Thetownend.com

 what players would improve the squad for next season as we're clearly going to need to strengthen.

Some better footballers?

DJ is a must. Presumably the BFG won’t be loaned out again, so a keeper needed.

Hopefully Conroy comes back to his best. I reckon Donohue is a shoe in.

Nobody knows what Matty Palmer is like. May need 2 new strikers.

All irrelevant if fans aren’t back in stadia

Now you know how hard it will be for Wellens. I see Matty Taylor has been released and could be a good signing if Oxford go up and don't want him

He’ll be staying there. Oxford born, oxford fan and has just bought a house in the oxford area

Source: work colleague is his mrs best mate

Is this summer, maybe longer, going to be like picking teams in the school playground?

He sounds like James Constable!

I think Power is going to have to fork out and hope Jewell can do his magic otherwise it could be a long season

Now of Banbury United fame!

I thought he may have ended up at Chippenham

Just been appointed player/assistant manager there

I'm not so sure - I reckon there will be a few owners secretly enjoying this, gives them cover for cost cutting knowing other teams will also be strapped for a change.  Nobody wants to be the only sustainable club in the league (bar Exeter), this is a rare chance for a collective downsizing of player wages/contracts etc.

Of Course, we may end-up in the same boat.

We just need to make sure Charles Reece Cook is not the last man standing when we get to pick our Keeper.

Good point about Charles Reece Cook probably slight improvement on Nicky Hammond!

To be fair Charles Reece-Cook would likely be an improvement on Reice Charles-Cook  ;)

Wes Foderingham & Jerry Yates.
DJ worth a punt.
Plus re sign Doyle & Grant.

How much game time has Charlie been getting at WBA?!

"Alan McCormack has been on the phone love..."
"Oh yeah, what's he saying?"
"He's says were getting the band back together!"

 :girlgiggle:

He was so bad he can't even get his name in the right order.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Putting the footy to one side, I did feel sorry for him at times because he really was a confidence kind of guy. Possibly far too much hand holding needed for a keeper. They have got to have a slightly different mental strength compared to the outfield squad. Where you can get away with being a passenger from time to time. Weird dynamic for keepers, they are part of a team yet an individual at the same time.

I think the best keepers tend to have a better relationship with their defenders (esp. CBs) and vice versa. If there's little understanding between the three (or two) it can be a disastrous combination that causes a keeper to often retract further from the team dynamic.


Either that or they are an absolute unique, like Barthez. He'd have taken a carafe of wine onto the pitch with him if he could get away with it. Crazy keeper.

About £40k per week's worth, if not more...

If this is a fantasy football type thread, what about that Messi chap?

Foderingham has been Rangers 3rd choice keeper and hasn’t played above L1 in his career. How many clubs do you think he has queuing up trying to sign him? I’m making the assumption it would be very few.

All others played for us this season so hardly fantasy.


Austin was purely a random thought as to whether his career is now on the decline and he’ll filter back down the leagues, kinda like Simon Cox did...

You'd still think Austin would want an upper L1 team at least if he did start to drop down the leagues.

Oh, wait...

Having said that, he's only just turned 30. You'd think he'd want another season or two in the Championship at least before he starts dropping down.

My post was largely a reference to Austin.  That said I think that Foderingham is also an unlikely signing.

Fods will go to QPR i reckon

Stuck around a season too long once McGregor forced him to the bench

30 is still prime age for a GK, might be lucky and get a champ club but league 1 is more realistic, his stock will be low having warmed the bench for 2 seasons

Our gas boiler fitter a couple of months back is one of Charlies best mates and he told me that Bournemouth have made contact with his agent about a move there.

If the 'muff are relegated I could see it happening, I doubt even with his injury history he would come down to L1 yet.

The problem with him coming into L1 would be the impending wage cap, what club can afford a large wage being paid to a very often injured player? in the Championship thats not so much but in L1 where he would be a huge earner there is no club that would take that risk unless it was a pay as you play deal.

Makes sense now you’ve said it...

Btw DV, I actually considered Fods when I heard he was released. Stranger things have happened but as Berni says and if anywhere at the moment, it could be QPR. A season later and him coming back here could've been a real possibility. Would be some signing for us in L1 if it did happen but he's worth of Championship I think.

Not a chance