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ThaiCanary

ThaiCanary

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Following the embarrassment that was a pitiful home defeat to poor Sunderland team I was contemplating who should leave in the summer and concluded it was easier and quicker to compile a list of who we should keep.

Keep

Ruddy
Rudd
Klose
Brady
O Neil
Wes
Redmond
Bennett

The rest can **** right off......nice to get that off my chest :emoticon-0102-bigsm
 
Olsson if we can on recent form. Mbokani is a useful option but wouldn't want him as the main striker (and I think he won't stay anyway).

Assume you just forgot Howson.
 
ThaiCanary said:
Following the embarrassment that was a pitiful home defeat to poor Sunderland team I was contemplating who should leave in the summer and concluded it was easier and quicker to compile a list of who we should keep.

Keep

Ruddy
Rudd
Klose
Brady
O Neil
Wes
Redmond
Bennett

The rest can **** right off......nice to get that off my chest :emoticon-0102-bigsm
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Too many variables really as depends on what league we're in, how much funds we have available and whether your talking about starting 11, bench or squad

Assuming premier league and starting 11 / bench then I think the only players I would keep are

Starting 11 - Klose / Howson / Brady

Starting 11 / Bench - Ruddy / O'Neil / Redmond

Bench - Rudd / Bennett / Pinto

I would make either Klose or Howson captain

Clearly that's not going to happen but my priorities would be CB, Striker, LB, RB, Goalkeeper, DM, 2 Striker and so on.
 
We only have a small nucleus of PL quality players: Howson, Brady, Klose. With Redmond (consistency), Bennet (needs someone like Klose to partner with), Rudd (maybe, who knows for sure), and Olsson (consistency) all on the cusp.
 
What we need first and foremost is a midfielder like Martin Peters or Ian Crook, i.e. someone who can actually pass the ball to one of his own team.
Would keep: Ryan Bennett, Declan Rudd, Cameron Jerome, Martin Olson, Jonny Howson. Fill all the other places with the boys out on loan and academy lads.
We also need an positive attack minded manager, one who can make changes when they need making, NOT in the last 15 minutes when were 2/3 nil down!
 
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We should have a decent team in the championship if we're relegated. I forgot to add Tettey to my list above. Mulumbu may come good there, too. It just hurts to think of missing out on that 100 million or so. As for AN, he'll be around til Christmas at least.
 
ilovedelia said:
What we need first and foremost is a midfielder like Martin Peters or Ian Crook, i.e. someone who can actually pass the ball to one of his own team.
Would keep: Ryan Bennett, Declan Rudd, Cameron Jerome, Martin Olson, Jonny Howson. Fill all the other places with the boys out on loan and academy lads.
We also need an positive attack minded manager, one who can make changes when they need making, NOT in the last 15 minutes when were 2/3 nil down!
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Not sure you´ll, find a more positive, attack-minded manager than the one we have at the minute ILD, especially if, as it looks likely, we go down - they don´t exactly hang on trees. And, today he´d made two of the three substitutions before the 55th minuite, and all three were attacking ones - can´t quite see what more he could have done in this particular case.
 
royalbarclayfan said:
Not sure you´ll, find a more positive, attack-minded manager than the one we have at the minute ILD, especially if, as it looks likely, we go down - they don´t exactly hang on trees. And, today he´d made two of the three substitutions before the 55th minuite, and all three were attacking ones - can´t quite see what more he could have done in this particular case.[/QUOTE]

Took Naismith off after 15 minutes! Don't agree he's attacking minded, we DONT score goals!
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But ILD, yesterday not scoring goals wouldn´t necessarily have been a problem, if we hadn´t gifted them two ourselves, a 0 - 0 draw would have suited us perfectly. It´s been just as much, too many defensive cock-ups that have cost us this year, as not scoring enough goals. For example, to be able to score 4 against Liverpool and still manage to lose, is not the fault of the strikers.
 
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royalbarclayfan said:
But ILD, yesterday not scoring goals wouldn´t necessarily have been a problem, if we hadn´t gifted them two ourselves, a 0 - 0 draw would have suited us perfectly. It´s been just as much, too many defensive cock-ups that have cost us this year, as not scoring enough goals.
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Don't disagree, but isn't the game about winning? That means you have to score more goals than the other team. If we had scored when we were in control, (first 20 minutes) then it would have been a completely different outcome.
I could still be sitting there watching them and they wouldn't have scored!
 
ilovedelia said:
Don't disagree, but isn't the game about winning? That means you have to score more goals than the other team. If we had scored when we were in control, (first 20 minutes) then it would have been a completely different outcome.
I could still be sitting there watching them and they wouldn't have scored!
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Of course the game is about winning, but in this League you can never expect to be able to outscore any opponent, when your defence is as porous as ours is, the best attacking sides always have strong defences. And yesterday I can´t remember one attacking movement we had, where I would say that we missed a sitter, yes, Manone had a great game, but then again that´s what keepers are there for. Our two best chances came from hopeful, long-range efforts from Olsson and Redmond.
 
I'd keep (for the Championship)

Ruddy
Rudd
Klose (doubt if he will stay)
Bennett
Olsson
Howson
Tettey
Redmond
Jerome
Brady (doubt if he will stay)

Give the young uns a chance (Toffolo, both Murphys, Maddison) and get some quality replacements in for the dead wood.
 
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oldcanariesfan said:
Give the young uns a chance (Toffolo, both Murphys, Maddison) and get some quality replacements in for the dead wood.
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I would like to see it as it has been way too long since a young-gun has made a serious breakthrough. We have the likes of Eadie, Bellamy and O Neil coming through at the same time and they were all excellent players, what have we had since?

The Murphey twins and even Loza look to have a great deal to offer and would love to see them get their chance, especially if Loza could be the answer to our striker problems in the longer term.
 
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