'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton 12:48 - Jun 1 with 2239 views | The_Flashing_Smile | Interesting. Pours a bit of cold water on the "everyone can feck off narrative" doesn't it? |  |
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'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 12:49 - Jun 1 with 2211 views | footers | Zero is a number. |  |
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'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 12:50 - Jun 1 with 2198 views | Garv | Two is a number. |  |
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Not in the slightest. (n/t) on 12:50 - Jun 1 with 2165 views | Bloots | |  |
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'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 12:54 - Jun 1 with 2082 views | NthQldITFC | Three. That's the magic number. What does it all mean? |  |
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'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 13:06 - Jun 1 with 1907 views | PositivelyPortman | I’m going 1.5 can stay. |  |
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'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 13:19 - Jun 1 with 1730 views | BlueandTruesince82 | Edwards and? |  |
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'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 13:26 - Jun 1 with 1637 views | jayessess | it's just Edwards |  |
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'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 13:58 - Jun 1 with 1325 views | monty_radio |
'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 13:06 - Jun 1 by PositivelyPortman | I’m going 1.5 can stay. |
If only Dozzer had a right foot, eh! |  |
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'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 13:58 - Jun 1 with 1318 views | longtimefan |
'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 13:26 - Jun 1 by jayessess | it's just Edwards |
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'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 14:07 - Jun 1 with 1249 views | gordon | Isn't it one - Edwards? |  | |  |
'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 14:12 - Jun 1 with 1191 views | Churchman | 45. All is forgiven. It’s no doubt rubbish conjecture, but I do begin to wonder whether Cook’s ‘see ya later’ message is just a prompt to see who actually wants to be here and really work at what is going to be a new club, for all intents and purposes. |  | |  |
'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 14:21 - Jun 1 with 1099 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 14:12 - Jun 1 by Churchman | 45. All is forgiven. It’s no doubt rubbish conjecture, but I do begin to wonder whether Cook’s ‘see ya later’ message is just a prompt to see who actually wants to be here and really work at what is going to be a new club, for all intents and purposes. |
A lot of people have suggested this, and Ashton's comments seem to back it up. Maybe some players HAVE stepped up, in whatever way. Brilliant if true. |  |
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'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 14:44 - Jun 1 with 979 views | clive_baker |
'Paul has said number of players he wants to keep', says Ashton on 14:12 - Jun 1 by Churchman | 45. All is forgiven. It’s no doubt rubbish conjecture, but I do begin to wonder whether Cook’s ‘see ya later’ message is just a prompt to see who actually wants to be here and really work at what is going to be a new club, for all intents and purposes. |
I'm not sure why people are having a meltdown that we haven't signed players yet, we're not going to be kicking off the new season with 8, and I'm sure we would all rather sign the right players and take our time in identifying them. We've still got a lot of players at the club, and I think it'll be managed on the basis that we'll sign players on the assumption that we can shift others. There will no doubt be some coming in early, but I think thereafter it'll be a case of making room for new ones. My instinct is that Cook would happily rotate pretty much the whole squad in an ideal world, but we don't live in an ideal world and we don't know how feasible it is that he can identify and attract players to that extent. Looking at the squad list, we've still got Holy, Cornell, Woolfenden, Donacien, Kenlock, Ndaba, Toto, KVY, Nolan, Bishop, Lankester, Downes, Dozzell, El Miz, Dobra, Norwood, Jackson, Hawkins, Drinan. That's 19 players. If we had interest in them I imagine we'll move most on, but that's not a given. We won't be signing loads of players before anyone else leaves. |  |
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