team next season

[Eastside Urchin]

i reckon we need 3 players at most,i would of said 6/7 after soham game but i think the players we have have come on so much in last few months,and as for enfield,they didn't win the esl as convincingly as we did,not knocking them but we have a much stronger squad,i think the esl players on here will back me up

[CraigDavid]

i agree wuth most, i feel we need to keep the core of the team and make 3-4 additions to strenghten. i think it would be nice to see the team grow together and go on and win more!

[Hornchurch "O"]

I think the current players deserve a chance to impress that they are good enough at a higher level before we start making changes.

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

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Ian_W said:
23 to 25 - so the re-signing of NTRSW and 1ITT could be on the cards <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Thanks Ian, I'll get our agent to get in touch with the management.

I hope they come up with a lucrative package?

For me that would be no money at all and just the privellage of wearing the shirt!!! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

[Michael Hunt]

I'd agree ESU, but to be honest I don't think you should have come into the ESL anyway - reckon you could have more than held your own in the Southern this season and I suppose that shows with the ESL League table !!

[Eastside Urchin]

i am not sure if we was allowed in the southern or ryman,i thought this was where we was put,here or ryman 2,i may be wrong though,unc????

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

Does it even matter now?

 

We have done the job, we are up and out of the ESL!

[Michael Hunt]

I'm pretty sure that was the case, but just think this year's ESL table proves that you should have gone in 1 league higher.

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

You are probably right Huntster but we could only go and play whoever was put in front of us......

 

I don't think that those kind of choices were given to our powers that be?

[Bridge]

There was nothing we could do about it Hunty.....

[Eastside Urchin]

i think with the team we had we may of struggled to start with in a league above but i think with the additions to the squad and the way some of the players have come on we would of held our own in league above in the end,with 2 or 3 more classy players i would expect us to do well next season

[and1inthetree]

plus, if we'd gone in a league higher, we'd have nicked all of their best players, so we could have been having this same conversation on the southern board. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Michael Hunt]

To be honest chaps, I personally thought it was easier playing in the southern league - the standard and fitness is higher (and refereeing), but most of the teams wanted to play football.

I think the ESL is a pretty tough league cos if you can't mix it then it doesn't matter how good your players are the chances are you will drop points.

I Think your lot will do well next season and hope you do !

[Chopper]

agree with you there hunty about playing football and fitness. Saying that there are a few teams in the southern that are just lumps.

[Michael Hunt]

The biggest difference I've found is the refereeing Chopper - I can honestly say that the Refs at ESL level are worse than the ones that used to ref games when I was 8 and playing for the Cubs !

[Chopper]

agree mate there not all great in the southern but there are quite a few good ones but the esl is bad every week!

 

There was a game where the refereeing was that bad in the esl i even said to myself once,if it is going to be like this week in week out i would rather not play as the ref was that bad that day.He just made the game pointless.

[Mitchurchin]

The soham game was a case in point as to the strength in other leagues, but we could and probably should have been up at half time and if that's been the case, we would have probably won.

 

The key thing with any team is a solid core. Our defense is superb, especially now Jordan is back to add a bit of pace. Centre mids like the Cowleys can hold their own above this league and we have four very capable forwards. This is where you build from.

 

I say this lot should be brought forward and given every chance to prove themselves, as the season pans out you make your changes from there.

[The Monk]

Some good points made. Good to see that leagues elswhere at our level were addressed.

 

If we played Soham tomorrow I'd hope that we'd be able to beat them as the team has come miles since we played them last. However, just look where they sit in their league; mid table... You've also got to look at our performance against cocknose. But like I said we played them a long time ago and things have changed...

 

I think this team would do well next year in either the Ryman or SL however we need a few additions if we really want to push for promotion.

[Digger The Cat]

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Uncle Urchin said:

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Digger The Cat said:
Interesting Topic considering we still have one cup final to do "The Treble", as I am sure we would not want to upset the team balance.


some questions that we should consider,
1)who of our team wants to stay?
2)Who does JL want to stay?
3)Any ex urchins who want to come back, who JL wants?
apart from that, does it really matter as long as they show the committment that our squad have shown over the last year?

the league cup final is not an issue diggsy as we are talking about next season....

in answer to your questions I would assume these answers

all of them

all of them

no

agreed...

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Interesting reply, I might wager a small bottle of red on those!

[Uncle Urchin]

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you may be right...lets hope not...