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lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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Chelsea.
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On a side note. Any of you going to the Chelsea flower show next week?
We are going Wednesday
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Re: Chelsea.
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At least it's not the first day which is the Royals and so called celebs who get invited .
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Re: Chelsea.
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Yeah I always go that day. Free Prosecco.
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Re: Chelsea.
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Nah, not as good as it used to be, The Range has a better selection.
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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Seems we might be one of last clubs to announce.Wonder if negotiations going on possibly with JFC and Goode still ?
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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We will move on with dealings today. Will have to shift some dead wood now it looks as if Richard Kone is on his way
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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PS serious though on this read Birmingham have to legally tell out of contract players by tomorrow whether they will offered new one.Not sure if this a general EFL ruling as first I have heard of it.
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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I guess as contracts end 31st May there's probably some legal thing about minimum 2 weeks notice of ending/extension
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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Contracts expire 30/6 .Also think there is weird thing that if a out of contract player can't find a club before new season starts the old club has to pay their salary still to then.
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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Yes, for one month (July). I guess it's the equivalent of redundancy pay?
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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Thanks now you have confirmed it sure the Kone rumour is true
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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Digby released by Camb U..Could have been a great player
for us imo,but not given proper chance or played in wrong position if memory serves me.
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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He has been pretty useless for Cambridge so no reason he would have been good for us.
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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Er that's why they picked he most weeks plus mace him captain.
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Yes, but they have been shit for years. And have released him.
Edited by Chuds at 21:37:04 on 8th May 2025
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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Probably can't afford his huge wage demands as their star player.
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Our List
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Makise Evans and David Hicks released according to the Comet
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Re: Our List
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The list is out:
https://www.stevenagefc.com/news/2025/may/16/stevenage-fc-retained-list-2024-25/
Under contract for the 2025/26 season:
Louis Appéré
Taye Ashby-Hammond
Ellis Bates
Daniel Butler
Lewis Freestone
Charlie Goode
Luther James-Wildin
Daniel Kemp
Rylee Mitchell
Daniel Phillips
Carl Piergianni
Aaron Pressley
Jamie Reid
Jordan Roberts
Tyreece Simpson
Daniel Sweeney
Louis Thompson
Harvey White
Jake Young
Club remains in discussions with:
Nick Freeman
Elliott List
Released:
Kyle Edwards
Jake Forster-Caskey
David Hicks
Kane Smith
Loan players returning to parent clubs:
Murphy Cooper
Brandon Hanlan
Eli King
Edited by AndyC at 16:14:08 on 16th May 2025
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Re: Our List
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No surprises. Couple of questions though.
Who decided to give Simpson a two year deal (at least, or one with an option in his favour) last year?
What is there to discuss with List other than where the exit door is?
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Re: Our List
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(Sticking neck out) there's a player in Simpson. Somewhere
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Re: Our List
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Of those under contract I'd be looking to sell/offload on loan the following depending on what we have to spend...
Louis Appéré
Ellis Bates
Charlie Goode
Rylee Mitchell
Aaron Pressley
Jamie Reid
Jordan Roberts
Tyreece Simpson
Jake Young
And the contract talks with List would be quite brief...
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Re: Our List
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On List nothing heard so you are probably right plus same for Freeman. Wonder if we were really talking to them at all especially Freeman.
.Last season we said same re Macdonald radio silence from and Rotherham just announced signing weeks later.
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Re: Our List
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What benefit would we get from saying we are talking to them if we are not, rather than just saying we have released them?
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Re: Our List
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You tell me, just basing it on Freeman being injured plus to add to that today's signing and also the Macdonald thing. if the genuinely have no interest in them being part of future would welcome them just saying.
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Re: Our List
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I don't need to tell you because I didn't make the statement. I really don't understand why you think the club would pretend it is talking to a player if it isn't. There is no reason to.
