Decision Time

As our season is now officially over. Its time that the club/Sheridan decide on who gets a new contract or offered a new deal one at least whether they accept it or not and who is released. It goes without saying B.Reid, Jones, Holmes-Dennis and Anash return to their own clubs for their own futures to be decided apon. Olly Lee has been released from Birmingham.

The following players to my knowledge are out of contract now.

James Bittner
Dominic Blizzard
Jason Banton
Lewis Alessandra
Anthony O'Connor
Ollie Norburn
Tyler Harvey
Marvin Morgan
Jamie Richards
River Allen
Aaron Bentley
Matt Lecointe

Out of that lot above i would move mountains to offer contracts to Alessandra & O'connor and get them to sign them. But it will be tough and i will not be shocked if they move on.

It will be a tough decision to decided on Harvey, Bentley, Banton, Bittner and Blizzard for me and it could go either way i guess. I can see Bittner being kept on seeing as McCormick will be number 1 still and his remit is to be there incase.

Richards, Morgan, Norburn i would release no question about it richards has been here 4 years and hasnt come close to breaking into the first team, morgan was a flop and norburn is no hourihane.

As for Allen it depends on if the club see something in him i havent seen him play so i really dont know about him

Lecointe sorry but the club cant keep giving him contracts when he cant stay fit.

Brent out, squad out, Sheridan out! What's Peter Reid doing nowadays?

Iggy wrote:

Brent out, squad out, Sheridan out! What's Peter Reid doing nowadays?

peeling bananas with his feet last time i heard

It's tough to call with some of the young uns.

I would keep Lewis and obs O'Connor and maybe 2 of the rest.

The real problem is who are we going to lose out of those still contracted? Lose a couple of them and we might as well lose Sheridan and start again?

Coxside_Green wrote:

It's tough to call with some of the young uns.

I would keep Lewis and obs O'Connor and maybe 2 of the rest.

The real problem is who are we going to lose out of those still contracted?  Lose a couple of them and we might as well lose Sheridan and start again?

I would like to see Lewi stay.

I can't see O'Connor remaining here tbh.

I would give Banton another chance, albeit a short contract.

Lewi's off to Bury. Nelson to Charlton too apparently, hopefully get a decent price... LOL. I rate Nelse very highly and he'll do well if he moves up the divisions, but with Hartley and McHugh still contracted we've got a couple of very good CBs and can drop this 3 at the back bullshit. O'Connor, sadly, will be off too - although it'd be a fair swoop if we could persuade him to stay. I'd certainly try to keep hold of Ansah too, I've been very impressed. Wouldn't mind getting Bobby Reid back too, but would certainly look for another (attacking) central midfield option. And get some feckin wingers in! Maybe keep Banton, I've not been his biggest fans over the season but he actually had some fight and ability in these last two play off games. It was the manager that showed himself up as a stubborn, negative arsewipe and its no surprise that flair players like Banton have regressed under him.

I heard last night that Alessandra is as good as gone already. His GF has not and will not move down here, he's hacked off with the to-ing and fro-ing and has packed all his stuff up already and sent it back up north.

Quite how the person who told me this knows this to be true I have no idea but he was adamant it was.

I'd offer deals to:

Blizzard - Cheap option, decent player, just about done enough to earn an extra year.
O'Connor - Obviously though doubt he'll sign now we're staying in League 2. Cox is good enough though.
Harvey - Don't think he would accept but who knows, under a decent manager he might be a good player.. Potential doesn't just disappear.
Allen - Decent future, another option, still young etc, cheap.
Bentley - Cheap defensive option, don't think he's that bad anyway.
Lecointe - Only a pre-season thing, see how he does.

So release:

Banton - Not even worth it, he wouldn't consider and second time around just hasn't worked.
Alessandra - Not good enough for 30/46 games a season. There, I said it.
Bittner - Need someone to challenge the overrated McCormick. Offer Bittner a youth coach job?
Morgan - Not good enough.
Norburn - Unconvinced, looks overweight, could be good under a decent manager but I don't know.
Richards - Just not good enough. Very poor, in fact.

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

I heard last night that Alessandra is as good as gone already. His GF has not and will not move down here, he's hacked off with the to-ing and fro-ing and has packed all his stuff up already and sent it back up north.

Quite how the person who told me this knows this to be true I have no idea but he was adamant it was.

No big loss in my opinion. Don't need players who don't want to be here.

ejh wrote:

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

I heard last night that Alessandra is as good as gone already. His GF has not and will not move down here, he's hacked off with the to-ing and fro-ing and has packed all his stuff up already and sent it back up north.

Quite how the person who told me this knows this to be true I have no idea but he was adamant it was.

No big loss in my opinion. Don't need players who don't want to be here.

Agree, flatters to deceive far too often, thankyou and goodbye.

Les Miserable wrote:

ejh wrote:

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

I heard last night that Alessandra is as good as gone already. His GF has not and will not move down here, he's hacked off with the to-ing and fro-ing and has packed all his stuff up already and sent it back up north.

Quite how the person who told me this knows this to be true I have no idea but he was adamant it was.

No big loss in my opinion. Don't need players who don't want to be here.

Agree, flatters to deceive far too often, thankyou and goodbye.

Thirded. Bang average and overrated.

SwimWithTheTide wrote:

Lewi's off to Bury. Nelson to Charlton too apparently, hopefully get a decent price... LOL. I rate Nelse very highly and he'll do well if he moves up the divisions, but with Hartley and McHugh still contracted we've got a couple of very good CBs and can drop this 3 at the back bullshit. O'Connor, sadly, will be off too - although it'd be a fair swoop if we could persuade him to stay. I'd certainly try to keep hold of Ansah too, I've been very impressed. Wouldn't mind getting Bobby Reid back too, but would certainly look for another (attacking) central midfield option. And get some feckin wingers in! Maybe keep Banton, I've not been his biggest fans over the season but he actually had some fight and ability in these last two play off games. It was the manager that showed himself up as a stubborn, negative arsewipe and its no surprise that flair players like Banton have regressed under him.

Hartley, Reid, Nelson and McHugh the club will want to sell them no question about it over the summer.

I can understand them wanting to move on to a bigger club in a higher league if thats their wish of course and i wouldnt think ill of them for doing so.
But as we saw with Hourihane, im not confident at all we will demand a decent fee for those players should bids come in that reflects their value and worth for the team and ability as players.
Plymouth prices could give lidls and aldi a run for their money.

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

I heard last night that Alessandra is as good as gone already. His GF has not and will not move down here, he's hacked off with the to-ing and fro-ing and has packed all his stuff up already and sent it back up north.

Quite how the person who told me this knows this to be true I have no idea but he was adamant it was.

And so it came to pass.

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

I heard last night that Alessandra is as good as gone already. His GF has not and will not move down here, he's hacked off with the to-ing and fro-ing and has packed all his stuff up already and sent it back up north.

Quite how the person who told me this knows this to be true I have no idea but he was adamant it was.

And so it came to pass.

Get you Nostrildormouse, it was hardly like predicting the lottery numbers? However, an opportunity to self quote is not to be frittered away.

Les Miserable wrote:

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

I heard last night that Alessandra is as good as gone already. His GF has not and will not move down here, he's hacked off with the to-ing and fro-ing and has packed all his stuff up already and sent it back up north.

Quite how the person who told me this knows this to be true I have no idea but he was adamant it was.

And so it came to pass.

Get you Nostrildormouse, it was hardly like predicting the lottery numbers?  However, an opportunity to self quote is not to be frittered away.

he is feckin good isnt he?? could he predict the next manager