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That Santos that they all rave about is absolute dog 💩 

Bolton have been desperately poor. Don’t know why they insist on playing it out from the back when none of the defence are capable and the midfield isn’t looking for the ball. Santos hasn’t made a forward pass. Not clear how they finished third based on this, no quality on show today. This will be the end of Evatt.
Not one Bolton player I’d want. Brannigan and the centre half look decent, and I like a forward like Murphy with pace and movement.

Any Bolton players you want lads 😂😂

Yep Warne said that in his post season round up interview. Him and his staff went to Holland and then onto Denmark to watch players.

I’m sad. He didn’t concede at the South Stand end after January 1st, and who could forget THAT save v Bolton, to maintain that record. 

Only one of the departures who I’m really disappointed about. He’s been a cracking keeper and shame another club will benefit. Oh well. It happens. 

I think Joe wanted #1 status and perhaps that's not PW's plan. I think he is moving into the prime years for a keeper and clearly wants guaranteed football and as a man with a young family, that's understandable. That said, I'm very sad to see Joe leave as he's been generally excellent for us over the last 2 years.
I suppose all we can do is say, 'cheers Joe, thanks for the memories' and wish the lad well for the future.

Does he? 

Good luck to all those that have left, being 26 I was 9 when we went up at West Brom, I remember Wembley but this year is the first I’ve been able to enjoy the promotion feeling, everyone of them have given something this season to help promotion happen, some good sides missed out again this year but we did it! 

Not Warne's biggest fan but I'm very encouraged by this released list. 
Will see who comes in now.
He clearly recognises we need an upgrade, hopefully he can deliver it.
 

Didn’t really know where to post but Paul Warne and Curtis Davies make up 2 of the 3 guests for the L1 playoff final if anyone wants to watch the pre match.

No major disappointment in that list, Wildsmith obviously values himself higher than we can afford for a goalkeeper unless we bring in a better one whilst if Smith had stayed I would have only expected him to be a sub. Gayle is one I would have liked to have taken for a year if he wanted to stay because he knows where to be to put the ball in the net. Hopefully Sibley wants to stay with us whilst Collins might not want to be Sub most weeks so I expect he might get a longer term deal elsewhere as first choice. We will see if Warne tries to move on Fornah and Washington who have had next to no impact in league one and we will be in the championship.
A big thanks to the players leaving who all contributed to promotion out of that dreadful league, whilst I hope we see better players replacing them.

Just passing on what I was told. As a 36 year old married bloke, can safely say becoming an ITK warrior strangely doesn’t appeal to me 😂 Does Clowes have a well documented 4 year Championship plan? (Y) Do we crave to develop players with re-sale value? (Y) Is Jack Thompson incredibly highly rated, having been linked with top 6 Premier League sides during the last 12 months? (Y) Maybe you shouldn’t be so instantly dismissive. May be crossed wires from the source, but then again maybe not 🙃

The wages of the players we've let go combined are probably well over 40k a week, Lots of wiggle room especially with more revenue coming in

The 17 year old ?! Yeah righto

All seems about right. Smith is 33 and we need to build for the future with more legs and not block the pathway of the academy. 
Wildsmith probably came down to money but there’s a few decent keepers kicking round on frees to pick up. 
Gonna need 4 midfielders and 2/3 strikers just to replace the outgoings so an interesting summer ahead

But we know we need to be better in midfield , heck most on here vilified CH and early part of the season smith.
think both have their best days behind them, thank them both for what they did for us and we move on to hungrier younger and fitter at what is now a higher level 

I've heard Wildsmith is still in talks, rejected a few offers by us and has some good teams after him

Transparent about it too, to his credit. Said in an interview that he told the players before the last game that it would be the last time a lot of them played together.
Pro footballers have to roll with the punches as there's little room for sentiment in the modern game. That said, if all those cited as leaving do actually go, there'll be a good few I miss.

Good - no room for sentimentality!
We've got to do what we need to do to stay in this league and then some!

I've heard rumours but I must say, Warne has been ruthless

Not really ITK, but I do know goalkeeping stuff, told Iverson is likely and that Vickers is off.
How true, I do not know, but I would trust my source 90%
On a personal scouting level that sounds good, maybe Jack Thompson will be 2nd choice, although that is my guess nothing true.

Also been told that Vickers is leaving