Hunt out.

[Snowflake Royal]

Ahmed's started 3 games, it's rather premature to expect him to be sold for big money. Unless you want to do an SCR flounce.

We'd still have most of a decent spine with Pereira, O'Connor, Williams, Fraser, Wing

Were you excited by Abrefa or Ahmed signing new deals a few months ago? And your touting one for a big sale and the other is an early top performer

I’m not necessarily expecting Ahmed to be sold for big money, that was an example

Point is from that list of players we probably need to sell a couple to make ends meet

This season we had Wing, Knibbs, Savage, Abrefa, Elliott under contact coming into the season

Next year the spine might be JP, Wing, O Connor, Fraser, Williams, Kelvin E plus a few solid players who we re-sign during the season

The first group is probably stronger than the second

Point is that I wouldn’t next expect is to be better next year. Players like Savage and Elliott won’t be easily replaceable with the budget we have

And we need to do well this year. A season of struggle this year could make it really difficult to attract quality next

Savage’s contract expires at the end of next season, so he can be added to that list.

Hound is assuming he's sold.

[Extended-Phenotype]

Difficult to say how much weight to give last nights game in terms of monitoring progress; cups can yield result outliers with their different pressures and team selections from both sides, but at the very least win with a changed lineup demonstrates we actually have a bit of strength in depth for once.

The team goal showed we have a team in there somewhere. Fraser looked tidy - would like to see him combine with Wing in what many think would be the more natural positioning of the two (Fraser deep, Wing ahead of him); could see Wing loving that sort of hand-off.

Let’s call it a half step forward, Hunt-wise. Team selection was good, the players seemed a bit more confident, and the football is starting to spark. Will be interesting to see Hunt’s selection for Saturday, especially with Marriott joining us.