If you also factor in that Bridcutt looks unlikely to be here and Ward/Andrews loans finishing, our first team for next season would currently look something like this:
Walton (think Ankergren and Brezovan are also out of contract)
El-Abd Greer Maksimenko (is Dunk also out of contract?)...
Thank God he did - Agustien was about the only plus point for me tonight. Even though he lost the ball a few times, he still made several defence splitting passes which was more than Dave had done all game (and all season).
Absolute joke if they sack him. He performed a minor miracle in getting them promoted last year... There is no way they should have even been play-off contenders, let alone promoted at the end of it all.
TK - 6. Distribution poor but otherwise ok (apart from one punch which he should have caught)
Calde - 5. No worse than others. Shouldn't have gone off.
GG - 4. Distribution terrible. Often not too many options but hoofing it to 7 foot defenders not that clever...
Upson - 4. At fault for goal...
TK - 6 solid apart from kicking once or twice
Calde - 6 defended solidly enough but not his usual threat going forward
GG - 5 distribution generally poor - especially long balls
Upson - 7 best of the back four
Ward - 6 OK defensively but poor long balls - especially first half
Ince - 6...
Agree with these although would have had Spanish Dave as a 5. Just seems to be pretty anonymous at the moment. Thought he was our weakest player today by some way.
Kaz acts like a bit of a brat
He thinks he's a bit of 'all that'
But when all's said and done
He wants to join the scum
You might say he's a bit of a ****
Bridge makes a massive difference but agree that, on paper, team looks quite strong. However, so far, certain players have been a shadow of their former selves and need to get back up to speed pretty quickly.
Please don't say that. I really hope we at least spoke to him... He was one of the 2 or 3 most important players for us last season and it would be a massive mistake from the club if we didn't even speak to him about coming here.