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I thought (someone will correct me if I'm wrong) we could still offer our players new contracts (up to the £7k a week cap)

To be the 6th 'biggest' city by population in the UK. And being slap bang in the middle of the UK with the M1 running through it. It is pretty dyer we couldn't make it as one of the 22 host stadiums. Massive opportunity missed for the city again. As fans travel to Bristol and Wrexham and Cardiff and Nottingham and fill their local businesses tills instead. Roll on preferred bidder Roll on some investment Got to be better times ahead

Whilst I dont disagree people seem to be claiming this is going to be easy. Like there are going to be 15 out of contract players at the end of this season who tick the boxes of being very good for league one, potentially having some re-sale value, having some experience, that aren't going to be snapped up by other clubs. Then throw 4 or 5 premier league amass style loan players (which i think might be easier than the permanent signings to be honest). All these 15-20 will play positions that means as a squad we have the right balance. They're all going to gel quickly together and work well as a team not just individual players. And we're going to know who they are and have scouted them, and can afford them. We know Henrik has been instrumental in bringing some players in, but when a takeover happens there'll be uncertainty about whether he stays on or not (as new owners often bring their own people in). So we possibly are starting from fresh with no structure or staff currently looking at these players or making contact with their agents... (again, agents should be keeping an eye on Hillsborough if their players are coming to end of contract and want to go play at a massive club with potential of success, but) Lets all be patient while we enjoy the journey

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Do you still have faith we can stay up this season? Credit to the optimism if so, I didn't know there were any believers left out there!

KW said the other day that stripes on the back are condemned nowadays and won't be seen again (unless its covered mainly by a giant patch for the shirt number and player name)...

Jack? Academy gk. So 2 gks on bench?!

I feel like we should be allowed to 'fast-forward to takeover announcement' as a fan base.

HP doesn't set us up like though. He asks for only 2 in central midfield with two 10s. So with those players it'd be: Palmer - Cooper - Lowe Fusire - Valery - Bannan - Amass Ingellson - Lowe Cads As soon as Bannan drops deep or roams wide or moves up we look really light in cm, and if Valery also ends up covering rb/defensively (if fusire gets caught out up field or palmer needs help) we have no central midfield. I'd much prefer to see it as @Geörge Whitebread has put it with Ingellson told to stay in cm. But then I'd take jamal lowe out and put 2 up top, cads and ugbo together

Any other team looking to get out of league one next season would be looking at having a squad with plenty of players that have pace and power and energy and skill yes. But also they'd be looking at people with experience, know how, composure, calmness. Who's got out of the league before? Who's consistently played at league one/championship level for many years? Who's handled high pressure situations? Wembley finals. Big fan base with high expectations. The miracle of Hillsborough, anyone? They'd all be wanting to sign a Liam Palmer and a Barry Bannan. And some in our fan base want us to sack them off?! Baffling.

This. As much as we can expect to have wealthy new owners who know their way around a football team (or have brought in people that do). 1. It'll take time to set up that structure. 2. Our squad is threadbare. If other players leave us at the end of their contracts we could be looking at needing 15 new signings. Talking about releasing players without knowing if/when we can replace them (and with what quality) seems a bit premature to me.

Sorry, I don't understand, you're saying prospective buyers would have been more interested in buying us if our fans hadn't left in injury time when we were 3-0 down?

I thought it was sentimentalism? In all seriousness I want us to progress of course. I dont think that happens by just nuke-ing everything though and saying 'clean slate'. I trust our new owners will have a plan and improve us dramatically over a few seasons. I dont see them doing that by culling the likes of bannan or palmer without the ability to replace them

Disagree. He'd be fine in league one. And at risk of asking too many times. Who are you replacing him with? Who are you getting instead? Realising we're not debating the OP, its got nothing to do with sentiment. One of us thinks hes a good enough player to have in the squad next season and one of us doesn't...