Assessing Players

Where does Slade start? five games and just under a month to assess the players. As Fenty said in his RH interview we are overloaded. we have 30 odd players and ideally we need to cut it down to 22. Now most of us could explain to Slade in about five minutes who are good players and who are crap, who should go and who should stay, although most of us will have differing views about that. Does he not renew contracts and allow those players to move on to save money, or does he resign those that want to stay and pay up players contracts of the ones that both Hurst and Bignot signed that we know we are stuck with for another year or two? We may have some cash left from the Omar money to do that. Will he want to recall the loan players (if he can) to have a look at them, i would presume he will. Will he send back loanees however much he would like to keep them?
Difficult decisions, but whatever he does, he is sure to incur the wrath of a percentage of fans.  

I dare say he will sit down and watch a few full game videos of recent games, it should give him a bit of an idea. As you say have a look at training and have words with the backroom staff such as Dave Moore to get an idea from him. We may have to put up with a few games of player rotation so that he can see them in action. You would imagine the loan players may not get a look in. But on the other hand I could be spouting b0ll0cks.

Assume he will read the Fishy, make Gunning skipper on the basis of appeasing the fans and build our team around Berrett's attacking flair and never say die spirit!!

Quoted from bluebottle

I dare say he will sit down and watch a few full game videos of recent games, it should give him a bit of an idea. As you say have a look at training and have words with the backroom staff such as Dave Moore to get an idea from him. We may have to put up with a few games of player rotation so that he can see them in action. You would imagine the loan players may not get a look in. But on the other hand I could be spouting b0ll0cks.

Id bet you a pound to a penny that him and or pw have watched some or most of our games since January

RS has been in the game long enough to know of and the abilities of a fair percentage of our squad, especially the ones with league pedigrees. It's not as if club managers live in a "bubble" and are totally oblivious of players from other clubs or leagues.

Quick and clinical. He knows what's up to standard and what isn't. I'd say there about a dozen current players we should look to keep. The rest can go for me.

Trickier will be assessing those out on loan.

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Quick and clinical. He knows what's up to standard and what isn't. I'd say there about a dozen current players we should look to keep. The rest can go for me.

Trickier will be assessing those out on loan.

I don't think it will look good for the 3 young lads to be honest if we want to get down to 22 even though they would only be on minimum/living wage next year, I guess there would be footage that you could ask Macc for if you want to look at Browne and Summerfield, The level Chambo dropped to you probably need You Tube but I think he was only signed for a year anyway.

I read today that Chambers has scored something like 5 goals in 7 games.

I'd be happy to see him back, think he was on a year though but could be wrong!

Players who are under contract for next season:

McKeown

Boyce
Mills

Berrett
Clements
S Jones
McAllister
Osborne
Summerfield
Bolarinwa
Browne

Asante
Vernon
Yussuf

The likes of McAllister and Browne are almost impossible for us to assess because we've barely seen them turn out in a black and white shirt. You could also say the same about Asante and Yussuf.

When Slade first arrived in 2004 he had just four pros on our books. This time he'll have 14, with another 16 to make decisions on whether they deserve a renewed contract.