The released and retained list yesterday included no real surprises. Hector & Thomas have both played a big part in the unbeaten run that got us out of trouble and should be thanked for that. The big Andy Scott cock up is the loss of Dobbo but we have to get on with it now and teams still get promoted with all sorts of different playing options.
What makes the ( loss of Dobbo) recruitment more challenging is the lack of a spine to the team to build around. No one seems keen on either goalie – although personally I much prefer AMB, we don’t have a dominant centre half , we’ve just lost our key central midfielder and Leaburn has been out injured most of the season. Leaburn can obviously do the job, but we haven’t seen him for a while. The team spine is its most important element and we will need to have a completely new one.
There isn’t that much to build around even though we have some very promising youngsters coming through , like Kanu, Asimwee, Anderson, Small, Casey, Mbick, Nathan will still need to recruit 5 or 6 absolute belters to get us out of this horrible division and its going to be a big challenge.
I hope he doesn’t go too far down the route of ex Luton players and the like. Lua Lua was a disappointment despite Nathan’s comments about his super fitness and rumours about Luke Berry ( 31) and Matt Godden (32) as potential targets concern me a little. We need to ensure that they can still shine at the latter end of their careers.