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by T-Rex Stag » Mon May 13, 2019 8:14 pm
MTFCMusings wrote:T-Rex Stag wrote:I would get rid of:
Mellis
MacDonald
Logan
Rose
Retain \ offer deals to:
Atkinson
Khan
Olejnik
Turner
Interested to hear your justification on keeping Atkinson and binning Mellis?
With the limited amount of time he has been given Atkinson has always done well. Needs more opportunities.
Personally not a fan of Mellis, with his supposed quality he should be dominating midfield play, taking a game by the scruff of the neck. Been woeful
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by MTFCMusings » Mon May 13, 2019 8:16 pm
T-Rex Stag wrote:MTFCMusings wrote:T-Rex Stag wrote:I would get rid of:
Mellis
MacDonald
Logan
Rose
Retain \ offer deals to:
Atkinson
Khan
Olejnik
Turner
Interested to hear your justification on keeping Atkinson and binning Mellis?
With the limited amount of time he has been given Atkinson has always done well. Needs more opportunities.
Personally not a fan of Mellis, with his supposed quality he should be dominating midfield play, taking a game by the scruff of the neck. Been woeful
Ok fair enough.
Personally don’t see the point in keeping Atkinson (who won’t want to say anyway) when we already have similar midfielders at the club, over Mellis who is frustrating at times but is our most creative player.
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by bobbystagsfan » Mon May 13, 2019 8:18 pm
Mellis has been much better under flitcroft than Evans. I would just about keep him for another season. We don't have anyone as creative as him in midfield
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by Fitzy499 » Tue May 14, 2019 10:14 am
bobbystagsfan wrote:Mellis has been much better under flitcroft than Evans. I would just about keep him for another season. We don't have anyone as creative as him in midfield
Completely agree, Melli’s has improved no end under DF we need to keep him imo
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by PEAR CIDER » Tue May 14, 2019 10:29 am
Fitzy499 wrote:bobbystagsfan wrote:Mellis has been much better under flitcroft than Evans. I would just about keep him for another season. We don't have anyone as creative as him in midfield
Completely agree, Melli’s has improved no end under DF we need to keep him imo
He dropped off when he needed to play deeper, but as a midfielder up the pitch he is awesome
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by Tippy Tappy Football » Tue May 14, 2019 10:51 am
Jacob Mellis was playing far too deep in the 1st half against Newport.
Will Atkinson played very well when he came on and it made you wonder why DF had not made more use of him.
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by lifestags » Tue May 14, 2019 11:09 am
Im sure i read that all the new players signed 2 years last summer.
Will rule out players like Davies, Khan leaving.
I think we could build our team around Khan to be honest, he was very unfortunate to not be given a chance when Grant came in.
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by bmthstag » Tue May 14, 2019 11:31 am
Has it been announced yet when the retained list will be published?
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by west country stag » Tue May 14, 2019 11:32 am
MTFCMusings wrote:T-Rex Stag wrote:I would get rid of:
Mellis
MacDonald
Logan
Rose
Retain \ offer deals to:
Atkinson
Khan
Olejnik
Turner
Interested to hear your justification on keeping Atkinson and binning Mellis?
Atkinsons a better footballer than Mellis ( who gives the ball away to easily )
WEST COUNTRY'S No 1 FAN
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by lifestags » Tue May 14, 2019 11:35 am
west country stag wrote:MTFCMusings wrote:T-Rex Stag wrote:I would get rid of:
Mellis
MacDonald
Logan
Rose
Retain \ offer deals to:
Atkinson
Khan
Olejnik
Turner
Interested to hear your justification on keeping Atkinson and binning Mellis?
Atkinsons a better footballer than Mellis ( who gives the ball away to easily )
Really? You honestly think Will Atkinson is a better footballer then Jacob Mellis?
In my opinion Mellis has been our only creative player at times. Finished the season on 10 assists (more then anybody)
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by MTFCMusings » Tue May 14, 2019 11:47 am
west country stag wrote:MTFCMusings wrote:T-Rex Stag wrote:I would get rid of:
Mellis
MacDonald
Logan
Rose
Retain \ offer deals to:
Atkinson
Khan
Olejnik
Turner
Interested to hear your justification on keeping Atkinson and binning Mellis?
Atkinsons a better footballer than Mellis ( who gives the ball away to easily )
Your opinion of course, but I suspect 90% would disagree.
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by WVStag » Tue May 14, 2019 11:52 am
west country stag wrote:MTFCMusings wrote:T-Rex Stag wrote:I would get rid of:
Mellis
MacDonald
Logan
Rose
Retain \ offer deals to:
Atkinson
Khan
Olejnik
Turner
Interested to hear your justification on keeping Atkinson and binning Mellis?
