by Gulliball » 03 Mar 2015, 19:13
Chris Hargreaves I am still undecided over, but he has another year under contract and should/almost certainly will get a chance to see that out. It's a massive year for him if he wants to extend his career as a manager. Not many people go upwards after leaving Torquay without being targeted.
Luke Young, Ryan Bowman, Louis Briscoe and Courtney Richards are under contract, so will all be kept. They are amongst our better players too, and in a better side would probably offer more consistency.
MacDonald and Ajala I would offer a longer deal to now. They are consistently our better players and both young enough to develop further too.
After that, it really depends on wages. I would be happy to keep Martin Rice as a number two, but we simply have to replace Seabright in the summer with a bona fide number one goalkeeper. This should be our number one priority as we cannot afford a repeat of the last disastrous 18 months.
Downes, Pearce, Chapell and Cameron are all very good players on their day, but were all signed during our league days, so would probably need a pay cut to fit within our new budget.
One of Yeoman or Ofori-Acheampong might be worth keeping as a fourth choice striker, whichever fits best with the other targets in mind. The non-contractors are too early to say at the moment.
With the rest, we really need a clear out. I cannot see many staying, either because they want to keep their current wage or are not good enough. Hopefully a clear out will help to stop the slide we've been on for three years now and give the manager room to bring in new blood in the Bowman/Young mould rather than trialists and non-contractors.
Chris Hargreaves I am still undecided over, but he has another year under contract and should/almost certainly will get a chance to see that out. It's a massive year for him if he wants to extend his career as a manager. Not many people go upwards after leaving Torquay without being targeted.
Luke Young, Ryan Bowman, Louis Briscoe and Courtney Richards are under contract, so will all be kept. They are amongst our better players too, and in a better side would probably offer more consistency.
MacDonald and Ajala I would offer a longer deal to now. They are consistently our better players and both young enough to develop further too.
After that, it really depends on wages. I would be happy to keep Martin Rice as a number two, but we simply have to replace Seabright in the summer with a bona fide number one goalkeeper. This should be our number one priority as we cannot afford a repeat of the last disastrous 18 months.
Downes, Pearce, Chapell and Cameron are all very good players on their day, but were all signed during our league days, so would probably need a pay cut to fit within our new budget.
One of Yeoman or Ofori-Acheampong might be worth keeping as a fourth choice striker, whichever fits best with the other targets in mind. The non-contractors are too early to say at the moment.
With the rest, we really need a clear out. I cannot see many staying, either because they want to keep their current wage or are not good enough. Hopefully a clear out will help to stop the slide we've been on for three years now and give the manager room to bring in new blood in the Bowman/Young mould rather than trialists and non-contractors.
