Lets leave the Waking Dead on the other thread and talk about



who we would keep for our SL2 squad (does anybody know if we have to keep anyone as if so thats the starting point and no doubt there are plenty out there that can tell us how much they are on so we know what cap is left for other players)



who we would get in?



Who would be the coach?

If we get relegated the players I'd love to see stay would be Kear, Addy, Donno, Blythe, O'Brien and Gaskell. Don't think many of them will be on a huge wage and would love to see Donno as the club captain in the future.

From our current squad:



BK - Gone

Elliot Kear - Try and keep, but I think he'll leave

Purtell - Gone

Blythe - Try and keep

Foster - Gone

Gale - Gone

Diskin - Retired

Olbison - Try and keep

Ferguson - Gone

Walker - Try and keep

Nas - Try and keep (our one and only o/seas spot)

Sidlow - Try and keep

Addy - Try and keep

Gaskell - Try and keep

Donno - Try and Keep

Adam o Brien - Try and keep

Luke George - Try and keep

Adam Henry - Gone

Sam Wood - Try and keep

Oliver Roberts - Try and keep

Alex Mellor - Try and keep

Nathan Conroy - Try and keep

Jamal Fakir - Gone

Sam Bates - Try and keep

Adam Brook - Try and keep

Jay Pitts - Try and keep (his deal with Hull is up and Fev are after him!)

Arundel - Gone unless Hull grant him a release

Baldwinson - Gone

Tonks - Gone

I think the post above has got it more or less right.



When you look at what's left its a decent squad for Championship level. Granted it probably needs the addition of a seasoned half back and one or two players for the backs, but the nucleus of a competitive squad is certainly there.

The team that Nothus lists as 'keepers' would IMHO get absolutely flogged by the Leigh team that played Leeds.

John Kear as coach if FC walks away.

If he doesn't walk he'll need to be pushed if things bumble along the next 12 games as the First 14!!

If /when we go down, we must use the opportunity to clear the dead wood out.

Starting with cummins, gale, ferguson, Kearney, Henry and foster.

Then we rebuild with the younger guys.

Ferguson is hardly dead wood, he is injured and he and we have been unlucky in that. If he regains match fitness then I don't think there's any danger of him not playing SL somewhere next season.



Because of the apparent attitude of the team in many of the games we have played, and a number of other things that have accumulated, Cummins' stock has sharply fallen with me. Anyway, he has the ideal opportunity, even though we are now as good as relegated, to show that he is able to coach and motivate a consistent team. If we do put in a string of very respectable performances between now and the death then I think he would be a better proposition next year - wherever we are playing - and would probably be seen by many as one of the most prominent and leading coaches in the Championship. And he still has a large surplus of brownie points with me for the way he ahs conducted himself through our troubles. I just wonder whether he is the leader of men we so badly need.



I think Kearney would go down a storm in the Championship but don't see him wanting to play there. Gale would probably stay as where would he go, but I think he would do a lot better and hopefully be a lot less inconsistent at a lower level.



Not sure what Foster has done wrong. He could do a job.

Well we have got Bates and Brook signed, so that's two. Or do you think their contracts will be null and void now?

And it won't make a lot of difference to Ferguson which league he is injured in will it?