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Evil Jimmy Krankie said:
I don’t want to derail the thread here. I’ve always said I’m not perceptive and I’m certainly not a master football tactician, but apart from Parkinson I said from day one of his appointment, that Grayson should have been nowhere near our football club.
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I would have Parkinson and Grayson as his number two again rather than that ginger twat Moyes.
 
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Jonny A said:
I get the sentiment but Watson had already agreed to go to Brighton nothing we could do, Jobe was off regardless again nothing we could do and we did try to persuade him to stay, Neil has had a contract offer for months and not signing it - so hard to say the club are discarding the ones who got us up
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We look like we're discarding Patto, though (one of the original Academy four). And its entirely possible that Riggy is scratching round for minutes. That's four for four. There's no absolute truth in what I'm saying here. I'm on the outside and as such this is just speculation. However, even with KLDs ambition to 'give it a real go', the spectre of relegation is very real. We need to make absolutely damn sure that we aren't burning bridges as a club.
 
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Frazier the Lion said:
There’s not enough minutes for those 6 players as I said previously. However I still think we should make a real effort to keep Neil. Obviously there’s still a decent chance that he could acclimatise and thrive in the league. However it goes beyond that for me. It’s about how the club treats the players that get them up, how they treat youth players, their commitment to a pathway. It’s not a good idea for us to leave ourselves open to being relegated with a midfield who will (to a man) expect to leave, combined with a reputation that says that your thanks for being promoted will be to be swiftly discarded.

If we had another young player in the youths ready to make that step up I’d feel more confident in letting Neil go, but there isn’t one. Meanwhile all those posts after the final about how promotion was built on the academy start to look hollow with three of the heroes discarded and Rigg scratching around for minutes in the Carabao.

I know that there’s an immediate task and I’m certainly not blind to it, but the longer term aims of the club rely on us not forgetting who we are (and how we got here) too.
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If he does not sign a contract we have no choice
 
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SAFCDRUM said:
So, I'm now fully focused on new CBs and a new striker.

One minor injury to Wilson for example, shows how short we are up front.

Clear as day we need centre half reinforcements. Looking forward to see who we bring in.
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I wonder if Harry Kane fancies a move here now that he’s won some trophies.
 
Frazier the Lion said:
We look like we're discarding Patto, though (one of the original Academy four). And its entirely possible that Riggy is scratching round for minutes. That's four for four. There's no absolute truth in what I'm saying here. I'm on the outside and as such this is just speculation. However, even with KLDs ambition to 'give it a real go', the spectre of relegation is very real. We need to make absolutely damn sure that we aren't burning bridges as a club.
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Patto will just need to compete for his place like everyone else. Players have had zero competition for a while due to bad depth, now they have some actual genuine competition if we get signings over the line
 
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Frazier the Lion said:
We look like we're discarding Patto, though (one of the original Academy four). And its entirely possible that Riggy is scratching round for minutes. That's four for four. There's no absolute truth in what I'm saying here. I'm on the outside and as such this is just speculation. However, even with KLDs ambition to 'give it a real go', the spectre of relegation is very real. We need to make absolutely damn sure that we aren't burning bridges as a club.
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We gave Riggy plenty of minutes last season (possibly too much for such a young lad). I'm confident that when fully fit he'll get plenty of minutes again - just more of them may be from the bench or in cup games.

He's a prized asset and we'll want to give him plenty of exposure. The more minutes he plays, the higher the price tag will be when the big clubs come knocking with offers we can't refuse. I expect him to really kick on this season too, particularly with the calibre of players around him. He'll certainly learn a lot from Xhaka.
 
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