Best I could find on every player, Furns! P.S. wasn't a fan of the colour-coding. Also it is insanely hard to tell who is and isn't apart of that youth/apprentice contract so I dropped that out. Rumoured players may or may not be legit, but my best bet.
Current Newcastle Jets Squad
#1) Mark Birighitti (gk) - 14/15
#2) Scott Neville - 15/16
#3) Taylor Regan - 15/16
#4) Kew Jaliens (fgn) - 14/15
#5) Ben Kantarovski - 15/16
#6) Zenon Caravella - 14/15
#7) Andrew Hoole - 15/16
#8) Ruben Zadkovich - 14/15
#9) Emile Heskey (fgn)(int marquee) - 13/14
#11) Craig Goodwin - 15/16
#12) Connor Chapman - 14/15
#13) Joey Gibbs - 13/14
#14) Josh Mitchell - 13/14
#15) Josh Brillante - 14/15
#16) Jacob Pepper - 15/16
#17) James Virgili - 14/15
#18) James Brown - 13/14
#19) Michael Bridges (fgn) - 13/14
#20) Ben Kennedy (gk) - 14/15
#21) Sam Gallaway - 14/15
#22) Adam Taggart - 14/15
#23) David Carney - 13/14
#24) Mitchell Oxborrow - 14/15
#25) Mitch Cooper - 14/15
#27) Nick Ward (inj replacement) - 13/14
#29) Joel Griffiths - 13/14
#30) John Solari (gk) - 14/15
Players Released
Nathan Burns - loan deal expired
Players Rumoured In
Archie Thompson - Melbourne Victory
Gui Finkler - Melbourne Victory
Marcos Flores - Central Coast Mariners
Nathan Burns - Incheon United
Players Rumoured Out
Mark Birighitti - Bayer Leverkusen
Josh Brillante - Bundesliga
Adam Taggart - Bundesliga
Emile Heskey - England/Retirement
Michael Bridges - Retirement/Coaching
Manager
Clayton Zane - 13/14
Last edited by pv4; 01-04-2014 at 03:47 PM.
OK
right from that list am happy to give another year to Mitchell, Carney, Griff
Rest can gtfo
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Taggz is already signed for next season.
I would probably be signing him to a longer better deal, so that we can maximise any transfer fee that may eventuate.
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The other 2 blokes I agree with particularly that Griffo bloke.
As for Mitchell. We really need to be signing better quality than him.
Yes we could re sign him but we have too many players already on the books of his ilk ie Average who will eventually **** up
The signing of Kew Jaliens shows someone has a clue so there is room to believe we could sign a very good player to partner Kew.
Its high time we actually assembled a squad capable of making the top 6 in a 10 team comp. Mitchell to me is the signing of a club who wishes to try and make the 6 not the signing of a club who expects to make the 6
Particularly the last 3-4 games, I think Mitchell has been absolutely excellent. He's a local, he plays for the shirt, he gets stuck in, he wins headers, he makes the challenges he needs to (even if some are a bit rough) and he is keeping possession way more than last season (and I still blame GVE and his sytem for that, and not Mitchell). I don't see what else people want. He perfectly compliments Kew, and they are forming quite a formidable partnership. And he's keeping Regan & Chapman out of a job, he's doing so well!
I quite like every player in our squad who is coming off contract (bar Bridges, for well-documented reasons). I'd love to see them all re-signed (particularly Mitchell & Griff), assuming we don't have the drawing power plus audacity and ability to attract better players (and, assuming we're typical jerks, this will be the case).
OK
I'm sure we will do as that's our style - rather than signing good quality skilled players, sign players who are demonstrably poorly skilled, have a long term trend of being crap, but are currently performing somewhat better than said long term trend.
Aiming to sneak into the top 6 in the last round by goal difference FTW!
Gibbs- Release
Brown- Release
Bridges- Release
Ward- Release
Griffiths- Re-sign
Carney- Re-sign
Heskey- Re-sign (only if he will take a massive pay cut and come under the cap)
Mitchell-???
Birighitti- Sell
Taggart- Sell
Brillante- Sell
Burns- Sign
Kennedy- Sign (Josh)
Holland- Sign
Same bloke dogged it for Harolds goal at the weekend/
Have a look at the replay and explain to me what he was doing???
As for him keeping possession Have a look at where he keeps possession. Most of his passes are back to the keeper and the bloke many a time has the first instinct to go back rather than play forward at all
I never said he wasn't at fault for things nor didn't make mistakes. Every player does. That's usually how goals are scored. I still think he's incredibly solid, and very suited to our club.
I have honestly barely seen him play a backpass this season. I think your views are from GVE days still - which I have said many times should not be used to assess him as that system proper set up the centre backs to look bad. Show me evidence of him "mostly" passing back to the keeper this season (and moreso these last 3-4 games) and I'll probably be more open to your opinion - until then I will be of the belief you're holding a grudge from last season still.
OK
Very suited to our clubs continued desire to seek and achieve mediocrity.
Watch him on the weekend instead of Bridgesand see how often he needlessly passes back to BK when he could pass forward. Ball comes back to him and he will choose the easy option and play it back and negates the option to keep possession and look forward for a suitable pass
Mitchell deserves another contract. He's been one of our best since GVE was boned.
Obviously not a popular opinion (that Mitchell is good enough for us/the league), but myself, pv4 and Dunster will just make our own little Mitchell Appreciation Society lol