mikemiller
Vital Football Hero
May as well start it now, as there are likely to be a lot of changes...
We will be starting the 2021/22 season, without the £7 million (?) Championship sponsors money. We know that Wood (!), Kayode and Hull have recently signed new contracts. It has been reported that Smith, Crooks, Olosunde and Robertson have not done. Previously, players who have not signed by now have been shown the door, even if they change their mind.... like Jon Taylor , and even though he missed a lot of sitters, he was more likely to score than Hirst, Ogbene and Josefzoon put together, and may have kept us up in 2020/21 if we had re-signed him. Too late now though.
Of the loan players , I would only be interested in keeping Giles and Wing, but they might not want to stay, now that we have been relegated.... so we may have about half a team left. We still have a manager though (who according to Radio Sheffield is doing a wonderful job!), and he might have to play Kayode, Cooper, Gratton, Hull, etc., whether he likes it or not. Think Tilt has a year left on his contract, plus we should still have Barlaser, Harding, Lindsay, Wiles, plus Johansson. I'm guessing that Clarke and S.MacDonald won't be retained, but given some previous strange decisions regarding injury/illness-prone players- who knows?
Mattock is now playing in our "Billy Jones" role , so if anybody from RUFC is reading this, it might be a good idea to sign a left back (Hint!)... or even two. Please stop playing players out of position - it's a stupid tactic and has significantly contibuted to us getting relegated.
Can we get Purrington back ?
We don't know what the future will bring, but getting back into our traditional routine under Warney, of starting the season by being knocked out of the League Cup Round 1 by a League 2 team, with one of our ex-players scoring the winner in injury time, seems almost inevitavble.
We will be starting the 2021/22 season, without the £7 million (?) Championship sponsors money. We know that Wood (!), Kayode and Hull have recently signed new contracts. It has been reported that Smith, Crooks, Olosunde and Robertson have not done. Previously, players who have not signed by now have been shown the door, even if they change their mind.... like Jon Taylor , and even though he missed a lot of sitters, he was more likely to score than Hirst, Ogbene and Josefzoon put together, and may have kept us up in 2020/21 if we had re-signed him. Too late now though.
Of the loan players , I would only be interested in keeping Giles and Wing, but they might not want to stay, now that we have been relegated.... so we may have about half a team left. We still have a manager though (who according to Radio Sheffield is doing a wonderful job!), and he might have to play Kayode, Cooper, Gratton, Hull, etc., whether he likes it or not. Think Tilt has a year left on his contract, plus we should still have Barlaser, Harding, Lindsay, Wiles, plus Johansson. I'm guessing that Clarke and S.MacDonald won't be retained, but given some previous strange decisions regarding injury/illness-prone players- who knows?
Mattock is now playing in our "Billy Jones" role , so if anybody from RUFC is reading this, it might be a good idea to sign a left back (Hint!)... or even two. Please stop playing players out of position - it's a stupid tactic and has significantly contibuted to us getting relegated.
Can we get Purrington back ?
We don't know what the future will bring, but getting back into our traditional routine under Warney, of starting the season by being knocked out of the League Cup Round 1 by a League 2 team, with one of our ex-players scoring the winner in injury time, seems almost inevitavble.
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