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  1. SaintsForTheWin

    SaintsForTheWin Any holes a goal

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    Armstrong is British, so is included in home grown players isn’t he?
     
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  2. Schad

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    Nope. Only players trained in England/Wales as youths count as homegrown. Many top Scottish players end up English academies and thus qualify; Armstrong did not.
     
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    SaintsForTheWin Any holes a goal

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    Weird how Wales is included.

    Learn something new everyday.
     
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    I count 12...
     
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    Owes to the presence of Welsh teams in the FL/PL structure, as far as I'm aware.
     
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    <laugh>

    Never mind me, then. I had copied it over to a text file to count them on our squad, and I repeated one line of players in there. And then removed it before posting it to the thread. Crisis averted.
     
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    GK:
    McCarthy
    Gunn

    Rb:
    Cedric
    Valery
    Reed (maybe, he is being looked at over pre season here)

    Cb:
    Stephens
    Vestergaard
    Hoedt
    Marlon
    Bednerek
    Yoshida

    Lb:
    Bertrand
    Targett

    CM:
    Lemina
    Romeu
    Hojbjerg
    Armstrong
    Prowse

    Wingers:
    Elyounoussi
    Redmond
    Sims

    For:
    Gabbi
    Austin
    Long
     
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    Looking at that, it's clear we need a winger and a CF! Starting ones too.
     
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    looking at that list it feels like too many centre backs ...
     
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    Maya is not leaving:mad::mad::mad:
     
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    Suggests we’re going to continue with 3 at the back! Either that or we need to lose a few!
     
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    I refer you to my earlier post:mad::mad::mad::mad:
     
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    Think Stephens ought to be moved on. Needs playing time, and likely at a level below the Premier League.
     
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    Personally, I very much disagree. he'd figure in my first XI alongside Yoshi and Vestergaard
     
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    I'd take Bednarek over Stephens. Hoedt too, even though I'm not yet convinced by him either. Bednarek isn't the finished product, but in his short time he didn't get caught ball-watching or misjudging balls a fraction as much as Stephens.
     
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    So is this mass exodus of first team players going to happen or not?
     
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    Bednarek was one of our better players during the run in IMO.
     
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    I'd suggest that Bednarek was easily our best CB under Hughes (and the fact that Stephens didn't reclaim his place says a lot - I mean, at the end of the day, Hughes' opinion is the most important, and he went with Bednarek, Yoshida and Hoedt).

    I also think there's huge potential in Hoedt. If any of our CBs are going to become the next top CB, he is the most likely in my view. But he does need to cut out the brain fades.
     
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    I like Jack's calm composure on the ball and his distribution but he needs to learn how to defend better, I see a possible future for him as a CDM.
     
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    Think he has more of a future as a DM than as a CB, definitely. But the issues he has in reading play as a CB are likely to remain issues in any role where he has a significant defensive role.
     
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