Wilde 3 wrote:I agree with Thompson, I wouldn't renew his contract. Doesn't do enough for me. Getting his nose through the line with a change of speed once every three or four games doesn't cut it with me
As i pointed out earlier in the season, made more tackles (by over a 100) than our marquee signing and that was with limited time on the filed, often not coming on until in the second half.
The problem is Radford doesn't want speedy/agile forwards, he can't adopt a game plan for that and thus Thompson, Pritchard are/were wasted, indeed Abdull won't fit into Radford's crash, bang, wallop type of play and we'll go for another overpaid plodder instead of utlising the talents of JA.
if either of our halves get injured we don't have a recognised half to replace them, we got rid of our academy halves Reece Dean/HTW remember then CT can do a job, maybe even Connor at a push but given how Griffin has being a dissapointment pushing CT or Connor into a HB role to cover for injury isn't ideal.
if JA rejoins us for next season in a starting 13 role I'd be surprised, as for Ellis, I think he's done, IF we were to play him it would have to be on a hugely reduced contract because of the risk I feel he poses injury wise, coaching/support role I'd have him in a heartbeat.
if somehow we could retain him to play a handful of games next year on a limited playing contract but mostly in a support/back room role then that would give us the best of both worlds.
ATEOTD only a select few will have an inkling as to what will actually happen.