Retained List

[WVStag]

I can respect that football is a game of opinions and that everyone's interpretation of the retained list will be different. But I can't for the life of me understand how people think it's all red and rosey just because the retained list says exactly what we knew before, that the majority of players are under contract. Players who are under contract can still leave for a fee.

As one poster has already said, a big indicator of the strength of the budget/pull of the manager will be measured in the replacement for Walker and CJ if he ends up going as well.

[kcassellsfootygenius]

So with current personnel and I know CJ will probably go but if we started with a fully fit squad tomorrow to optimise Hamilton and Khan you could go

Olejnik

White Pearce Sweeney / Preston Benning

Bishop Tomlinson

McDonald Khan Hamilton

Rose / Davies

If you can make a Danny Hylton type that front man all the better but if that was our starting line up I would have no complaint.

Don't see the big budget or crisis flap. Long way to go until August but we need to give it a bit of time.

[pemill]

So with current personnel and I know CJ will probably go but if we started with a fully fit squad tomorrow to optimise Hamilton and Khan you could go

Olejnik

White Pearce Sweeney / Preston Benning

Bishop Tomlinson

McDonald Khan Hamilton

Rose / Davies

If you can make a Danny Hylton type that front man all the better but if that was our starting line up I would have no complaint.

Don't see the big budget or crisis flap. Long way to go until August but we need to give it a bit of time.

Sorry to say we won't be challenging for anything with that strike force.
Rose isn't a goal scorer, he's proven that. Don't know enough about Davies but he doesn't seem a 20+ striker from the little I have seen of him.

[MTFCMusings]

So with current personnel and I know CJ will probably go but if we started with a fully fit squad tomorrow to optimise Hamilton and Khan you could go

Olejnik

White Pearce Sweeney / Preston Benning

Bishop Tomlinson

McDonald Khan Hamilton

Rose / Davies

If you can make a Danny Hylton type that front man all the better but if that was our starting line up I would have no complaint.

Don't see the big budget or crisis flap. Long way to go until August but we need to give it a bit of time.

Sorry to say we won't be challenging for anything with that strike force.
Rose isn't a goal scorer, he's proven that. Don't know enough about Davies but he doesn't seem a 20+ striker from the little I have seen of him.

Not necessarily needed, Lincoln didn't have one.

[pemill]

It's a shame Ajose is so badly down on confidence, he made things happen up front and got in some unselfish assists.

Always liked Hemmings 14 goals and 3 assists in a bottom 2, relegated, now non-league team, shower of raspberry like Counteh.

Obviously there's others out there out of contract

[daddycool]

I would take Hemmings

[marker_mtfc95]

Me too.

[bobbystagsfan]

I would take Hemmings

I'll pass. it took him about 8 good chances for him to bag one

he also missed a lot of sitters. not a terrible player, but I'd go for someone else

[kyle b]

Heard flitcroft wanted hemmings. Dodged a bullet there

[Captain Cunno]

Whatever fee we get for CJ must without doubt go on 2 forwards

Rowe at Fylde
Hylton at Luton

[BH_Stag]

Whatever fee we get for CJ must without doubt go on 2 forwards

Rowe at Fylde
Hylton at Luton

Agree, any fee’s have to be spent on the strikers. We’ve got 40 goals to replace with Walker and probably CJ leaving. Would absolutely love to get Danny Hylton, he’s exactly what you need at this level. Whether we can attract him to the club or not is a different matter, would take big money.

[cassellswasmagic]

Couldn’t agree more. It’s good strikers that get you out of the lower divisions!!!

[Spiritater]

I would take Hemmings

I'll pass. it took him about 8 good chances for him to bag one

he also missed a lot of sitters. not a terrible player, but I'd go for someone else

To have a strikeforce with that extra lethality needed to progress the club does not involve signing Hemmings. Too many chances needed to score. I'm afraid if he'd have been leading our line this season we'd have struggled to even make the playoffs.

[Sandy Pate Best Stag]

Reuben Reid is out of contract/released and could make a good second striker. I think we would still need a main man but Rueben is always worth a goal or penalty.

[Conker]

I think Cullen is worth a go, Bradford bound maybe.

[Sedgwick]

Whatever fee we get for CJ must without doubt go on 2 forwards

Rowe at Fylde
Hylton at Luton

Rowe looked very non league in the playoffs.. don't know how he bags so many goals

Hylton is on the cards according to the twitter know it all

[Amber Andy]

Whatever fee we get for CJ must without doubt go on 2 forwards

Rowe at Fylde
Hylton at Luton

I agree but not Rowe.

[bobbystagsfan]

Whatever fee we get for CJ must without doubt go on 2 forwards

Rowe at Fylde
Hylton at Luton

Rowe looked very non league in the playoffs.. don't know how he bags so many goals

Hylton is on the cards according to the twitter know it all

we've taken punts on non league strikers in Palmer, Yussuf, Sterling-James and none of them have come up any good. I would hope we would try to sign a proven league goalscorer like hylton.

[yorkshire stag]

Hylton is a gun for hire, whoever pays the most he will sign

the pantomime villain every opposition fan loves to hate as he smashes the winning goal from a dodgy penalty foul lol

[bobbystagsfan]

Hylton is a gun for hire, whoever pays the most he will sign

the pantomime villain every opposition fan loves to hate as he smashes the winning goal from a dodgy penalty foul lol

I would still take him. You love him when he's yours, hate him when he's against you.

Has scored loads of goals at this level and has been promoted from this level. There'll be loads of teams trying to get his signature.

[Tippy Tappy Football]

I see Iyrwah Gooden is another U21 to be released. He previously played for Ipswich and Colchester.

[MTFCMusings]

I see Iyrwah Gooden is another U21 to be released. He previously played for Ipswich and Colchester.

Where are you finding this Tippy?

The club are useless on informing us of youth and backroom staff departures.

[marker_mtfc95]

All on Twitter mate.

[stagmanrob]

Surprised Hakeem got released, with JD having worked with him for 4 seasons.
You'd expect a youth teamer having been in and around the first team for as long as he has now would have had more of a chance.

Thats probably the point. They rate blake higher than hakeem (different positions i know), and Hakeem hadnt progressed enough during his loan stints.

He was always going this season

What's happening with Nyle Blake? He's not named on the list. Anyone know?

[MTFCMAD]

The clubs coverage of the under 21 and 18s is bordering on useless.

The youth team profiles on the main website won’t be updated for another five months and hardly any of them have a bio about them.

Even timi Elsnik and Calum Butcher still play for us apparently.

Tbh the main websites a joke, not very organised and you can tell it’s not taken seriously at the club.