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I was going to title this feeling positive but I think excited is the better word. We still have players to sign in various positions, we have a coach 'light' on 1st team experience etc etc but we have the prospect of attractive football around a good group of key young players, who still have room to improve themselves (Dieng, Dickie, Dunne, Field, Chair, Willock).
The way we are seemingly going to recruit players generally unknown to me but scouted for positions we need, with the prospect of players getting better with us fills me with hope, and reminds me of my favourite time late 80s / early 90s when we would buy relative unknowns who would become International class with us (I accept that was the Premier League but concept is the same) - when we got Seaman, Parker, Bardsley, Sinton, Ferdinand etc.
Call it nostalgia, or exitement at what's coming, or maybe it's the unknown but that tingle of excitement is there.
The profile of signings makes me think we might stick with a back three instead of Beale's supposed preference of 433. If Albert accepts the offer, that leaves us with a decent-looking first 11 of...
Looking at the bench, though and we're light wide and attacking. Bench from Archer DeWijs (surely going) Masterson Hamalainen Kakay Johansson Dozell Thomas Bonne
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Feeling excited about next season on 11:26 - Jun 20 with 3272 views
Feeling excited about next season on 11:09 - Jun 20 by dannyblue
The profile of signings makes me think we might stick with a back three instead of Beale's supposed preference of 433. If Albert accepts the offer, that leaves us with a decent-looking first 11 of...
Looking at the bench, though and we're light wide and attacking. Bench from Archer DeWijs (surely going) Masterson Hamalainen Kakay Johansson Dozell Thomas Bonne
No Charlie Kelman, Charlie Owens or Shodipo?
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Feeling excited about next season on 11:47 - Jun 20 with 3208 views
Feeling excited about next season on 11:26 - Jun 20 by stantheman10
No Charlie Kelman, Charlie Owens or Shodipo?
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Might make a few bench appearances but I can't see any of them really troubling the first team. Joe Gubbins, Sinclair Sterling, Faisal Bettache too. I'd be delighted to be wrong.
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Feeling excited about next season on 11:50 - Jun 20 with 3184 views
Feeling excited about next season on 11:47 - Jun 20 by dannyblue
Might make a few bench appearances but I can't see any of them really troubling the first team. Joe Gubbins, Sinclair Sterling, Faisal Bettache too. I'd be delighted to be wrong.
I'm hoping for a big year (Off the bench primarily) for Armstrong, and I've not given up with Kelman.
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Feeling excited about next season on 11:54 - Jun 20 with 3163 views
Could go really well and there will be a huge positive vibe but could also go horribly wrong once the games start coming thick and fast and we get dragged into Championship shithousery and rank officiating.
No one knows. Number two's getting the number one role rarely seem to work out though do they?
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Feeling excited about next season on 12:23 - Jun 20 with 3026 views
I never feel excited on a Monday, but I do feel cautiously positive. Only cautiously though to be honest - if both of the new signings so far work out great, but there will be quite a lot asked of Paal I think in terms of getting up and down.
On formation, I thought I read in more than one place that MB favours a back 4, with a DM screening, two 10s, that sort of set-up. It looks to me like he's recruiting with that in mind shirley? Barbet had to be replaced even if we're going 2 CBs, and one of the new ones needed to have pace - which C-S thankfully does, apparently.
So lots of potential, and it could be great, but we'll have to see how that remaining core plays this season after that very flat end to the last one, who we hold on to, and how the new people coming in do. A right back and a forward to be added you'd think, which will be key.
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Feeling excited about next season on 14:35 - Jun 20 with 2759 views
Feeling excited about next season on 11:54 - Jun 20 by eastside_r
With you there mate.
I have also not given up on Dykes or Johansen which a number of posters seem to have done.
I am always excited for the new season.
Yeah, the Johansen thing is slightly hysterical (Can you be slightly hysterical?) given that we know he was injured for half the season. Dykes needs a big season. he's got it in him, we shall see.
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Feeling excited about next season (n/t) on 17:36 - Jun 20 with 2596 views
Feeling excited about next season on 17:30 - Jun 20 by EastR
Moses just parted ways
I'm a bit surprised. Could play either FB side. Can't believe he was on big money. Maybe just because he was Warbs' man. Maybe it was an age and/or injury thing.
I wouldn't want to go into a season with Kakay as our only RB. Adomah hasn't signed yet. I hope they've got somebody lined up.
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Feeling excited about next season on 06:32 - Jun 21 with 2285 views
Feeling excited about next season on 19:07 - Jun 20 by derbyhoop
I'm a bit surprised. Could play either FB side. Can't believe he was on big money. Maybe just because he was Warbs' man. Maybe it was an age and/or injury thing.
I wouldn't want to go into a season with Kakay as our only RB. Adomah hasn't signed yet. I hope they've got somebody lined up.
