Bakrin Ladapo Santos Williams Viggars Okechukwu Dench Hand
Offered new Toure Huke
Retained
Bower
Hobden
Kedwell
It is nice Toure has been offered a new deal as he won the Bolangi award a couple of years back so clearly a good egg and has had injuries in his time with us. Hope he signs and can push on.
Huke looked good in the U18s last season with plenty of goals so again seems a sensible one to try to hold onto.
From the little I know of those leaving Adigun and Williams both looked good on the occasion I saw them and I would think have careers in the game; of course good luck to all of them, it must be really tough hearing someone say you are not good enough after the dedication and commitment each will have put in to get this far.
The 3 retained maybe start to get to an age they could do with a loan or some first team time depending on where they are with development.
Overall, reducing the number of kids this way seems sensible as it creates room for those coming through and also room for first teamers out of fitness/form and needing minutes.
With the slightly older age group I really hope we can tie Leaburn and Mitchell down with longer contracts soon and maybe give Casey an extra year or two as well.
With the younger ones it will be interesting to hear who signs pro.
Comments
Successfull U18s step up to U21s.
Squad probably was a bit too big in terms of purely numbers but a lot of those U21s released haven't featured much this seaso
The other way of looking at it is that it leaves room for signings like Maclorg, Cant and Phillips plus some Mount Pleasant lads.
Need @Scoham to give us an updated squad list🤞
It is nice Toure has been offered a new deal as he won the Bolangi award a couple of years back so clearly a good egg and has had injuries in his time with us. Hope he signs and can push on.
Huke looked good in the U18s last season with plenty of goals so again seems a sensible one to try to hold onto.
From the little I know of those leaving Adigun and Williams both looked good on the occasion I saw them and I would think have careers in the game; of course good luck to all of them, it must be really tough hearing someone say you are not good enough after the dedication and commitment each will have put in to get this far.
The 3 retained maybe start to get to an age they could do with a loan or some first team time depending on where they are with development.
Overall, reducing the number of kids this way seems sensible as it creates room for those coming through and also room for first teamers out of fitness/form and needing minutes.
With the slightly older age group I really hope we can tie Leaburn and Mitchell down with longer contracts soon and maybe give Casey an extra year or two as well.
With the younger ones it will be interesting to hear who signs pro.
The club may feel that there are decent players at other clubs we can pick up.