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You could take that 2 ways mate...not sure why anyone would jump on the bandwagon, or why anyone would dive in with abusive/personal responses as per the above. Pretty daft all round imo, but each to their own.

Toaster

It has all got a tad silly that's for sure.

Salami

Spot on mate 👍👏

You're not wrong, although I think Russell has more class than to sport a Daytona. Strikes me as an IWC Portugieser kind of guy, with aspirations for a Patek Philipe Nautilus as a reward to himself after promotion.

Looking up, seeing play and making decisions is something that good players develop early. The kid hasn't developed those basics yet, so you've got to wander if he can. There's the makings of a bloody brilliant player, but a winger who doesn't score or create isn't an effective winger regardless of how exciting they look with the ball at their feet. For me he flatters to deceive.

He's in the above average category for me, and definitely someone we can improve upon. He just doesn't get his head up enough, and when he does, he seems unable to see what's going on and makes poor decisions on terms of using the ball. It's easy to see why City let him go. Squad player at best for me.

Yep. And with Baz the big issue is positioning...a keeper will concede more goals on any league if he starts in the wrong place.

Yep. Very odd bit of business.

Indeed. You can tell he's played for Martin before and knows exactly what he and others should be doing. He's a real organiser, and is a very good player with it.

He's our best CB by some distance, but he's fragile and too good for he championship. I think he's one who'll be going.

Yep. Forest. £23m.

It's hard to know who'll go I think. I reckon we took a haircut on Orsic and Diallo (ie fee covering wages shortfall for the balance of the contract period, or something like that) and I wouldn't be surprised to see us find a way to cut out losses on others. The next few weeks are going to be interesting, but I'm confident we'll go into September in good shape squad wise.

Very good! You've now got me saying it in the style of a Harry Potter spell 🪄😂

Bednarek was my punt last season, and I think he'll be decent. I just think it shines through that Martin is a bright player, and very much knows the Martin way. If not the captain, he'll be good for us. In fact, there'll be a few leaders in that back 4 this season which will help.

Ha!! It's people using the same avatars that's a pain...you see an avatar for the last post on a thread, and have a click thinking it'll be someone interesting, but it's some other bandwagon jumper.

Hostel

I think it'll be Manning. Very much a Martin man.

I reckon there's 7 or 8 that I think most of us would be relaxed (or happy) to see gone. My concern is more about making room for 4-5 new starters that'll suit Martin's style and improve us. Half a new team, plus Charles and Manning, and we're getting where we need to be.

There's more chance of getting credible information from a crop circle mate.

McCarthy...there's 10, although I don't think it'll that many purely because there's some we won't be able to shift. Regardless of the numbers, we need a huge clear out before Martin can bring in more players that he wants.

That's the issue, some of them won't be wanted by other clubs, and others won't want to go for a lesser wage. Getting rid of some of these is likely to hit us hard in the pocket, but it's that or keep them and pay them not to play. Not ideal.

Losing 10 leaves us with 17 first team squad members. Add 4 or 5 and we have 22-23 plus the likes of Amo-Ameyaw, Doyle, Ballard, Meghoma etc. I can't see that we need more than that.

Yep, and that youth includes Simeu, Small, Dibling, Doyle, Ballard, Meghoma and Amo-Ameyaw who ought to be in or around the first team, at least for cup games. I reckon 7-10 still need to get gone to leave room for 4-5 Martin players, and give some kind of pathway for the better kids.