Retained List - Updated. Probably. If I Remember.

[YeltzDoc]

**Updated 20/08/23**

Signings:

Josh Hawker - Improbably barnetted warrior returns.
Miracle Okafor - Hopefully nominative determinism from Willenhall.
Ryan Wynter - Headline writer's dream of a stopper. It's not just about a gnome Stu.
Reece Mitchell - Left back from posh Walsall, as if such a thing exists. Either two first names or two surnames depending upon how you look at it.
Caine Elliott - Step 5 tyro dynamo from the old fo(e)
George Cater - Tamworth winger. Which Brother Avery will think is a typo.
Jack Byrne - experienced midfield general with lots of Step 2 carrot-cruncher experience.
"Sir" Owen Woodhouse - Defender from Oldbury via Forest Green. Vegan, no doubt.
Todd Parker - Midfielder from our old friends at Hednesford Lazarus. Looks about 12. But something in his biog makes my Spidersense tingle. Doc’s “One to Watch”. (So bound to be the new Mark Stirk).
Ryan Boothe - Striker who looks young but also might have the stamp of a journeyman lump. Let’s see. Kev probably already hates him.
Luke Redfern - Young Stokie defender.

Last one in and away we go.


Players retained:

Dan Platt
Josh Ezewele
Nathan Hayward
McKauley Manning
Kieren Donnelly
Kieron Morris
Richard Gregory
Jack Holmes
Jac Hickman

Players apparently still “in negotiations with the club” but they haven’t featured so far, so I’ll guess they’ve gone:

Brogan Halpin
Taylor Homer

And where the others have gone:

Simeon Cobourne - Coleshill.
Rob Evans - Coleshill.
Josh Quaynor - Leamington.
Tom Turton - Chasetown.
Jamie Insall - Redditch.
Matthew Funge - Boldmere.
Dexter Dudley-Toole - Gresley.
Asa Charlton - AFC Wulfs.
Brad Birch - Retired.
Dan Whitehouse - Free agent.
Dan Brookes - Free agent.
Max Morris - Tividale.
Richard Smith - Worcester Raiders.
Nat Kelly - Alvechurch.
Oscar Tonge - Halesowen Reserves. Sorry, Coleshill.
Jac Redhead - Finally succumbed.

And I've probably forgot someone.

[YeltzDoc]

I suppose we should murder our darlings too.

Who would you retain?
(If nothing else this will make a tremendous thread in a year’s time when someone we’ve all callously jettisoned scores the winner for us in the FA Trophy final).

I’ll kick off the self-humiliation-fest.

Platty
Eze
Quanor
Evo
Morris
Turton
Hayward
Jack
Mini
Sim

And I’ll claim to have forgotten someone.

[ArgusAda]

KD definitely ! Probably Kelly and Hickman too. Not sure whether retaining Jack will be our choice, have Hereford already released him ?

[YeltzDoc]

KD definitely ! Probably Kelly and Hickman too. Not sure whether retaining Jack will be our choice, have Hereford already released him ?

KD's the one I forgot.

[andy]

Definitely Kelly. 100%

[BartleyYeltz]

No Greggs?

[Westyeltz]

Donnelly for me, too. And Kelly.

[Brightgoldenhaze]

Donnelly's top of my list to keep. Signing of the season by a country mile.

[Seamus]

Somehow I doubt we will retain all three of the current central defenders.

[Dazzie76]

Only about 6 I would retain myself won't name names but sometimes you just have to be ruthless. Centre backs and strikers will be needed to be bought in.