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can anyone produce a full list of all our players and when their contracts expire?

Pter BREZOVAN       
 LeePEACOCK    .....Summer 08   
BlairSTURROCK
   
Jack SMITH       
Ricky SHAKES       
Curtis WESTON
   
JamieVINCENT       
   
Ashan HOLGATE
   
 Sofiene ZAABOUB....Summer 08       
Andy NICHOLAS       
Phil SMITH................Summer 08
   
Jerel IFIL       
 Patrick NOUBISSIE YOUMBI       
Ben WELLS
   
Adi WILLIAMS       
Paul EVANS    
Andy CATON
   
Gareth WHALLEY....Summer 08       
Michael POOK    
Ashley WESTWOOD
   
Aaron BROWN       
RoyceBROWNLIE       

   
Christian ROBERTS       
Lukas JUTKIEWICZ.....Summer 09

  All those not mentioned are out of contract summer 07

whalley's still here?

i blame sturrock

Out of contract this summer
J Smith
Vincent
Ifil
Williams
Brown
Roberts
Shakes
Nicholas
Noubissie
Evans
Pook
Brownlie
Sturrock
Weston
Holgate
Wells

On loan
Brezovan
Westwood
Timlin

Out of contract Summer 2008
Zaaboub
Whalley
Peacock

Out of contract Summer 2009
Jutkiewicz
Smith

Caton - YTS expired(?)

So that's five players contracted beyond the end of this season, one of whom will never play for us again. That's more worrying than I thought.

worrying? au contraire mon ami, the cull will be most productive.

Looking at the players out of contract, I'd only keep J Smith, Ifil, Williams and Weston. Perhaps give Evans a short-term deal to see how his injuries are.

Lots of rebuilding next season, let's hope that if the incumbent board are still in place they don't try to cut the budget even further.

so now the question is, out of those out of contract who would you keep.....and who do you expect Sturrock to keep.

I'd expect

Brown
Roberts
Shakes
Nicholas
Pook
Brownlie
Holgate
Wells

all to leave.

Out of contract this summer
J Smith - keep
Vincent - keep
Ifil - keep
Williams - keep
Evans - keep, short term
Sturrock - keep, short term - would like to see Sturrock Jr after having a pre-season under his belt
Weston - keep


the rest, bye!

 Perish the thought that Newbury still runs the club next season, because cuts will be guaranteed....the sole reason for a reasonably competitive squad at the start of the season was BP's investment.

so basically we're shit and going no where.... 8)

I'm going to Supermarine with Yeovil  8)

If this board are still here next season I will go and watch Supermarine instead.

I guess it all depends if we go up or not.

If we don't go up - I think more will be offered deals.

If we do go up - I think Sturrock will release most of them and bring in his own.

He's struggled with transfers because of what division we're in.

Spot on, if we are still in this crap league he will struggle to bring in decent players, let's just hope we secure promotion then PS can have a right good sort out! :soapy tit wank:  :soapy tit wank:

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NMH

Ady may be finished, Evans will be given a chance.  If Weston is out of favour, surely he's worth swapping for a striker.  Possibly, that's why he wasn't featured on Saurday.  This is pure speculation.

I would imagine that Sturrock will also want to keep Nico & Pook as they would be good squad players, not always 1st team but decent back up to cover for injuries or loss of form, if we get rid of too many and have toom any new ones comingin we risk bueing in the situation that no one knows anyone and it taking half a season for them to get used to each other and us struggling during that time, we need a nucleus of players already here that are decent enough, then put them on 1 yr deals.

yeah, just like that season Dennis Wise bought in loads of players, man they took ages to gell and start winning games!

Back to the players, I randomly thought of Ben Wells, he's featured once this season. He played right wing for 10 minutes at Mansfield and put in 3 or 4 decent crosses. Maybe he's worth another go out on the right wing what with Shakes being rubbish and stuff

I'd agree with VD there, Wells was good againts Salisbury on the right too.  He cant do any worse than shakes on a bad day

I rate Wells.

Too small for central midfield but has looked handy on the right when he's played there, I remember him coming on against Tranmere at the start of last season and his energy, work rate and pace were impressive and he put in some decent crosses too.

agreed

and he is a friend of TUMDFC

yay

A lot's going to be dependent on which league we're in and how much players earn - E.g. Shakes earns a third of what Roberts is on, so we're likely to keep Shakes over Roberts (Newbury thinking here!). Bold stays
J Smith
Vincent - please leave...
Ifil
Williams
Brown
Roberts - please, please, please.
Shakes - Cheapy player
Nicholas - shouldn't have got a driving ban....
Noubissie
Evans
Pook - Cheapy player
Brownlie
Sturrock - Daddy won't get rid...
Weston - Won't sign a new contract - join Wise on a free if Leeds go down
Holgate
Wells

Largely agree but neither Pook and Shakesis are up to League 1 standard if promoted, whereas Weston has the class to do well at that level - if he hasn't fallen out big time with Sturrock.