Retain - Silk, Marshall (most improved player this season), Watt, Foster, Ross, Milnes, Mills, Newsham, SWD
Maybes - one of Stainfield or Ward (Ward if he can get back to the form he showed when he first broke into the team, otherwise Stainfield to provide cover across the back 4), Fairclough (if no-one better available), Lister (if he can prove his fitness)
Needs - keeper, left back, experienced central defender, genuine left sided midfielder, powerful forward
That would give us a squad of 16 or 17, with players like Reed, Sanders, Nuttell perhaps sent out on loan to get some experience. Not sure if we could afford that big a squad?
People love Stainfield because of his whole hearted commitment, and that is what we want all the players to show, but he's still got a way to go to make it at BSN level - gives away far too many pens and FKs in dangerous positions, gets caught out of position etc. But he would be a useful squad player for the sort of back up role that Liam Parker played in our last promotion team. Ward has been even more mistake-prone this year so at the moment I'd choose Stainfield ahead of him.
