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[RedandWhiteSpartan]

A few surprises I must say, and like people who have commented on social media, very suprised at Jack Powell going, in the last few games he had started to look like the player we had before his injury. Shilow Tracy gone as well! The other that has raised a few eyebrows is Jordan Hodkin being released, I haven't seen him enough to comment, but people seem to think he's a better prospect than Fin Roberts.
I suppose it may be that some of them don't want to stay themselves for whatever reason.
Of those where discussions are on going, then we certainly would miss Lewis Billington and Max Sanders. Pleased to see that Adrian Thibaut is staying.

Thoughts folks?

P.S.
I have to say, that the forum has just about died in the short time that Gazan made the decision to leave and I would like to encourage him to please come back.
Lets try & be pleasant to each other, after all...we all purport to support the Alex.

[Furberstreet]

My immediate thought was that Powell and Tracy (and maybe others) were let go because they are in the high earner bracket and their contracts running out seemed an opportune moment to move them on. Having returned to the first team, I had thought Bogle played decently but perhaps he thought that a fresh start was needed. I was surprised to see Williams departing but my surprise may be due to the reality that I have not been able to see Crewe play anything like as often as I would have wished this season. I vaguely recall seeing/hearing a comment or two about his attitude. I may well be wrong in my recollection, but perhaps he wants to move on to a "bigger" team. I am pleased that Thibaut is staying and I would strongly support Billington and Sanders staying. The paramount issue now is the recruitment for next season. The three loanees were good and I would welcome them back. However, when thinking about recruitment, I am always concerned that we lack the financial resources to make us really competitive in terms of bringing in players of sufficient quality to place us firmly in the promotion places. That said, LB has done well to keep us hovering around the playoff places rather than lower down. The fall away from the playoff spots was, to me at least, inevitable and how do we recruit to counter this? I noted that only one of the scholars has been offered a contract. Is this symptomatic of the Academy not producing enough players of sufficient calibre?

I echo RedandWhiteSpartan's call for Gazan to return. I value his contributions and it is a reality that we may disagree with opinions expressed on here, but we certainly do not all think the same and respect for differing opinions should be the norm.