Only think BWP, Jackson and Eliot have the best chance of keeping their place in the 1st choice starting line up. Looks like a completly reformed team. Who's who? will be the question vs welling.
BWP & Jacko are the only two who deserve to keep their place.
Elliot,Solly,Waggy, Are all good back-up but have shown us over the last two seasons that they are NOT going to contribute "enough" to get this team out of league one.
I said to Powell at the Bromley meeting that only BWP & Jackson would get into the Soton team & if we had any expectation of getting automatic promotion we needed 9 1st team replacements.
He said "well that's your opinion" , but I hoped that he agreed with me but couldn't say so.
Imagine BWP and Jackson will be automatic first choice in the 11.
Solly and Elliot very close, if Elliot stays of course.
Waggy and Benson will have big roles to play but may not start straight away, expecting more improvement from both and imho both can do a good job at this level Doc and Dailly (if they both are here in August) will be squad players imho.
Id say its pretty likely we will also get euell back seen as he is now training with us. We still need a 4th striker. A rough idea but something like this...
I'm sure injuries will mean that some will be playing a more prominent part than we may have expected - there are bound to be some surprises along the way as well...you never know, one of our less high profile players already at the club might turn out to be our star of the season.....with the best will in the world, this is football and predicting the future isn't a simple business at all!
After one of our atrocious performances under Powell last season, I reported on CL a comment made to me by a senior boardroom figure that we shouldn't worry because only three of the starting XI that day would still be in the first XI next season.
I passed the info on to CL because it came from the top and I thought other supporters would be heartened to know that a mass clear-out of the previous manager's squad and the recruitment of a dozen or more players was part of the new regime's plan. For my pains I got told I was an idiot who knew nothing.
Well, it was true I didn't know anything. I was only repearting what I had been told, and people are right to be sceptical of these things. Even the highest sources aren't always right because circs might alter - for example, after Dailly's third sending off last season, the same source also told me Dailly would be going. That may yet turn out to be wrong.
But the new owners have kept the promise they made to Powell that he'd have funds to bring in an entire new team. Total respect to them for that. Now it's down to him to deliver. And in answer to a question posed in another thread, I'm told November will be judgement time.
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BWP deffo will..........still need a couple more options up front.
c'mon Powell...............sort it out !!!!!!
if you mean in the squad, rather than team, then BWP, Jackson, Waggy, Solly, Benson and Doherty
if team just the first two, the rest on the bench until needed and Waggy will be first game, as LA alludes to (Green suspended)
BWP & Jacko are the only two who deserve to keep their place.
Elliot,Solly,Waggy, Are all good back-up but have shown us over the last two seasons that they are NOT going to contribute "enough" to get this team out of league one.
I said to Powell at the Bromley meeting that only BWP & Jackson would get into the Soton team & if we had any expectation of getting automatic promotion we needed 9 1st team replacements.
He said "well that's your opinion" , but I hoped that he agreed with me but couldn't say so.
I think he agreed :-)
Used to get dropped every year (even when he was manager) for new players but always fought his way back in.
There will be one or two others who will lift their game or the new boys won't be up to much/injured.
Imagine BWP and Jackson will be automatic first choice in the 11.
Solly and Elliot very close, if Elliot stays of course.
Waggy and Benson will have big roles to play but may not start straight away, expecting more improvement from both and imho both can do a good job at this level Doc and Dailly (if they both are here in August) will be squad players imho.
Id say its pretty likely we will also get euell back seen as he is now training with us. We still need a 4th striker. A rough idea but something like this...
Eliot
solly taylor morrison evina
green alonso stephens jackson
BWP benson
Sullivan
New RB Taylor Morrison Wiggins
Green Hollands Stephens JJ
BWP Hayes
Subs (choice of): Elliott, Evina, New CB, Alonso, Benson, Solly, New CF, Waggy
I passed the info on to CL because it came from the top and I thought other supporters would be heartened to know that a mass clear-out of the previous manager's squad and the recruitment of a dozen or more players was part of the new regime's plan. For my pains I got told I was an idiot who knew nothing.
Well, it was true I didn't know anything. I was only repearting what I had been told, and people are right to be sceptical of these things. Even the highest sources aren't always right because circs might alter - for example, after Dailly's third sending off last season, the same source also told me Dailly would be going. That may yet turn out to be wrong.
But the new owners have kept the promise they made to Powell that he'd have funds to bring in an entire new team. Total respect to them for that. Now it's down to him to deliver. And in answer to a question posed in another thread, I'm told November will be judgement time.