Houghton could be a replacement for King/JFC, doesn't mean Freeman is gone. And talking to basically means both parties are open to coming to a deal so are staying in touch about it, rather than they are continuously discussing terms. MacDonald would have been open to staying with us, but as soon as daddy Evans came a calling he ran off with his tail wagging like the good little loyal lapdog that he is.
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Re: Our List
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Well the talks with List have lasted a week what are we talking about.Assume we must have offered some sort of contract , perhaps a yr but perhaps he wants two.
Also not sure what we are talking to Freeman about unless it's a some sort of just being around club thing to see how he progresses but no contract.
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Re: Our List
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Ouch Baldock, that is tough. Be careful what you wish for! Trite I know... but it is always on my mind.
For me Goode, Roberts and Reid are *key* players, and fixtures in our first eleven if firing. Granted that's an "if"!
Reidy in particular needs a full pre-season and some service. But he's a player. Witness second half vs Cambridge (away) - electric.
Much more to come from Appere. He's intelligent, if lacking killer instinct to date. He'll benefit from games.
Young will s**t goals for someone. It could still be us?! Who knows haha
Edited by Clogger at 20:18:29 on 16th May 2025
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Re: Our List
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Disagree, Reid and Roberts have shown very little this year to be starters next season. Both been bang average and living off past glories with us.
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Jamie Reid
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Contract Extension! 🤩
https://www.facebook.com/share/16bBBujKuT/
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Re: Our List
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Maybe I'm sentimental? :-)
Still think we are best with firing R&R. Worth another crack. As ever we will see
Edited by Clogger at 20:37:07 on 16th May 2025
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Re: Our List
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Revs hasn't got a tune out of them.
No reason to think he will next season.
Different manager might, but we ain't changing gaffer for the foreseeable.
And they are going to be in the top earnings bracket at Boro.
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Re: Our List
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Reid hasn’t hit the heights of last season, but his 9 goals this season is five more than any other striker we’ve got.
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All true, can't argue. They're still our class players
Dilemma!
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Re: Our List
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I'd rather we kept all of the forwards we didn't loan out last season and give them some creative players to provide with chances.
I think Charlie Goode can be a real asset too after a pre-season, he's been goode a lot more than he hasn't.
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Re: Our List
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He really hasn't.
Slow, doesn't read the play any better than Sweeney, (who also doesn't read the play).
Gives me the impression he's doing the minimum required to keep his job and no more.
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Re: Our List
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He also takes our longs throws which go no further than anyone else's.
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So frustrating, especially when he's our tallest player.
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Get Pidge to take the corners next season.
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No thanks , I am old enough when had Elding,, probably best striker in conf, taking them for most of the season.
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O/T Star Strikers
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We have had lots of strikers and good ones at that, but the following are the ones that stand out as being the sort of talisman star strikers of their time.
Hayles
Elding
Alford
Morison
Godden
They'd win the Best Actor role as opposed to Supporting Actor (like Crawshaw, Maamria, Pearson and many others like Leadbeater, Grazioli, Zoko)
Before my time I assume Gittings was A List.
In our 2nd conference winning season and league two promotion seasons we shared the strikers job and to very good effect with lots of "supporting actors" - the likes of Griffin, Yemi, Boylan, Sills and Beardsley, C. Reid etc and then Rose, Norris and J.Reid.
I don't know what my point was. Just remembering the last time we had a star striker. Reid I suppose is the closest we have come to it recent times, but doesn't make it onto my list. Newton had promised but didn't make it.
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Re: O/T Star Strikers
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You missed BOYLAN
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He was Cambridge's. Only a part player in our film.
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More like Canvey’s.
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Re: Our List
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Southgate had Kane take them... genius.
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Oi! That was Hodgson. Not Sir Gareth
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Re: Our List
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Slow? He's probably our fastest defender, which says a lot.
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I'm 56, I think I'd be our 2nd fastest CB over 20 yards.
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I'd rather have TVC back! But he may come Goode.
