesn't track back is myth. Not good at it, but he does.

But I'd want Mellis hanging around further as a player to give the ball to in space.

To say he's s waste of space shows a lack of knowledge of the game. And also why we are were we will be in August. Mellis when used right is an asset, if not for him we'd be in league one now.

It's like playing Dawson up front etc, don't see why some fail to see Wilson plays him out of position.

Saying that we could have been celebrating promotion instead of relegation.

 

Depends really, I've definitely seen him on the pitch in certain games, not supporting in the attacks, not getting back to defend and not showing when the ball is near him, begging the question, what is he playing for?
Personally, I feel he's reacting the wrong way to realising his stellar opportunity has passed him by.
Shame though, a different attitude would have seen him going where Drinkwater is now heading I reckon, albeit with a different club admittedly.