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Ward gone for undisclosed fee now confirmed. Best of luck to him, he really came on leaps and bounds as last season went on after a shaky start.

Ok so I had a spare 10 secs there to ask some virtual person about player registrations for Conf. League Qualifying Rounds: For each qualifying round (July & August 2026), the initial squad list deadline is usually several days to a week before the first leg. However, clubs are allowed an emergency late registration of up to two new eligible players until 23:59 CET on the night before a first-leg match

He's on a beach, lighting cigars with hundos.

Is Just back with the squad or still on a break?

Maybe we tweak our style a wee bit and keep Ox as our main keeper?

Hate to say but price is right then a player will be off!I fully expect Watt,Just,Longelo,TJ to be sold in this window sort of expecting it tbh.

Again , we are a selling club. Everyone says it and every other team knows it. It's been said a million times every player is for sale if the price is right. Our right price is a small price for English teams to take a chance with. What do folk expect after an outstanding season. If we block any moves that has a knock on effect with new signings comming in to get a move up later on. It's were we are at least we are making decent money out of it. Feel a bit sorry for manager tho having rug pulled from under him after he signed up.

Ward's key asset was his ability to read a situation and finding the right pass to either get out of trouble or start an attacking phase. If he was a midfielder doing that, I suspect there would be more concern about him leaving than for "just a keeper", as if there are more goalies that are good at passing than outfield players.

MJC on the other hand is a glass bone dry kinda guy 🤣

Lets hope so and if Jens was still here id be more comfortable with the statement. Just, Watt and Maswanhise will command the most money and the question remains............can we turn the sums down

I’ve seen this movie too many times before to know not to expect anything other than disappointment. We have a great season, qualify for Europe, lose several players and by the time the games come around we just aren’t ready on or off the park. Either that or we just humiliate ourselves. I am getting increasingly bad vibes about the upcoming season with us more or less having to build an entire team under a manger just in the door. It was always highly unlikely that we would get anywhere near last seasons levels but unless we get the recruitment spot on over the next month or so then we could be detached at the bottom of the league come the end of August.

Agree it feels like that however both jens & the chairman have said previously we wont be selling everyone at once. Could we end up keeping hold of the ones we thought were heading out the door......

Taking nothing for granted but we are good enough to beat Havnar, and in the unlikely event we can't, serious questions would need to be asked of the directors and to a lesser extent Nick Daws. The next round is a slightly different matter.

Not gona lie, im a glass moderately full kinda guy but this is turning into a full rebuild in almost every position given who has gone and going, a couple of weeks before europe starts with a new manager.......................... Less than ideal imo

He has one year to go and we have year's option in addition.

As things stand we are going to be very, very short of options going into the new season, virtually having to rebuild the entire team under a new manager. Hopefully by the time the league season starts we will have got a few more on board but it’s a big ask for the new boss. And I think we can safely write off the ‘Euro adventure’ as the usual anti-climax and exit at the first hurdle. That said I’m not too bothered about that, the real stuff starts on 2nd August at Easter Road.

800k is good business and we should be in a decent position to find a suitable replacement and if we can get ox off the wage bill as well then even better.

According to the Rancid, we have lined up a friendly against Carlisle United.

Seldom easy to replace any player when they leave. Look at our attempts to sign a goalkeeper prior to Ward. Rather we had our strongest team on the pitch to watch, especially against our next very important game. Some incomming signings would be nice.

Obviously unlikely to re-invest all the cash in the team, let alone just on a GK, but we should have a bit more for wages in the GK position as a result of it. We'll obviously have our targets and just need to trust the process. On the face of it almost £1m for GK is decent, particularly when the stats can mask things a bit. A solid GK, but certainly had a clanger or two in him.

I agree, £800 k great business. I fully get the distribution part but I am old fashioned and also like my keepers coming for crosses and saving shots. Certainly done us a turn and very grateful but I feel we can get a replacement in just as good or even better

As much as I liked Ward, £800k for a keeper who isn’t that great a keeper in his final year of contract….. when we got him for nothing…… is a decent bit of business.

On the positive side we are cashing in on all these players so it's a pretty much clean start for Alfred however feel we are leaving ourselves very very short for the European games i hope we have many irons in the fire.

Agreed. While not perfect, won't be easy to replace at all. Made a major contribution for us last season.

I don't think Ward's irreplaceable, but I don't underestimate what a large part he played in our success last season. We can't just wheel in another keeper and expect them to immediately play the passing game at the same level.