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Re: Our List
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Gutted about Edwards. One of our players that was actually exciting to watch and made things happen. Very rarely wasted the ball, but still tried to be creative. Not sure if it was genuinely injuries why he wasn't selected or just didn't fit with what the management wanted. Offered a hell of a lot more than Roberts, that's for sure.
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Oh come now, Rocky, we know full well what the problem is. He was pacey, creative, ran towards goal and looked like he wanted to make things happen - why on EARTH would you think he could possibly fit in HERE?! 🙄😉
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Re: Our List
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Because he has missed most of the past couple of seasons injured, missed most of his time with us injured, and we have just wasted money on JFC being unavailable for the past year injured.
Taking a chance on him (and JFC) made sense, as a club we sometimes have to do that on a player we otherwise wouldn't stand a chance with, but we are a tiny club in L1 and cannot afford to be throwing money at players we are unlikely to see much of.
FWIW, he is the one I was on about when I posted around a week ago about being surprised by one of the players we had released, but not the other two (Smith and JFC) because I thought we may take a chance on him next season, but fully understand why we haven't.
Edited by Chuds at 23:43:53 on 16th May 2025
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Re: Our List
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Sure, all understood and agreed. I saw your previous post too and wondered who you were referring to. I understand the injury situation, but that doesn’t stop the sense of frustration or disappointment that ostensibly excellent players are released whilst some total bilge is still here.
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Re: Our List
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On your last point they are still here as in contract although I assume we will try to offload them if we can.
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I'd get Macaulay Langstaff from Millwall.
Prolific at conference and L2 level. Hasn't made the step up to Championship. L1 might be his ceiling. Get him on loan. Bosh.
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Re: Our List
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I think we should just play 5-5-0
A couple of midfielders who can buy a foul to enable us to lump it in to the box once or twice a game, and 8 big defensively minded players.
Spend the money you would have spent on attacķers on bigger, better defenders.
Rely on clean sheets and headed goals from one of 5 6'4" + defenders from the odd set piece.
Simples. Play to Rev's natural defence focussed strengths.
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 12:38:21 on 17th May 2025
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Re: Our List
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Hopefully we’ve kept the receipt and are trading him in for a replacement that isn’t broken.
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Zero goal contributions Edwards?
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Re: Our List
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Not met Kyle but the following is on my mind...
Obviously talented
Went missing for 1.5 months-ish at end of season. This was his chance to prove his fitness
No idea if any suspicions are fair. Maybe he's broken. Maybe he feels discomfort and cannot play at his best. Bodies are strange. I train to a decent level; sometimes your body feels *knackered*, but you learn you can work through it. You sometimes feel better for it! Not everyone feels the same.
Our staff have made a judgement for the best of the club.
Idiots like me speculating on the internet help nothing at all, but c'est la vie
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Batshit Bonkers Boro
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Simpson? Pressley? This has to be a piss take> what fucking planet is whoever drew up this list on?
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Yes, I must admit I snorted in disbelief to see Edwards and JFC ridded off, but Pressley and Simpson retained. Couldn’t make it up really, could you?
(And yes, I do understand *why* Edwards/JFC might have been binned, but still…!)
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Re: Batshit Bonkers Boro
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They are retained because they are still under contract, otherwise they would be in the same boat as the other two. But at least they are able to actually make the matchday squad on a regular basis.
Edited by Chuds at 23:46:04 on 16th May 2025
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Re: Batshit Bonkers Boro
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Hopefully not. I'd sooner have JFC clapping from the dug-out than Simpson f*cking things up on the pitch. But yes I appreciate that he and Elvis are under contract, though hopefully we can ship one or both of them out.
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Re: Batshit Bonkers Boro
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Sir do you know how a contract works
I’m fairly sure if we get an offer in they’re gone.
Edited by CDawg at 17:22:46 on 16th May 2025
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Re: Batshit Bonkers Boro
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When a player is under contract you can't just get rid of them. Well you can, but you'd have to pay them out their contract. So you may as well keep them and offer them to other clubs.
Note it was termed players under contract. Not players we really want to keep.
