And another goes

[Tarbie]

Not worried we have not got rid of any first teamers just the squad fillers. No doubt all will have recall clauses

all will benefit from loans and come back better. Good window for me

Don't think we are allowed to recall anyone outside of the window mate. The squad as it stands at midnight is how it is until the summer. Only way to sign players after the window shuts is if they are without a club.

[hal9thou]

6 players have now been loaned out and 1 sold with none coming in. If there are any new injuries or suspensions will there be any players left to name as subs on matchdays?

On the plus side it could mean that dem yout get a look in when the cupboard runs bare. Which a lot of people are in favour of.....

The only real error of judgement in my book was Chair.

[stanistheman]

Not worried we have not got rid of any first teamers just the squad fillers. No doubt all will have recall clauses

all will benefit from loans and come back better. Good window for me

Oteh and Chair have provided cover in recent weeks and could be needed in weeks to come.

Hemed is still injured and Smith provides no mobility so that is particularly baffling.
Chair provides some creativity and as we saw in recent games that without Luongo the midfield is not creating chances, so it would have been useful to be able to give Chair some more game time at this level as an alternative.

[Tarbie]

Oteh and Chair have provided cover in recent weeks and could be needed in weeks to come.

Hemed is still injured and Smith provides no mobility so that is particularly baffling.
Chair provides some creativity and as we saw in recent games that without Luongo the midfield is not creating chances, so it would have been useful to be able to give Chair some more game time at this level as an alternative.

Yeah, don't disagree mate. The volume of players that have gone out is crazy. It's a big risk.

I'm guessing we either needed to reduce some costs so not to fall foul of FFP again, or MacLaren has his eye on next season. Maybe he needs these players to gain some experience.

As things stand we will be losing Hemed, Wells, Pawel, Bidwell, Lynch, Cameron and Rangel (plus a few other fringe players) in the summer. Its not inconceivable with our current spending power that the likes of Oteh and Chair might be first 11 next year.

[lymehoop]

must be saving at least £30k a week?

[Ranger-JimBob]

Also just announced that Baptiste is being loaned out to Luton Town.

Have a feeling all these players being loaned out are to free up some money for a big rest of season loan. Otherwise why else are we getting rid out all our depth?

[qprjeff1882]

Also just announced that Baptiste is being loaned out to Luton Town.

Have a feeling all these players being loaned out are to free up some money for a big rest of season loan. Otherwise why else are we getting rid out all our depth?

Can't sign anyone now as the window has "slammed shut".

[qprjeff1882]

This has been a great window for me. Kept our most important players and our best youngsters are all going to get regular (hopefully) game time with other clubs to gain valuable experience. This leaves space for other young players to show what they can do and hopefully rise to the challenge like Oteh, Chair, Smyth etc. All those worrying that the ones that have gone out will leave us short.... We've had injuries for the last two months. How many appearances NOT in the cup have these young players made? There have only been the odd sub appearance between them. Its better they play proper football for the rest of the season rather than train with us and sit on the bench. Didn't do Eze any harm did it!!

[Pinkie]

This has been a great window for me. Kept our most important players and our best youngsters are all going to get regular (hopefully) game time with other clubs to gain valuable experience. This leaves space for other young players to show what they can do and hopefully rise to the challenge like Oteh, Chair, Smyth etc. All those worrying that the ones that have gone out will leave us short.... We've had injuries for the last two months. How many appearances NOT in the cup have these young players made? There have only been the odd sub appearance between them. Its better they play proper football for the rest of the season rather than train with us and sit on the bench. Didn't do Eze any harm did it!!

Yep god help whatever team we'll be putting out next season lol

[qprjeff1882]

Yep god help whatever team we'll be putting out next season lol

At least the kids will have more experience. Thats the main thing.

[Pinkie]

At least the kids will have more experience. Thats the main thing.

Yeah great experience at rubbish clubs in lower league, personally would of put them in much better stead in this league and our first team as subs etc, does make a joke of how we used them same time a year ago from now til the end of the season and did ok, yet a year alter there better off going out on loan lol

[qprjeff1882]

So how does a young player gain more experience sitting on the bench and maybe getting a 10 minute sub appearance every now and then rather than playing almost every game in the league below. You obviously don't know what you're talking about.

[Pinkie]

Why do teams have subs on benches, you wait for youre chances and try to take them when yoj get them, loans are good for youngster who are either struggling or have no playing experience, smth chair even oteh are hardly any of those and would of got chances with injuries or players losing form simple, thats what happens when you make the subs bench in football

[qprjeff1882]

But they will get more game time elsewhere which will benefit them better in the long term. If they are to be playing more next season due to our constraints then it's better they play much more minutes elsewhere this season than the odd 5 or 10 minutes for us. It'll be a better learning curve than only being a bit part for us now.

[Pinkie]

But they will get more game time elsewhere which will benefit them better in the long term. If they are to be playing more next season due to our constraints then it's better they play much more minutes elsewhere this season than the odd 5 or 10 minutes for us. It'll be a better learning curve than only being a bit part for us now.

God help us if we start next season with non of them having any games under there belt in this league this season, anybody would think we're on fire atm and non of the first team are droppable lol, fact is we are creating hardly anything and at some point need fresh younger hungrier players as we're looking tired and lacking ideas, supermacs took away those players so itll be interesting to see how we go from here, just hope he starts using other ideas and change things up. Also think its poor for bonding and moral macs loaned these out whilst we're still in the cup and a couple of them were involved but suppose they couldnt be loaned out after.