yorkshire stag wrote:1976/77 squad wasn’t bad , not forgetting Deardens babes of nearly all home grown talent, have to say i put them above todays Galácticos, however it’s building very nicely atm
let’s just take it one game at a time, as we all know we’ve won nowt yet duck
gazza1988 wrote:That looks a mess so I'll do a provisional retained list for easy reading?
Under contract next season
Aden Flint
Elliott Hewitt
Christy Pym
Baily Cargill
Hiram Boateng
Davis Keillor Dunn
Calum MacDonald
Alfie Kilgour
Aaron Lewis
Will Swan
Tom Nichols (forgot to add him above he signed a 18 month deal until the end of next season)
Louis Reed (signed 18 month deal on 28/02/2024)
Options could be exercised or new deal could be negotiated or just released on a free
George Williams
George Maris
Callum Johnson
James Gale
George Cooper
Contracts expiring - could be released, renegotiated or may even have an option not disclosed in press releases(or I didn't read it properly - I did only skim the official website after a while)
Stephen Quinn
Scott Flinders
Lucas Akins
Stephen McLaughlin
Jordan Bowery
Ollie Clarke
Rhys Oates (likely get a 1 year deal to recuperate)
Anthony Hartigan
Loan deals expiring
Lewis Brunt
Have I missed anybody?
PEAR CIDER wrote:I think
Cooper, Hartigan, Flinders, Stephen McLaughlin, Quinn will all go.
Bowery may well go, a bit older, been a while since he played in league 1.
Boateng will be sold
Calum Macdonald may be retained as backup pending inclusion of a new left back.
I think We'll look to get some money for Maris also.
Clarke is the one I am not so sure about. I like him a lot, I just feel he may be the surprise person to move on.
keeps the core squed, but we need some replacements of a slightly younger demographic. We'd need a replacement / additional to challange Akins also.
yorkshire stag wrote:1976/77 squad wasn’t bad not forgetting Deardens babes of nearly all home grown talent, have to say i put them above todays Galácticos, however it’s building very nicely atm
let’s just take it one game at a time, as we all know we’ve won nowt yet duck
Spiritater wrote:yorkshire stag wrote:1976/77 squad wasn’t bad not forgetting Deardens babes of nearly all home grown talent, have to say i put them above todays Galácticos, however it’s building very nicely atm
let’s just take it one game at a time, as we all know we’ve won nowt yet duck
Sorry mate not a chance. Many were talented and went on to have good careers, but fact is they had not the experience and nous the present team have at the time. That's why they received some proper tonkings during that season and lost 13 or 14 games in total. Back in 01/ 02 we lost 6 games from now till the end of the season... that will not happen this time. Today's team would boss the Dearden team, quite literally 'men against boys'.
I hve said previously on here I can't see us losing more than six, if we do I'd be very surprised.
This team is up there with the mid 70s teams.
ParisStag wrote:Spiritater wrote:yorkshire stag wrote:1976/77 squad wasn’t bad not forgetting Deardens babes of nearly all home grown talent, have to say i put them above todays Galácticos, however it’s building very nicely atm
let’s just take it one game at a time, as we all know we’ve won nowt yet duck
Sorry mate not a chance. Many were talented and went on to have good careers, but fact is they had not the experience and nous the present team have at the time. That's why they received some proper tonkings during that season and lost 13 or 14 games in total. Back in 01/ 02 we lost 6 games from now till the end of the season... that will not happen this time. Today's team would boss the Dearden team, quite literally 'men against boys'.
I hve said previously on here I can't see us losing more than six, if we do I'd be very surprised.
This team is up there with the mid 70s teams.
I didn't see the 70s teams, but in my 33 years as a Stag, this is comfortably the best side I've seen, in terms of being a complete side/squad. The 01 team had a certain flair and wow factor, but they weren't as good as these.
stagmanrob wrote:I've said this before, and it's worth a debate.
With this squad being undoubtedly our best....is it also on the flip side, our slowest?
There's only Oates and Swan with any proper pace really, and for me Oates has lost a bit since his injuries too.
I can always remember us having pacey players even when we've been terrible - definitely more than two anyway (mostly speedboats without drivers mind you).
Just goes to show a bit of nous can counteract the need to play on the break.
Sneag wrote:stagmanrob wrote:I've said this before, and it's worth a debate.
With this squad being undoubtedly our best....is it also on the flip side, our slowest?
There's only Oates and Swan with any proper pace really, and for me Oates has lost a bit since his injuries too.
I can always remember us having pacey players even when we've been terrible - definitely more than two anyway (mostly speedboats without drivers mind you).
Just goes to show a bit of nous can counteract the need to play on the break.
The way we play the ball does all the running.
stagmanrob wrote:I've said this before, and it's worth a debate.
With this squad being undoubtedly our best....is it also on the flip side, our slowest?
There's only Oates and Swan with any proper pace really, and for me Oates has lost a bit since his injuries too.
I can always remember us having pacey players even when we've been terrible - definitely more than two anyway (mostly speedboats without drivers mind you).
Just goes to show a bit of nous can counteract the need to play on the break.
Rob wrote:stagmanrob wrote:I've said this before, and it's worth a debate.
With this squad being undoubtedly our best....is it also on the flip side, our slowest?
There's only Oates and Swan with any proper pace really, and for me Oates has lost a bit since his injuries too.
I can always remember us having pacey players even when we've been terrible - definitely more than two anyway (mostly speedboats without drivers mind you).
Just goes to show a bit of nous can counteract the need to play on the break.
It's not our best squad, not even close yet.
Sneag wrote:Rob wrote:stagmanrob wrote:I've said this before, and it's worth a debate.
With this squad being undoubtedly our best....is it also on the flip side, our slowest?
There's only Oates and Swan with any proper pace really, and for me Oates has lost a bit since his injuries too.
I can always remember us having pacey players even when we've been terrible - definitely more than two anyway (mostly speedboats without drivers mind you).
Just goes to show a bit of nous can counteract the need to play on the break.
It's not our best squad, not even close yet.
I can't remember a time when we had 18 players that could be switched around without weakening the first 11.
The squads of 74/75 & 76/77 achieved more (so far) but we only had squads of 13 players back then
Dan wrote:What this squad is missing is a pacy winger. I can’t believe no one has ever mentioned it before!
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