Re: Barrow at home. : Thu Feb 20, 2025 12:30 pm  

No Hurrell in Saints' squad for their visit to Cas, so more than likely he'll be with Fax. But you wouldn't think so. Absolutely nothing from the club, real tumbleweed stuff. A great opportunity to advertise Hurrell to add some bums on seats but most likely nobody will know about him except the few who bother reading social media. What a waste!

Re: Barrow at home. : Thu Feb 20, 2025 1:44 pm  

Mmm advertising a DR player to get bums on seats, especially one who Wellens and Saints are using us just to get his fitness up. Whatever next.

Maybe a bum staying at home, what a waster.

Re: Barrow at home. : Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:34 pm  

Hearing hurrell won't be available for us Sunday due to him having to deliver leaflets around elland and Greetland.

Re: Barrow at home. : Thu Feb 20, 2025 2:39 pm  

When the squad is announced it will be at the usual time in the usual way.

Re: Barrow at home. : Fri Feb 21, 2025 3:09 pm  

18 named in this weeks squad and only Hurrell on dr. Whatever your views on dr i would of thought if we are going to use it now would be the time to get a few bodies in from saints with them having close to fully fit squad.

Re: Barrow at home. : Fri Feb 21, 2025 3:23 pm  

I don't agree..Eastmond is doing a fantastic job with the players he has and they should get the shirts first.DR should only be used when gaps in the squad arise as per Hurrell...

Re: Barrow at home. : Fri Feb 21, 2025 3:37 pm  

Miserybusiness wrote:

I don't agree..Eastmond is doing a fantastic job with the players he has and they should get the shirts first.DR should only be used when gaps in the squad arise as per Hurrell...

Agreed Eastmond is doing fantastic and with our own players getting the shirt first.

With the squad we have there may be some benefit in seeing who could become available eg from Saints on at least short term loans instead of DR so they get used to how he wants to play and he gets a closer look at them but whatever he does I trust him to know what’s best in who to choose and the timing of doing so.

Re: Barrow at home. : Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:22 pm  

Can see it both ways, it don't look great that we can't name a 21 man squad on a regular basis but if those 18 are fit then it seems pointless bringing players in just so we can fill out the squad with no intention of playing them. And given how we have played there is no reason to bring anyone in to the 17 at this stage.

Re: Barrow at home. : Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:42 pm  

I am not pushing for us to use dr quite the opposite i just remember last year with a slightly bigger squad after the transfer deadline if a player as not played at least 5 games on dr then he can not be used on dr. With the size of our squad and being under special measures Kyle needs to keep this in mind.

Re: Barrow at home. : Fri Feb 21, 2025 6:17 pm  

Yes,good point..the complexities of all these rules can cause huge problems later..what special measures are we under ? If it was explained last night I missed it..we haven’t signed a player for months are we not allowed to ?