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Perhaps Shodipo is being tried in this position?
I can't recall any defensive qualities in him, but there wasn't in Adomah either.
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Feeling excited about next season on 12:19 - Jun 21 with 2063 views
We're now in the situation where we have lost 9 senior players from last year and replaced them with 2. FYI - Marshall (Hibs), Westwood, Barnes, Austin, Ball (Ipswich), Wallace, Barbet (Bordeaux), De Wijs (Fortuna Dusseldorf), Odubajo. Admittedly 3 keepers, including emergencies.
It should be a fair bit off the wage bill but we didn't really have enough senior players, once injuries hit, for a 46 game season. Hopefully, there are more (Free transfer?) signings to come. Or Beale has to bring on the youngsters that Warbs didn't rate.
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Feeling excited about next season on 13:20 - Jun 21 with 1962 views
There are a good few spaces in the squad now - FBs and striker/s in particular. We'll see more incoming that's for sure and I thought it interesting that Beale pointed out Premiership loans wouldn't really be available until later in the window, perhaps hinting at one or two Villa young guns he has in mind.
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Feeling excited about next season on 14:18 - Jun 21 with 1887 views
Feeling excited about next season on 12:43 - Jun 21 by derbyhoop
We're now in the situation where we have lost 9 senior players from last year and replaced them with 2. FYI - Marshall (Hibs), Westwood, Barnes, Austin, Ball (Ipswich), Wallace, Barbet (Bordeaux), De Wijs (Fortuna Dusseldorf), Odubajo. Admittedly 3 keepers, including emergencies.
It should be a fair bit off the wage bill but we didn't really have enough senior players, once injuries hit, for a 46 game season. Hopefully, there are more (Free transfer?) signings to come. Or Beale has to bring on the youngsters that Warbs didn't rate.
I suspect pre-season will determine which youngsters / peripheral players Beale thinks could be good enough for the squad. We've lost a fair amount but we're also getting back Shodipo, Kelman, Masterson, Bonne and then have the likes of Armstrong, Bettache, Gubbins, Owens, Walsh, Drewe, Mahoney, Alfa, etc that we'll look at in the next 4 weeks.
If we assume the first 4 will be good enough for bench/depth and maybe add 2-3 out of that group of youngsters, it's not so bad. The issue atm seems to be more a lack of seniority/experience to get the blend right. Dickie, Chair, Field, Dykes I guess are senior members but are also still pretty young, that's a lot to put on Stef and Adomah as proper experience for the dressing room.
Clive also mentioned earlier that we seem to be moving back to being a 'quiet and nice' team, especially with De Wijs going. Austin had his issues but one thing we all agreed that he brought - which we were definitely missing - was that little bit of bite and needle. Some teams will try to bully us and the officials next season and atm you can see it happening.
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Feeling excited about next season on 21:42 - Jun 21 with 1722 views
Very much agree with comments about loss of players with single minded mental determination. Currently we are down on this and it's hard to see where the guts will come from in certain areas when a sheff u, Boro or Preston are getting stuck into us. And there will be more of those types this year, e.g. Rotherham, Burnley etc. We need a couple of old school players who will be prepared to put it about on a cold night in Yorkshire on a Tuesday evening
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Feeling excited about next season on 00:44 - Jun 22 with 1628 views
Feeling excited about next season on 21:42 - Jun 21 by Logman
Very much agree with comments about loss of players with single minded mental determination. Currently we are down on this and it's hard to see where the guts will come from in certain areas when a sheff u, Boro or Preston are getting stuck into us. And there will be more of those types this year, e.g. Rotherham, Burnley etc. We need a couple of old school players who will be prepared to put it about on a cold night in Yorkshire on a Tuesday evening
I wouldn't want to push Jimmy Dunne around.
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Feeling excited about next season on 01:18 - Jun 22 with 1609 views
Feeling excited about next season on 12:43 - Jun 21 by derbyhoop
We're now in the situation where we have lost 9 senior players from last year and replaced them with 2. FYI - Marshall (Hibs), Westwood, Barnes, Austin, Ball (Ipswich), Wallace, Barbet (Bordeaux), De Wijs (Fortuna Dusseldorf), Odubajo. Admittedly 3 keepers, including emergencies.
It should be a fair bit off the wage bill but we didn't really have enough senior players, once injuries hit, for a 46 game season. Hopefully, there are more (Free transfer?) signings to come. Or Beale has to bring on the youngsters that Warbs didn't rate.
Yes, and seems to happen every summer the last few. There seems to be too many good Championship players being let go each season to me. It hasn't been a disaster yet, but can it continue? Not sure, but live in hope.
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Feeling excited about next season on 12:47 - Jul 1 with 1150 views
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