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Why would anyone want to go to a small club back from the brink of oblivion and which has finished below us in the league again?!

No idea why but Rene seems to be blocking quite a few Plymouth fans on twitter =D

Fonda wrote:There are players, and I'm talking about at the very top of the game (Dimitar Berbatov?) that appear to be lazy and disinterested. It's just their manner. Rene plays with the same swagger. And personally, I'd rather he wasn't expending all his energy chasing lost causes. His efforts were better spent being on the end of the very odd chance we did make. Being the one player in the team that had the faintest idea where the goal was, it was important his energies weren't wasted doing the donkey work that the rest of them should have been doing.

Agreed, the best footballer in the squad, we were able to make the best of his abilities.

Were Rene to leave, just up the road Jamie Cureton could be available. Exeter boss Tisdale has said that due to financial constraints next season he would have to let his top scorer move on if he was offered a better deal.

Bristol Rovers

Doubt we could afford to better his wages there,and even if we could,not sure he's what we need.
Would say last season was his swansong and unlikely to score anything like as many goals next season.
Might go to Rovers perhaps?

Shall we try to hold on to our best player, a guy that scored 16 goals in a relegation-threatened team? Tough call.

With a new manager, a settled midfield and a strike partner, I'd back him to succeed again. It is so clear to see that he is a confidence player. It's no wonder the goals dried up when squad morale left town.

I find it hard to believe that people are so apathetic to Howe leaving. Yes, he has a poor disciplinary record, but realistically which strikers that we've had in the past few years are of the same level technically?

Also, if he were to leave, and by some miracle our new manager (whoever he may be) possesses some unprecedented powers of persuasion and convinces a top striker to join us, that striker is going to need bedding in time. All it would take would be for said quality striker to pick up a niggle in pre-season and get to the big kick off lacking both fitness and cohesion. I am aware Howe misses the first 2 games of next season anyway but I don't see why we aren't aiming to keep him AND bring somebody else (other than Benyon) in.

Howe is a good player and, disciplinary issues aside, most teams in this league would take him if offered, so why would we give him away. At the very least, think of how many penalties we would miss if he left...

I think the majority would love Howe to stay. Those that don't are probably miserable northern terwatts who don't recognise a good player when they see one.....................

Fonda wrote:He was playing up-front in a team that didn't make any chances. How many should he have scored exactly?

Did you mean me?

If so, I would expect a little more than 1 every 10 from open play.

Southampton Gull wrote:I think the majority would love Howe to stay. Those that don't are probably miserable northern terwatts who don't recognise a good player when they see one.....................

Or French

Southampton Gull wrote:I think the majority would love Howe to stay. Those that don't are probably miserable northern terwatts who don't recognise a good player when they see one.....................

Don't get me wrong, i'd love Howe to stay providing he offers more than goals. I know i'll be ridiculed for saying that as he was in a struggling side and still managed that amount but if he doesn't score i would like him quite simply to do what he was doing before Christmas. That was trying to close down play around him ( i don't mean chasing opponents around the pitch like a headless chicken just for the sake of it and knackering himself out as some one suggested that is what i meant, honestly, some people! ). It doesn't take a lot out of a player to press the play around him and put pressure on opponents and that is what he was doing so effectively for the first part of the season and it showed. To play Rene and say do what you want, go and read a newspaper on the halfway line so long as you score now and again is crazy and not ok in my book. Whilst Downsey is sweating blood and getting his body blown apart blocking shots here there and everywhere and others are rolling their sleeves up when the chips are down, Rene saunters around oblivious to the plight, he cannot be allowed to get away with that i'm sorry. If he is prepared to give TUFC the right attitude every game then i have no problems with him being here next season but i just can't forget the extra workload and stress he lumped on his team-mates by his disciplinary issues and laziness these last 10 games or so. It's just not fair. Am i making sense?

Gargs must be deseprate, after reading Rene's tweet they are now talking about Benyon being on a free soon.

Stay away you bloody slime!

I wonder if Rene dares to lurk these forums? If so PLEASE STAY RENE!!!

AustrianAndyGull wrote: Am i making sense?

Do you ever?

Plymgull wrote:Gargs must be deseprate, after reading Rene's tweet they are now talking about Benyon being on a free soon.

Stay away you bloody slime!

Shows how desperate they are, trying to nick players from us! Oh how the mighty have fallen. he he.