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Cant whinge about player wages and lack of depth, then keep players like Ritchie & dummett on the books as expensive cheerleaders.

 

Either get them in as coaches eith8nt he youth setup, or do what we should have done several years ago and let them go. 

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If it was feasible to replace the likes of Dummett and Ritchies positions within our transfer outlay in the short/mid term then they wouldn’t get extensions. We obviously have other priorities to fill first.

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Yeah, he’s clearly not in the squad to play at this point. With Burn staying as fit as he has and Targett back we shouldn’t see him get minutes.

 

 

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36 minutes ago, Nine said:

Yeah, he’s clearly not in the squad to play at this point. With Burn staying as fit as he has and Targett back we shouldn’t see him get minutes.

 

 

 

 

Burn is basically the player people thought Dummett was for 10 years, just far better. 

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2 hours ago, The College Dropout said:

Dummett

Longstaff

Gillespie

Anderson

 

Thats our 4. In a 25 man European squad we could then register 21 non Newcastle HG players.  
 

We could bring back Forster or Krul so we have 2HG GKs. 

 

Not sure if it will be 100% accurate, but I thought Gillespie was HG too but on my FM save he was classed as HG at Carlisle so I had to leave a space.

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6 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Burn is a better player. Particularly on the ball. But Dummett was much better 1v1.  

 

It's all he had (and even then he wasn't that great at it). Your average Championship/League 1 full-back can defend play in one on one situations but can't do much else. 

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3 hours ago, The College Dropout said:

Dummett

Longstaff

Gillespie

Anderson

 

Thats our 4. In a 25 man European squad we could then register 21 non Newcastle HG players.  
 

We could bring back Forster or Krul so we have 2HG GKs. 

 

Gillespie doesn't count. Wasn't on the books for NUFC at all between 16 and 21.

 

Anderson wouldn't be named until the following season - but obviously you would be able to play him anyway so makes no practical difference.

 

Krul and Forster would be a reasonable move however if Karius was to leave this summer.

 

 

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It's a non issue. Dummett hasn't played this year, if we extend his contract it's for the purposes of having "institutional" men around the squad.

 

I've no doubt that Dummett is already working towards finding a backroom role within the club or even somewhere like Gateshead.

 

He won't play next year unless we have a major crisis.

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There’s loads of reasons why a manager might want to keep an older pro like Dummett around the club for a while longer. No idea why people’s heads fall off when it gets mentioned. Was the same a few months ago when they were talking about Ritchie getting an extension. There’s an almost childlike understanding of how the real world works.

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7 minutes ago, christ said:

There’s loads of reasons why a manager might want to keep an older pro like Dummett around the club for a while longer. No idea why people’s heads fall off when it gets mentioned. Was the same a few months ago when they were talking about Ritchie getting an extension. There’s an almost childlike understanding of how the real world works.

 

We struggled to get shot of the likes of Clark, Gayle, Hendrick, Hayden. Chances are we're paying the majority of a large contribution towards their wages. We got lucky as owt that Forest came along and took Wood and Shelvey from us. We should be winding down these sorts of contracts to free up squad places rather than renewing deadwood when we're still increasing quality. On a nominal wage in the U23 role like some clubs have adopted but not in the first-team squad then great. 

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