Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Time for some wheeler dealing Mr. W.
It's not Mr W who does the wheeler dealing though, is it? That's the recruitment team and the bean counters led by Pearce. PW puts a list together of what type of player/role he requires and includes a wish list of names for those roles. There's also a list of those he'd be happy to see move on and, right now, there has to be names on the exit list as our max allowed 25 man squad is full so there has to be exits before any incoming. That means, obviously, that there will be no signings until at least one player has gone and none have gone yet.

With regard to the Wendy game, a great one for the neutrals. First goal, Bradley beaten for pace, allowing Gassama to cut into the box. At first sight, his pass looked to have crossed the line before being cut back for Bananaman to poke home. Fozzy made up lots of ground but was a foot short of blocking the cross and Kenzo hadn't tracked back with BB.

Their 2nd from Windass was class. He saw JWZ off his line, in fact, out of the box, decided to have a go and in went his 5th goal in 5 successive appearances. To be fair to JWZ, he was where any keeper would be expected to be given where the play was at that time.

Their 3rd from Gassama was also class. He flicked the ball past our defence and is simply too quick for any of our back line to have done owt about it. JWZ was well positioned but Gassama squeezed it past him.

Their 4th. Poor pass/clearance by Nels, Musaba latched onto it, decent parry from JWZ but the rebound fell nicely for Musaba.

Our 2 were decent enough efforts. Prior to them we had a flurry of chances. Wilson might have had a hattrick, Yates hit the post from 4 yards out, their keeper made a flurry of decent saves, 6 to JWZ's 4. We had 17 shots to their 13, both teams had 8 on target. On the whole this game could have gone either way or ended up as a draw based on the balance of play. Had a chat with a Wendy fan mate and we both said 4-4 at HT would have been a reasonable reflection on play.

I hope that Cash is back soon. Paired with that, I also hope we don't don't rush him back too soon and see him break down again. Based on the Wendy game, I also hope that Brown gets a run of starts, especially if we're going to play 2 up top. Even with a one there, surely he can't be a "careless" with chances as Yates has been? Time to "rest" Jackson, IMO.

Ozoh returning would also help us be more resilient.

Exits? I think Wash, if he is prepared to go, and I've seen rumours that he's not willing to go. Ward and maybe CBT as well. Barks is another I think could go.