Little Room to Manoeuvre?


Horwood
By Mill House
May 8 2013

Anybody else feel sorry for Evan Horwood? His exit must be all the worse to take because he is the only regular first teamer to be given the boot and he most certainly has not lacked effort, commitment or  footballing ability during the last season ... 

It also comes when John Hughes says he want to play attacking football using local talent. Horwood is an attacking local left back aged just 27.

The bigger question is the wage bill. No doubt the club wants to know the future of Steve Howard, reputedly the club's highest paid player and who may come back from Sheff Wed to honour the rest of his contract with Pools. That would be fun.

If the club had wanted to release funds to employ some new players then they would surely have released the likes of James Poole, Andy Monkhouse and booted Sir Ritchie upstairs into a full time coaching role.

Instead, Hughes has very little room for manoeuvre.

Released:

Nathan Buddle 
Evan Horwood 
Paul Johnson 
Nathan Luscombe 
Adam McHugh 
Colin Nish

New Contracts:

Neil Austin 
Lewis Hawkins 
James Poole

Still talking:

Ritchie Humpreys
Andy Monkhouse
Sam Collins

 

Little Room to Manoeuvre?
Posted by: The Box of Kippers (IP Logged)
Date: 08/05/2013 12:23

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Re: Little Room to Manoeuvre?
Posted by: SportNetwork HQ (IP Logged)
Date: 08/05/2013 12:53

Lets be honest a number of players only started to perform too late lasts season.

I think this lot are lucky regardless of whether their contracts have run out or not:

Collins
Sweeney
Walton
Franks
Poole
Monkhouse
Howard

Horwood is not on that list.

Re: Little Room to Manoeuvre?
Posted by: The ASDA (IP Logged)
Date: 08/05/2013 13:57

Perhaps Horwood and Howard were the biggest earners and not having them might allow us to bring in four players.
OK im trying to look on the bright side (Sm100)

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