Top targets for next season

Priority

Flitcroft, mellon & scott to sign up
Followed by Chris o'grady.
I'd also like to see Tudguy return.
And a big influential centre half

Departures.
I'd let McNulty, Harewood and Edwards move on...

 

Agreed with that.

McNulty has had a poor season, and he knows it, but he is a better player than this season suggests. Keep him, unless we get a silly offer ie. Leicester last season.

 

Agreed with that.

McNulty has had a poor season, and he knows it, but he is a better player than this season suggests. Keep him, unless we get a silly offer ie. Leicester last season.

 

I'd like us to keep everybody apart from Edwards, who I actually think is a good player, but he's always injured, and McNulty who I just don't rate.

Harewood I'd offer another one year deal, but I'd be honest with him and tell him he wouldn't be my first choice striker. I do think he can still do a job should someone get injured. Obviously, he may not want that.

 

I reckon McNulty's got a role to play. Write off of a season but a Flicker inspired revival to follow. Add some consistency to his first year's performance and he'll be a good player

 

I can't see anything in his game that would be useful to us. Apart from a decent couple of months, I couldn't see it in his first season with us either.

I know that not rating a particular player makes you a bad fan, but there you go.

I've been wrong plenty of times before though.

 

I like Marlon, but we need a different option upfront, and we can't really afford to have more than four strikers on the books. He had a good spell upfront with Dagnall, but his goal return isn't good enough. Dagnall and O'Grady (hopefully) should be our main two, and Scotland is useful for the final stages when we're chasing a goal.

I can see Edwards and Done (when he returns from Hibernian) leaving. Not too sure about McNulty. We need a better, commanding center half, but I think Flitcroft rates him.

 

Not a bad fan at all, just a different take on things. Interesting that after he won player's player last year, this year it went to Cranie. The player's don't half love a centre back

 

I'd forgotten all about Done. I'd let him go too.

 

I,d keep the same management team !THANKS ! Give marlon another 1yr contract. I would like to see posh player Tomlin come to oakwell ,fine player .

 

I was astonished when McNutly won the player's player of the year last season. I can understand why Cranie got it this year as he has been excellent since Flitcroft took over (as have a number of others) but he had a number of dodgy games in the first half of the season. I thought the fans got it right this time around as Perkins has been our most consistent player over the 9 months. When we were bad he was still doing OK.

I didn't vote. Not because I thought all our players were crap, but because I thought the good results we achieved were down to team performances rather than individual brilliance. We haven't got too many great individuals, but we've got a cracking team. I would have liked to have voted for a man of the season rather than player then I could have given my vote to Flitcroft. He's been the single biggest influence this season and the reason why our fortunes changed so dramatically.

 

Can we afford to pay the sort of wages Marlon is on just to keep him as a bit part player? I'd imagine he'd be on more than some at the club who we would get a lot more game time out of. I like Marlon and he's probably good to have around the dressing room but it all depends on his wages.

I'd keep Scotland just because he's a fox I the box type player. He doesn't rely on his physical attributes as much as Marlon does so will probably still be able to do a job at an older age. All the reports are that he isn't in it for the money. He did turn down a wage increase at Ipswich.

 

Possibly not. The decision would have to be made with the budget in mind.

 

That sums it up for me. If Scotland not on big money would like to keep him as well. His experience has to be invaluable to some of the young lads
like Rose.

 

Sentiment aside:

I'd let Edwards and Done go, for obvious reasons.
McNulty is'nt going to be our 1st choice, and I'd rather see him released to free up wages for a proper partner for Cranie (Foster and Hassell on the bench)
I love Marlon but I'm not sure he's quite good enough, and I think we need another goalscorer to play with O'Grady as 1st choice. His wages are probably pretty hefty too. Sad but I'd let him go.
Kennedy? Golbourne is 1st choice left back, and I'm not sure Kennedy's quite up to scratch at CB. He'd only be a reserve, and with RNL apparently becoming a wing back he can cover for goldy. Maybe let him go
Cwyka always looks dangerous to me, but if Flicker doesn't seem to rate him then we might as well get shut

 

We're probably going to struggle to get the 25 goal striker that everyone craves, the sort of Glenn Murray type, so what we really need is slightly more depth to the squad as it only takes a couple of injuries and suspensions to really disrupt the side. It's a fine balance though because having too many bodies can create friction and disrupt the team in other ways.

Golbourne getting injured messed us up as Flicker decided he could no longer play the same system without him, we had a few dodgy results because of this and got better when changing back to the 3-5-2/5-3-2 or whatever. We'd have been safe ages ago if he hadn't got injured I reckon.

As for players to let go. Tough one on McNulty - he's not a bad player he just lacks confidence, over-thinks every thing because of this, and as a result makes mistakes. But look at Wiseman - never seen a player get as much stick as him, a few months later and everyone loves him, proving he can in fact play at centre-half.

Edwards - Always thought he was a good player, for some reason he has been behind even the young 'ens in the pecking order so I'd probably expect to see him leave.

Harewood - If we could afford to have someone like him as an understudy then I'd give him another year. He might prefer to move on and get first team football though.

Scotland - Not getting any younger and I suspect he is on a fair whack as well, again if we can afford to keep him for his impact-sub role then I'd keep hold. Would choose him over Harewood if it was a choice between the two.

I fear we will lose a couple of players that we really don't want to, but I wouldn't say anyone was irreplaceable though? Saying that there aren't many players of Perkins' type out there and he is integral to the way we play interrupting the opposition midfield and he's good on the ball as well.

We really need to sign O'Grady though, almost everything we've done well in the last few months has gone through him - not sure if a fee was agreed when he initially signed on loan, hope so as I fear there could be other clubs (such as Donny, Huddersfield) interested in him. Of course it's down to the player where he goes, even though we've stayed up and are seemingly on the up I wouldn't expect us to have much money to spend next year.