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bluemike wrote:Jay Tabb, Luke Varney & Cameron Stewart (if anyone wants him) have all been told they are not being offered deals, no great surprise although I am in Two minds over Varney, he is no goalscorer but every time he has come on he has done very well, super in the air, and some good assists to his name. I suppose we need to strive to bring in better though.

Kevin Foley may well be offered something, talks still ongoing.

number 9 wrote:Has anyone heard if Pringle and Feeney are staying?

hallamblue wrote:Tourè released today. Thats another space in the squad.

marko69 wrote:In my opinion, the Fab Four won't get the club promoted. Every chance of play offs with midfield adjustments, but ITFC need a Jordan Rhodes type. Maybe a Naki Wells from Udders? I don't know......., clutching! Murphy won't repeat the 14/15 season.

phily bon bon wrote:

marko69 wrote:In my opinion, the Fab Four won't get the club promoted. Every chance of play offs with midfield adjustments, but ITFC need a Jordan Rhodes type. Maybe a Naki Wells from Udders? I don't know......., clutching! Murphy won't repeat the 14/15 season.

Have to say I agree with Marko here on this one. We would have to improve the midfielders and wingers and keep the four mentioned to have half a chance for progressing. There are some big sides coming down with serious money to buy whom they want.

barmy billy wrote:Fresh faces are most certainky needed, but the change of attitude has to come from the manager.

derick_ipsw wrote:

barmy billy wrote:Fresh faces are most certainky needed, but the change of attitude has to come from the manager.

Not just attitude but style of play.

marko69 wrote:I genuinely mean no harm to anyone, but some people need to go find a high height, and launch themselves from it.

1/ Yes, the club hit a bad spell......., everyone saw it, no one is disputing it.

2/ McCarthys hands tied in many ways, (not all) and the club finish 7th. Above the likes of QPR & Fulham.

If Mick McCarthy is seriously as bad as many of the fans on this forum think, then things can only get better? No?

7th? Pretty decent IMO.

marko69 wrote:I genuinely mean no harm to anyone, but some people need to go find a high height, and launch themselves from it.

1/ Yes, the club hit a bad spell......., everyone saw it, no one is disputing it.

2/ McCarthys hands tied in many ways, (not all) and the club finish 7th. Above the likes of QPR & Fulham.

If Mick McCarthy is seriously as bad as many of the fans on this forum think, then things can only get better? No?

7th? Pretty decent IMO.

Town boss Mick McCarthy says he will be looking to add goals to his midfield during the close season with widemen again amongst his targets.

The Blues, whose midfield McCarthy admits haven't scored regularly enough, have lost a number of players who operate out wide this summer, while previous recruits such as Alex Henshall, Dylan Connolly and Cameron Stewart, who remains a Town player but is available for transfer, have failed to make an impact.

“It’s important to get our recruitment right this summer, but that’s no different from any other year really,” the Blues boss told the club website.
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“The wide areas are an issue for us. We have lost Tabby [Jay Tabb]. Ainsley [Maitland-Niles] has gone back to Arsenal and obviously Ryan [Fraser] is back with Bournemouth so we need to look at that.

“Goals from midfield have been a problem for us over the last two or three years but we looked to have got on top of that with Ryan, who certainly contributed in that area. He was a real loss for us.

“Kevin Bru got a couple of goals, Dougie [Jonathan Douglas] is a goalscoring midfielder operating in the right system, we need to get Bish [Teddy Bishop] back fit and contributing in attacking areas as well. We certainly need more in terms of goals from our midfield.”

Regarding 25-year-old Stewart, who has a year left on the contract he signed in the summer of 2014, having so far made just two Town sub appearances in the FA Cup during the 2014/15 campaign and spent most of the season just gone on loan at Doncaster, he added: “He’ll be looking to get a club.

“He’ll be back for pre-season, he was here [recently] and got weighed, his body fat was measured and got his programme for the summer. He’s in good shape at the minute, he’s not been playing, but he’ll come back.

“I’m always disappointed if it doesn’t work out, whatever it might be, because that’s a reflection on me because I signed him and it’s a reflection on him because he’s the player and he has to perform.”

hallamblue wrote:Quality costs money.

Well, Marcus , whatcha gonna do????

herforder wrote:MM setting out the need for more quality/goals from midfield - confirming what 20,000-odd fans know so well - is the easy bit! Identifying players to bring in, at the right price, will be the real challenge. Or, trying to find the odd loanee of Ryan Frazer's standard - not easy. But really hope whatever the route taken, we genuinely improve the quality level, a key component of which must be be pace.

Typical honesty over getting Cameron Stewart's abilities wrong. Still don't really understand exactly why it didn't work out; poor in training, poor attitude, lack of work ethic?? Or just not a MM player.