State of the squad

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Keepers: JM is injured, he's needed replacing anyway since we came up. Killip is improving to be fair, it's a lot on his shoulders mind. Kean hasn't impressed before his injury.

Right backs: Mills is decent, no more than that. Davis a great pro, truly brilliant pro and I see him training like a loon in the gym when I go. He's probably been cardio training with the team in the morning, but he's a central midfielder who can't get around any more. Still first name on the team sheet for me and captain over Clarke.

Left Back: Only left back Dixon is shite. I won't mess about here. Squad of 34 pros and only one left back.

Centre Backs: The ageing skipper Clarke is worse than the great Pearson we brilliantly released as he was coming to his prime. I believe they are building a statue of him in Wrexham already. Osborne is carrying a bit of weight, he seems more interested in fighting with teammates and constantly bowing to his prophet than defending. Collins showing real signs of ageing, off the ball in particular IMO.

Centre midfield: Mr Invisible Berrett, Mr improved a lot, still not scored any goals despite a millions shots on goal and gives the ball away Summerfield, Rose who is good and shite in the same game, he says asthma isn't a problem, he will as it's his living so why so up and down in the same game? Clifton must be shocking to be kept out of the team by these clowns.

Left midfield: Real toughie here, we have Woolford who has his slippers on and seeing his days out, Wilks who looks out best player since signing but keeps getting taken off (and he's a striker apparently).

Right Midfield: The right wing is Dembele who was brilliant up to about ten weeks ago but is apparently injured, then plays, badly then is injured the next game. What's going on there?

Forwards: Matt is a clumsy donkey who shows the ball on his right foot all the time, doesn't bother shielding it, Vernon is looking his age, we have loan players like Jackson who is clearly on his way down but could be the saviour, Vermam or something like that (I lose track of the names), who is a clever player. Can Vernam and Jackson play together given their size? I don't see how. Plenty of other strikers to mention, I haven't that long.

I've missed a few, possibly unfair, possibly I've had enough. But I look at this squad of misfits, apparently there is a good team spirit and the dressing room is jovial and they are all in it together. I doubt most of them know their 'mates' names as I have proper lost track.

Great management Russ, you've got rid of all the players with some ability, brought in ageing journeyman and young lads on loan with no ties to the club. Done particularly well to get rid of any creativity we had, good luck on being a 'builder' when most players apart from the proper excrement ones are out of contract or over 35. Slade could not have done a worse job of dismantling a side if he tried. So inept it is beyond belief.

We've seen this before, and we know how it goes. Slade has to go, Fenty has to go.

Quoted from Mariner_09

This is the biggest concern for me. Since last January we have signed 26 new players! 26! Tell me how many of those have improved us? I’d say 3, Dembele, Osborne and Jones. Two of those have gone thanks to Slade’s systematic extermination of the Bignot era. Our best players this season (for me McKeown, Davies, Mills, Collins, Dembele, Summerfield) all but one of those are Hurst signings. Notice a pattern occuring? I have no faith in Slade who has assembled this squad of dross and now proceeds to parade it around every week which only exacerbates the glaring deficiencies in his recruitment policy, i.e. getting rid of our best players and signing crap zimmer frame ready ones.

Quoted from RichMariner

I see no investment. Other than Dembele, who may yet turn out to be someone that never really kicks on to the next level, we have nothing to sell.

The players we have brought in are either going to retire after leaving us, or are going to return to their parent clubs. There's nothing to work with.

If, at the end of this season we're still a League 2 club, the summer will be another clear-out.

If Slade was truly building something, he'd have the foundations in place by now.

The first thing Scott & Hurst did in the transfer market was buy McKeown, Pearson, Disley and Hearn. That was in 2011. McKeown's still with us, we got six years from Shaun, same from Dis, and Hearn had a three-year deal that was blighted by injury - but he was a cracking player when fit.

That's what you call a spine of a team. That's something you could build around.

Slade hasn't come close to doing anything of the sort. He's had two transfer windows and he's royally fukked things up.

And John Fenty has funded it.