Atkinsons a better footballer than Mellis ( who gives the ball away to easily )
Blimey.
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by wink68 » Tue May 14, 2019 11:54 am
When Mellis plays well we play well. When we play we'll Mellis looks good. Take your pick which comes first.
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by BH_Stag » Tue May 14, 2019 11:56 am
west country stag wrote:MTFCMusings wrote:T-Rex Stag wrote:I would get rid of:
Mellis
MacDonald
Logan
Rose
Retain \ offer deals to:
Atkinson
Khan
Olejnik
Turner
Interested to hear your justification on keeping Atkinson and binning Mellis?
Atkinsons a better footballer than Mellis ( who gives the ball away to easily )
You’ve got to be kidding!
Atkinson is an average footballer, I don’t really get what he offers? To say he’s better than Mellis after 10 good minutes is crazy. Mellis may give the ball away at times but at least he’s trying to play football, unlike most of the team who resorted to hoofing it. His football brain and technical ability is one of the best in the squad for me. We can’t just have a midfield of workhorses and we already have 3 of those in Bishop, Macca, and Tomlinson.
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by yorkshire stag » Tue May 14, 2019 11:59 am
I would get rid of:
MacDonald
Logan
Rose
Atkinson
Retain \ offer deals to:
Olejnik
Turner
Our time will come
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by kcassellsfootygenius » Tue May 14, 2019 12:05 pm
Personally I would let Macca, Mellis and Atkinson go. I'm 99% sure we will go 352 again and for me a fit Otis Khan should be the front of that midfield 3. But if he is Mellis can't be the extra midfielder with Bish it has to Tomlinson.
Mellis had some great games this year but too often he fades out of games. When you play him deep he isn't strong enough when you push him forward he is often too sloppy.
McDonald isn't a central midfielder he is too erratic. He was very good out wide and we tried to convert him it hasn't worked and now no one knows what he is, including himself.
Atkinson will still be on a decent wage and I think we can get better for the money.
Tomlinson wasn't great in the play offs but definitely needs sticking with.
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by Fitzy499 » Tue May 14, 2019 12:15 pm
bobbystagsfan wrote:Mellis has been much better under flitcroft than Evans. I would just about keep him for another season. We don't have anyone as creative as him in midfield
Completely agree, Melli’s has improved no end under DF we need to keep him imo
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by WVStag » Tue May 14, 2019 12:15 pm
No chance of keeping Mellis now Demps is in charge. That I am sure of.
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by Stafford » Tue May 14, 2019 12:42 pm
WVStag wrote:No chance of keeping Mellis now Demps is in charge. That I am sure of.
Why?
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by Captain Cunno » Tue May 14, 2019 1:01 pm
Who can we actually release ?
Logan
Turner
Atkinson
All rest under contract ?
Grant
Smith
Jones
Walker
Go back
These are my opinions , if you don't like them I have others...
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by robeyre » Tue May 14, 2019 1:02 pm
Well thats all this up in the air now
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by BH_Stag » Tue May 14, 2019 1:25 pm
robeyre wrote:Well thats all this up in the air now
Hope he’s more of a Mellis style than an Atkinson style!
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by WVStag » Tue May 14, 2019 1:29 pm
Stafford wrote:WVStag wrote:No chance of keeping Mellis now Demps is in charge. That I am sure of.
Why?
Can't imagine Mellis/anyone we've got that's actually good wanting to play under Demps. That's before you've even considered what looks to be a certain budget cut.
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by cerfjaune » Tue May 14, 2019 1:36 pm
I would suspect that JD already has his retained list, just as I suspect the managerial change isn’t just a knee-jerk reaction from JR.
I’m not attributing Machiavellian motivation to the decision, but JR is a businessman, and a very successful one. He didn’t get where he is by being sentimental. I’ve never met him, and I’m prepared to accept that he’s a nice guy and a genuine fan. But I’d guess there’s a ruthless streak in him, and that he is decisive when need be.
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by Stoney » Tue May 14, 2019 1:37 pm
WVStag wrote:Stafford wrote:WVStag wrote:No chance of keeping Mellis now Demps is in charge. That I am sure of.
Why?
Can't imagine Mellis/anyone we've got that's actually good wanting to play under Demps. That's before you've even considered what looks to be a certain budget cut.
What a daft and totally unfounded post. How do you know Mellis or anybody else doesn't want to play for Dempster?
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