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Re: Batshit Bonkers Boro
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On that and as others have suggested assume we may offload Simpson and Pressley , even on frees, if we can .As I said not sure how Pressley in contract anyway, my fault
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Re: Our List
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The list is out:
Says he's still in talks?
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Re: Our List
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Only real surprise is that Pressley has been retained (and Simpson but assumed that he was under contract).
A solid enough base to build upon in the transfer market.
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Unless we get Richard Kone or equivalent I think we will struggle to get out of the U bend next season
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Some of them will likely be told "you're under contract but you won't be in our plans, knock yourself out looking for a move and we'll let you go for nothing if it helps you get playing again, or we'll loan you out or you can train with the academy lads.
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Re: Our List
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They said Elvis in contract although I thought there was just an option, see other posts.
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Be nice if we can unload Pressley and Simpson. Little surprised about Edwards but clearly they don't want injury prone players I guess
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Re: Our List
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The only suprise for me is JFC, but we can't afford to hold on to injury prone players.
A solid core for next season and time for Revs to sign some creativity!
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Re: Our List
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*wingers
Sign two wingers. Play 442 with Young and Appéré up front. It'll be like peak Chester with Clare and Stamp. Both with get 20+ goals and we'll be top 6 easy.
But no, it's more fashionable to pass it around the back, creating nothing.
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I'd hire you as Manager on this post alone.
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Ive seen Appere have 3 good games.
Two of them were against us.
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Maybe the teams he played for against us played to his strengths. I'd get rid of both if we intend to continue to play the way that lead us to barely having a shot on target each game.
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Re: Our List
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we can't afford to hold on to injury prone players
Quite.
We don't have the headroom for sentiment or the hope that an injury-prone player will get a decent run. Harsh reality of being a club our size at this level. Need the wages for someone who'll play and can hopefully improve the team (as JFC did/would) on a consistent basis.
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Re: Our List
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And we are still in talks with List and Freeman both seem strange to me for different reasons.
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Re: Our List
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What is there to negotiate with Freeman? Be lucky to play again before new year. Let him recuperate at club but not with a contract surely.With List I have no problem if he goes. We need more quality in the squad
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No surprise.
Don't even remember where Evans was on loan at, but he never popped up for regularly scoring (so would fit in with our strikers etc.).
And whilst Hicks may have seemed highly rated, and looked reasonable enough whenever I saw him, being loaned out to clubs like Potters Bar is far too low of a level to have made it for us in League One, unless he ran the game regularly. And when I watched Biggleswade Town beat Potters Bar in the FA Trophy this season, he was pretty anonymous.
Suspect they will end up joining the long list of our former Academy players who go on to spend their career playing locally at Steps 2-4, which is still decent enough, but far off the levels of League One football.
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Re: Our List
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Sure from previous club announcements Pressley and Goode also were also out of contract but both with one yr options ? Not sure how it works but if true how at least was Pressleys triggered?
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Re: Our List
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Edit: Actually no, will leave for the club to officially confirm the others.
Edited by Chuds at 13:08:00 on 8th May 2025
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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Interesting to see a number of ex players being released lower down the leagues - Tom Pett, Luke Norris, Steve Arnold..
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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Makes me feel old.
I remember Tom Pett coming here (from Potters Bar?) all fresh-faced.
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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Another good player we got from non league.
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Came from Wealdstone, home of the raider. But having looked he was at Potters Bar before then.
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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You want some?
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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Christy Pym released, what a shame.
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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How many clubs is TBC being retained by?
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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Since when was "Players invited back for pre-season" a category alongside Retained, Released, Talks ongoing?
I assume it means "We dont want you, you're released but if you cant find another club, pop back in and if we are really desperate and haven't replaced youwe might offer you half a season on a reduced wage because you'll be desperate for a job"
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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Prove fitness perhaps?
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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Yep, perhaps JFC a good example .
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Re: lLeague 1 - Latest Retained List
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According to many on here all our players should be in that category
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