Mr Tea808 wrote: ↑02 Nov 2022, 19:15
Great win last evening,very surprised as I thought we'd lose,so fair play,6-1 is emphatic,never saw it coming, don't think any fan did!,I'm not trying to be negative,but all the loan players gets me, they aren't and probably never will be our players,I still believe it papers over the cracks,and Johnson's recruitment in the summer was piss poor,it's needed the players from last season to really dig him out of a hole,add to that a few decent loan signings,what's going to happen when they leave I'm not so sure?,maybe Ellis will return on a permanent basis?,Omar will be released soon I reckon,Halstead is a solid keeper and just needed a confidence boost,think Marshall,Donnellan,McGavin,Hanson,Andrews ALL need shipping out,I'd worry a bit playing Ellis,Moxey,Hall, Lapslie all the time as they need protecting from age/Injury's,but all of them are solid, quality pros esp at this level,Goodwin and Jarvis are a working progress for me,I may get pelters for this,but not entirely sure about either of them to net 20 a season for me,it's a lot more positive after last night,but still a heck of a lot of work to do,but the spine of the team looked a lot better,and formation was right
crikey, you like commas.
anyway - recruitment has (thus far) not been shown to be a massive success, although I maintain that the majority of these players will be decent, certainly next season. We've already seen that Jarvis is clearly a player to be reckoned with at this level - i think with a good pre-season and luck with injuries, he could definitely be a 20 goal a season guy. Donnellan was a revelation at right back the other night. Hanson has had issues following concussion so for me it's too soon to write him off entirely (and I believe we actually paid a fee for him so presumably he's on at least 2 years) - and since he came in I've assumed that the club view him as the long-term replacement for Asa Hall. We've not seen enough of Andrews to say, although the first 20 minutes vs Oldham were encouraging, and if Goodwin does go back in January we'll need him. Marshall is a bit of a mentalist but we've looked more secure with him than with Omar.
On the loan side, yes - I think we have 7 or 8 with us right now, and given that we can only include 5 in any matchday squad, that's too many. I would not be at all surprised if at least one of those ends up being permanent - Mark Ellis is 34/35 now, and probably not going to break back into the Barrow team, so a contract till at least the end of the season might be doable. Wearne clearly likes it here, and he's not playing at Grimsby, so depending on what sort of deal he's on there he
might be persuaded to come here under contract as well.
Goodwin, Evans and I think Scott Smith are all loaned till at least January. Goodwin is great, we should try to keep him - but Stoke might look at getting him league experience in the new year. Evans was starting to look pretty decent until his injury so I'd like to seem him stay once recovered. Feels like Smith could be odd man out, despite not really having done anything wrong.
We'll want to keep Da Silva beyond his initial loan, although I don't know whether that was month or longer. Ness has made a good impression so far, but despite his rushes of blood to the head, Marshall should be good enough (especially if he does have Ellis alongside him), so I'd not be surprised to see Ness return home sooner. I think Okoli has been sent back.
If you look at the players we signed last summer, the majority of them are young players who should improve - especially given Gary Johnson's record. It sucks when players bugger off elsewhere, but all of Little, Cameron, Whitfield, Nemane, MacDonald improved greatly while here (even Umerah and Waters seem to have kicked on, although hard to say if being with us helped) - it's reasonably to expect at some improvement from players like Jarvis, Andrews, Crowe, Hanson and Marshall. You only have to look to Dan Martin to see that rarely is the situation totally unrescuable.