Reply With QuoteNo great surprises for me. I suspect Lancashire’s age (32 vs 29 for Beckles) and injury record counted against him; of course it doesn’t mean that Beckles, Porter et al will accept anew deal. I would want Ainley and Lundstram for sure and, as teammoo suggests, if Omar plays like he did before Christmas he’s well worth keeping I think. Wintle would be top of my list to keep, but it seems that’s highly unlikely and the prospects for retaining Ports and Griffiths must be good.
If all this comes to pass then the manager may not have the sort of recruitment headache that others will and some might expect us to have. We will need at least 3 defenders to replace Perry, Pixie, Nolan and Lancashire from the squad that started the season and a replacement for Powell. Then it depends who leaves and getting in legs to replace them. Which is not to say that any newcomers will be guaranteed starters if some of Offord, Adebisi, Lundstram, Griffiths and Sass-Davies prove up to the mark.
