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Current Squad.

I haven't included Iversen and SVDB who are both obviously quality players, but they aren't ours and either could be pulled from us in January. Also can't judge Olosunde before he's even played.

Not including the young lads that have come through as that's not fair as they're not really first teamers as such yet.

Genuinely quality, proven at this level consistently who I wouldn't want to lose:

Barkhuizen
Cunningham
Rudd
DJ
Browne
Sinclair

Deserve to be here as part of the squad with potential:

Riis
Storey
Ledson
Whiteman
Thomas

Jury still out on Bauer, no idea what effect the injury has had on him.

That leaves the following who are in my opinion not good enough to play for a Championship side:

Hudson
Ripley
Huntington (great servant but times up)
Rafferty
Hughes
Earl (been given enough time, not good enough)
Bayliss
Harrop
Potts
Maguire
Evans

I haven't included Liam Lindsay in any group as I can't make my mind up whether he is a decent, big no nonsense centre back who is useful in both boxes or a complete disaster. He was fucking awful on Saturday though!

It is frightening how much dross we're carrying, rank bad management.
 
California_PNE said:
And you know what, by far a bigger factor than whether theres an individual you'd like to see remaining at pne or you personally rate, is the fact it's so fucking drearily boring watching them. Bored to tears watching them. They're all boring bastards, maybe ledson has a bit about him but otherwise they get me about as excited as a Monday morning.
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It's desperately sad what's unravelling here, the Wembley team had a bit of quality and more importantly pride .
Contrast that to the shower that ruined a lot of people's return to there beloved Deepdale. The young kids in there new kits heartbroken even us older one's who have seen dire times, it still leaves you angry with such a inept performance on such an important occasion.
 
I genuinely believe that if you stick some of our older more experienced players on all at once we may have the nucleus of a good solid team
Say for example,
DJ
Sinclair
Evans
Barky
Browne
Hunts.... Yes i know but still committed
Cunningham

Mix say VDB and Ledson and Riis into it or whomever is your choice and the mix of experience and youth would be quite good.. Other opinions are available 😁
 
tcinders said:
It's desperately sad what's unravelling here, the Wembley team had a bit of quality and more importantly pride .
Contrast that to the shower that ruined a lot of people's return to there beloved Deepdale. The young kids in there new kits heartbroken even us older one's who have seen dire times, it still leaves you angry with such a inept performance on such an important occasion.
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Is it the players who are to blame?
I'm sure they don't go out there not to try but IF WE CAN judge our season on one game and they simply aren't good enough, then you have to look at those further up the chain of command.
 
Let's just hang on a minute! Do all these posters saying we have a mediocre squad actually know anything about football?

Our defacto Director of Football no less, said this last Thursday on the Butter Pie podcast:

“I think the recruitment has been good for what we needed. We believe we have got a very competitive squad here at the moment."
#pnefc https://t.co/uXQuSw6Eht

Are these posters really saying they know better than him?? 🤨
 
California_PNE said:
Yet you're a big defender of the decision makers, if I may say so, and no offense.
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Non taken
never thought I was much of a defender. Just my natural thought process is always to try and view a situation from every angle.
and like every single person on here I have the same hopes and dreams, I guess life’s experiences make you look at things in many different ways, a sort of vantage point
would I like a multi trillion owner who would lavish us with the next 20 goal a season striker, of course, but in the here and now that’s not going to happen so I guess I try to look for anything positive……
 
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Lord Edgington said:
Non taken
never thought I was much of a defender. Just my natural thought process is always to try and view a situation from every angle.
and like every single person on here I have the same hopes and dreams, I guess life’s experiences make you look at things in many different ways, a sort of vantage point
would I like a multi trillion owner who would lavish us with the next 20 goal a season striker, or course, but in the here and now that’s not going to happen so I guess I try to look for anything positive……
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And don’t stop @Lord Edgington 👍🏻
 
I have zero affinity with this squad.

A year of covid, and a total lack of inspiring transfers just leave me thinking I honestly couldn't give a damn if any of them left.

I mean, for practical reasons you'd need a few blokes to show people where the toilets are at Euxton, and so on. So I guess I'd say Iversen, Rudd, and erm.
 
Dreyfuss said:
You're not wrong! Ha. You just know we'll get more defensive injuries soon too. I think our whole wingback philosophy crumbles as soon as Cunningham gets injured.

I know Earl showed glimmers in pre-season but in past seasons he got targeted by the opposition and just was nowhere near championship ability. I just don't see him stepping up.
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Has Cunningham got it in him to get up an down the pitch as a wing back anymore? 🤔 I'm not so sure now, infact I really don't think he has plus how many games would we get out of him anyway??
 
Lord Edgington said:
Non taken
never thought I was much of a defender. Just my natural thought process is always to try and view a situation from every angle.
and like every single person on here I have the same hopes and dreams, I guess life’s experiences make you look at things in many different ways, a sort of vantage point
would I like a multi trillion owner who would lavish us with the next 20 goal a season striker, or course, but in the here and now that’s not going to happen so I guess I try to look for anything positive……
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Not many are asking for a 20 goal a season striker either, which if often the case where nuanced disgruntlement is responded to with comments that miss the point
 
jamesOB said:
I think it says a lot that the only members of the squad I wouldn’t want to lose are the loanees (who we’ll lose anyway) and the youth players. And probably Barky cos I have no confidence the club will bring in a player anywhere close to his quality
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I’ve a lot of time for Barky as I believe a really good coach could get so much more out of him, I know a lot of fans will disagree but I am always happier when his name is on the team sheet , when he is on it’ there ain’t many better in this division, he causes panic and that’s a nice bonus to have .
 
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