Christ don’t even mention those two names together or else you’ll get them all riled up again.
FWIW Mullin will be on incredible money, clearly has no ambition to play higher but can you blame him really? Not quite sure why everyone is so salty over it as he was leaving anyway.
Thats the one. He was pretty anonymous today too although to be fair he was up against virtually Peterborough’s first choice defence in a team full of triallists so it was a tough ask. I can’t say he stood out like the others stated did unfortunately.
In amongst a number of trialists at Barnet today we had these:
Gk - Daniel Gyollai (looks very different, not sure if this is confirmed?)
ST - Sam Darby ex Orient Morecambe and Stockport?
RW - Kaziah Sterling
RB - David Sesay formerly of Crawley
A few other yet to be ID’d. Some looked decent -...
They’ve made several smart signings since they were awful at the start of last season, not surprised at him rocking up there. Must be some money behind them for the names they’re attracting though
Not quite sure that Hyde’s skill set matches up to Murphy’s but then he’s injured most of the time so you’ll rarely have them both on together.
Decent player for this level, will get you goals if he’s fit.
An injury-free (which is the main thing tbh) Akinola is a very good player. Surprised he’s want to be back given how things have gone whilst he was here but I’d always have him back!
We saw less of the thuggish side but he was definitely very vocal and critical of others when on the pitch. When we had Dan Sweeney (now at FGR) who was the same it really gave the impression of quite an unpleasant team spirit.
But then it’s professional sport and they could’ve just been...
He was very good, but only had him on loan whilst the Canadian off-season was taking place. We would never Ben able to sign him permanently unfortunately.
Club is a shitshow and he is a star keeper. He lives up in Nottingham and has been messed around by us + is a big earner. No way he would be staying around with all of that combined.
He was impressive with us and I really think one of the more regretful releases there - which is unusual given the shower of shite on that list (bar Loach)
I mean whilst it’s never that simple, a team with Akinola Murphy and Holmes (is he staying?) should have the firepower to stave off relegation.
However, should, would, could - but possibly
Whilst I do believe he was given the wrong role in MF this season and as such looked even worse, even 2 years ago you could tell he wasn’t up to scratch when we were playing under Currie.
Southend need to do better than Dunne.