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Gurney-------------O'Hanlon------------Exp centre back----------Nicholas


Shakes-------------Wise/Smith-----------Attacking Mid-------------Brown


----------------------Peacock--------------Cureton type player


I think Ifil will come good but would rather have someone with experience at the back. David Stroud will come good and will push Brown for a place. A 20 goal a season striker is a must and thats where i would like Mr Power to stump some cash up for.

Your thoughts?

We need someone better than Shakes for a start. I have some faith that he will improve given time, but he should be more of a squad player in my opinion with a 1st team right winger brought in.  

Roberts (if dry) can fill the 2nd attacking position. Failing that I'd rather have someone properly quick and non-hobbit like to play up from with the ledgendary peconator.

So we need at a mimumim
2 x GK
1 x CB
1 x LB (as nicho is the only one we have)
1 x CM
1x RM
1 x Quick striker

I personally think we need better quality than Nicho and Shakes. Brown also needs to prove he is up for it.

Also need cover/competition for a few places. Of course a fully fit and sober Roberts could do a job.

edit: Pie pretty much said it, damn 'submit' procrastination on my part.

I'm not sure pie about having another tall striker. Peacock is decent in the air so can win many a flick on.

Would love to see him and roberts gell again like we know they have in the past.

Does anyone know how Roberts is doing on the staying dry front??

Jack Smith will be first choice left-back over Nicho.

NOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo

please god no.

brink back Duke. All is forgiven

I'd sooner we bought in another Left Back.

Smith was one of our better players last season IMO. I don't understand why so many people don't rate him

I know what you mean, but I'd like us to have a big team next season.

Tbh, A fit Roberts fits the bill, not very good in the air but quick and strong.



He was up and down I thought, trouble was the difference between a good J Smith performance was massive.

His good perfoances showed a lot of promise though in my opinion.

much better at right back also.

Isn't Jack Smith more of a right-back?  I don't think he is wholly comfortable at left back.  I do rate him.

For me we need:

GK - New Signing
RB - Gurney/Smith
LB - Nicholas/New Signing
CB - O'Hanlon
CB - New Signing/Ifil
RW - New Signing/Shakes
LW - New Signing/Brown
DM - Gurney/Smith/Wise
MC - New Signing/New Signing
FC - Peacock
FC - New Signing

Subs:
GK - New Signing
DC - Ifil
MC - Gurney/Smith/Wise
W - Shakes/Brown
FC - Caton/Jutkiewicz

So that's two new keepers, a new centre back, a new left back, two midfielders, two widemen and a forward needed if we're serious about challenging next season...

not touched a drop since the day before he went into the clinic, or so he claimed.

i hope so.

i do hope he gets fit etc for the new season.
as Pie said a fit and strong Roberts will fill the second striker slot very nicely

The hope I cling to, is not his ability, but more the fact that he's finished if he doesn't sort out his career with us.  He's been out for a long time and had his drinking problem go public.  Who else at this level is going to take him on unless he's proved his worth since then?  So the hope is, he'll try and give his career another go, and that means putting in performances for us, whether he likes it or not.

Hmmmm I'm not sure what we need, apart from two goal keepers and an expirenced defender...oh and a right winger

Alot of those players I would have shipped out (SeanO, Nicholas, Shakes etc) but with the new boss I'm hoping he will get the best out of SeanO and Nicho, because we all know they are capable of much better than last season

Shakes is a lost cause though, wouldnt have even offered him a new deal.

Hopefully Wise also gets the best out of Christian Roberts.

We need to forget Brown. He's a cunt.

if brown carries on playing like he was at the end of last season then he will be a key player next season.

I'd say we need close to 9 maybe 10 new players if we’re going to challenge next season. Take away the youth and those due to depart and we have eleven first team players including Comwyn-Platt and Shakes who have only just seen out their first season in part.

I think we have to pretty much bring in someone for every position with the vital ingredient being experience.  Four or five have to have played league football and have been playing it regularly if we’re to take a gamble on the likes of Thorpe then we need to see it as just that, a gamble.  

At the start of last season we had barely a handful of players that had played first team football with the majority of signings having warmed benches or been squad and youth players the season prior.  Poor pre-season and there go, we were behind before we even started.

Yes Roberts is a good player but he has never been a proven goal scorer which i think we will need. Peacock is not an out and out goalscorer either.

Didnt Roberts and Peacock both hit close to 20 goals in this division with previous clubs Exeter and Mansfield respectivly?

Hmm....

Not sure where we're going to get all this quality from.

I'm hoping Poyet can mould Roberts in his own image.  Aggressive goalscoring midfielder.  That'd do for me.

I'm hoping Henry and Gerrard will come. 8)

And when did this happen? Along time ago thats for sure!

We all know Roberts has had problems and  i doubt that he could come back and be a 20 goal a season striker. I do think Peacock has the potential to score alot of goals but a few injuries have taken its toll and he wasn't exactly prolific in a league not that much better than league 2.
Cureton would have scored 20+ goals in league 2. It pissed me off when fans were slating him last season, he always gave 100%.

Bollocks.

How many goals did Peacock & Roberts get when they were at Bristol City together? Did they play as a regular partnership?

that's so so wrong. he was lazy, end of.

sorry sonic but your wrong too.

he was fucking lazy, end of.

how can u make that statement?? no one knows what Wise thinks of any players yet

I think some of those crazy 'performance enhancing drugs' you hear about might be handy next season.

Whet we need next season:-

Beer to be served in the TE.

Against the law I'm afraid.

fuck the law!

Peacock was always good for close to 15 a season, where as Roberts was more likely 10....I think