Big Job For Slade In The Summer?

We haven't finished a million miles away from the play offs and I think without Bignot's pissing about we'd have been a top 7 side.

I'm sure Slade will sort out our lack of width. I imagine we will be fit, organised and dedicated. Slade has already targeted the top 7 and I think he'll probably deliver it. I hope the board back him sufficiently.

Quoted from headingly_mariner

We haven't finished a million miles away from the play offs and I think without Bignot's pissing about we'd have been a top 7 side.

I'm sure Slade will sort out our lack of width. I imagine we will be fit, organised and dedicated. Slade has already targeted the top 7 and I think he'll probably deliver it. I hope the board back him sufficiently.

I tend to agree but very puzzled why RS picked Comley yesterday to play out wide a selection that had people on here advocating that MB was clueless a few weeks back !!!!

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

I tend to agree but very puzzled why RS picked Comley yesterday to play out wide a selection that had people on here advocating that MB was clueless a few weeks back !!!!

I am puzzled why he was picked ahead of Bolly or even in the side when there isn't a cat in hells chance that he'll be here next  season--well I hope not--there will be far better players available and hope Slade has set his sights already. The tree needs a lot of pruning

Bignot brought in players he was familiar with, from non league, and the midlands. Some were not up to the jump to league football. If they get a full pre-season they might be fit enough and improve, or might not.

Slade and Wilko have come from the championship, and have a strong knowledge of championship players. I bet they will be studying the released players lists to see who they might be able to persuade to come here, and if so, these players will be of a better quality than some of the non-league players that MB brought in.

I think there are some way over the top ideas here. The squad will be dictated by the finance available and those that think we are going to pay off 3, 4 or 5 players  or more are deluded.

PH kept to budget last summer (which IMO aided the departure of certain players) and those brought in will be on wages that are not crazy for our level.

I don't expect any of the loan players to stay, especially Vose. He just wouldn't fit into a Sladeball side.

I'd expect RS to work with the majority of what he has got with midfield being his biggest problem.

Summerfield,  Browne, Berrett, Mccallister, Clements, Bolawinra, Osborne with a decent winger and midfield enforcer brought in as a minimum is probably not such a bad collection providing all are fit and available.

Infact most of the above have had good games in which when the midfield has worked well we have beaten some top teams. Pre season under Slade and a defined game plan (didn't like Hurst game plan and unfortunately Biggies got lost between the Humber Royal and the BP) may even allow them to be more consistent.

A well drilled midfield will help the defence out and the  attack. Besides a new goal keeper (please, please, please) and maybe Davies out, Andrew to go if we can't persuade him to stay I wouldn't expect any major shake up. Likewise up front maybe some pace in to play off Vernon but not major changes.

Evolution not revolution.

We learnt last time in this division that bringing players in then paying them off every other month is not a good way of doing business.


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#sortitslade

He doesn't have to sign an absolute shed load of players, he just needs to sign 3 or 4 top quality players. A goalkeeper, a left sided winger, a genuine goal scorer and an athletic centre half. He then needs decent cover at full back, holding midfield and out wide Probably max 7 players needed. The squad needs trimming. For me McKeown, Davies, Gowling, Gunning, D. Jones, Yussuf, Comley, Maxwell, Summerfield, Chambers and Vose can all go in some capacity.

Vose has incredible ability but is just too slow and languid to make an impact on games regularly. Sadly I think Dis has to be released as well, I am so happy that I am not the man who has to tell him that. My favourite Town player ever.

That leaves us with Mills, Boyce, Clements, Osborne, McAllister, Berrett, Bolarinwa, Browne, Asante, Vernon, Jones and with a bit of luck Andrew, Pearson and Collins. I'd also try and sign Dyson, I can see the potential and I think he could be a really good player. So hopefully that leaves us with 15 players and then 7 to sign (as I mentioned earlier.) With the players released upgraded and the non league players having got to grips with league football I think we could be really competitive!

Quoted from lowerfindus

I think there are some way over the top ideas here. The squad will be dictated by the finance available and those that think we are going to pay off 3, 4 or 5 players  or more are deluded.

PH kept to budget last summer (which IMO aided the departure of certain players) and those brought in will be on wages that are not crazy for our level.

I don't expect any of the loan players to stay, especially Vose. He just wouldn't fit into a Sladeball side.

I'd expect RS to work with the majority of what he has got with midfield being his biggest problem.

Summerfield,  Browne, Berrett, Mccallister, Clements, Bolawinra, Osborne with a decent winger and midfield enforcer brought in as a minimum is probably not such a bad collection providing all are fit and available.

Infact most of the above have had good games in which when the midfield has worked well we have beaten some top teams. Pre season under Slade and a defined game plan (didn't like Hurst game plan and unfortunately Biggies got lost between the Humber Royal and the BP) may even allow them to be more consistent.

A well drilled midfield will help the defence out and the  attack. Besides a new goal keeper (please, please, please) and maybe Davies out, Andrew to go if we can't persuade him to stay I wouldn't expect any major shake up. Likewise up front maybe some pace in to play off Vernon but not major changes.

Evolution not revolution.

We learnt last time in this division that bringing players in then paying them off every other month is not a good way of doing business.


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#sortitslade

Agree with this, maybe we should get season tickets on sale pretty quickly.

At the Fans Forum JF said they wait for the right moment (or words to that effect) Herts. I can't say I agree with that.

Season ticket holders should be getting their renewal packs within a month or more of the season left. They in general are not likely to be swayed by a last minute run of form or a signing "that will make the hairs on your neck stand up". Having witnessed a full season they have more likely to have come to a conclusion yes or no regards renewal way before depending on what they have got out of the season.

When you listen to Radio Hull all the other local sporting teams start early with their sale's and we always lag behind. I wonder which one of us is in the wrong??

The non chairman will tell us what to think.

Slade has a lot of work to do bringing in the right players and club staff if the club intentions are real of getting promotion, the truth will be in the budget won't it Mr Fenty.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Agree with this, maybe we should get season tickets on sale pretty quickly.

Hahahahaha...thats a cracker