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My County supporting work colleague reckons Croadale would be a good fit for Alty.He also thinks if CCC signs for them he wont get in front of Sarcevic or Nick Powell for a while.

I agree on Croasdale but we'll just have to see what the budget allows - someone of the ilk of Croasdale / Young would be fantastic if we can do it.

Obviously I'm desperate for him to stay, but I do think Stockport would probably be one of the better moves for CCC than most - but he might have to wait for one or both of those two to move aside, as you say.

If we're looking for experience in the middle of the park - and if wage bills on Google are to be believed - then Luke Young is set to be released by Wrexham I think.

Within the realms of affordable (if accurate), 30 years old. He'd be one hell of a signing.

I rate Newby out wide but has not impressed as no.10 when he has gone into that role this season.
Need someone who is capable of bits of magic in that position.
Haven’t seen enough of Crankshaw but he didn’t look that quick, maybe he can play the 10 role….?
Would love Alistair Smith as a CM, he is what we are missing.

The one thing I'll say about when Alex has shifted into 10 is (correct me if I'm wrong) CCC has still tended to be on the pitch? Thus they ended up taking sinilar positions like when we had CCC and Aaron Bennett in the lineup at the same time, with neither particularly shining.

I do like Alex's use of the ball and his decision making is pretty decent compared to the rest of our forwards - he's also shown steady improvement through coaching with Parky and Sorvs.

Wouldn't be surprised to see it happen to be honest - I think 10 is his 'go to' number based on his socials so I'm sure he'd take the number at the very least!

It’s not just a question of whether they are under contract it’s about what the club and player are offered by EFL teams. I would be amazed if lost anyone we want to keep to another national league team after the season we’ve had. Mooney’s experience will teach them the grass isn’t always greener. Lundstram didn’t seem to fair much better at Oldham.

But if a league one team came in for them ……

The difference being that I'd see a player sale as a success of sorts, whereas someone walking away for free will always naturally stick in the throat a bit more.

Hopefully Ethan has had his fill of bench warming. He is a great assett.

Surely we'd have signed Ethan till the end of next year? He only went permanent with us fairly recently.

I suppose one of the first things we're taught in Sunday League is not to let the ball bounce - even more so on a pitch like that. Lewis Baines seems superhuman sometimes, but it was almost as if he took his cape off between 45-60 and that affected everyone else too. But the poor lad can't do it all on his own.

At the top end of the pitch, stating the bleeding obvious but you just need those Newby / Conn-Clarke set pieces to hit the target really. I think deep down we all started to think it might not be our day when we couldn't quite make the most of the backpass freekick.

As others have stated, available players will be knocking on the door to join us now, and IF we accept a bid for any of our players (thankfully I think the vast majority are now under contract) that'll give us the extra 10% to offer on wages which will potentially make a crucial difference if used across 2-3 different starting positions.

I don't begrudge the management team having a rest, but I'm sure they'll be itching to get going.

See you all in pre-season

The bookies had us at 10/1 for the playoffs and now have us at 4/1 for promotion.

On that basis, it's a given 

I think there will be some available at 12:30 as everyone that was able to sort one would have done it by now - this morning won't change things.

A lot of more enterprising non-ST holders will have been sorted amongst that lot too.

Wouldn't wait much beyond 12:30 though!