Lakin was Sutton’s best player - but not good enough to get into our team - that’s all we need to know - would hope are are aiming a bit bette than him - but maybe we can’t afford it

Lakin is a quality player and should have been a starter next to Reeves.

Lakin played well at Sutton by all accounts and was popular - the fact they got relegated doesn't really reflect on him that much.

DO, yeah he was on loan from Burton. Wonder if he’s out of contract. Sutton stats, 8 goals and 5 assists not too shabby.

Lakin,scored 8 goals for sutton ,that form for us would of been playoff place.we didn't really give him a chance, no way he would want to come back

DO players under 21 don't count towards the squad max numbers so we can sign more.

BW75 - wasn't Lakin on loan at Sutton? Not sure that benefitted Lakin or Burton much!

I'd rather Rudoni stays at Huddersfield and has a stellar season in League One. I doubt Huddersfield would get much selling him to another Champoionship team.

If Little moves on Lakin would be a great replacement.

For those keeping tabs on Jack Rudoni, I asked the Yorkshire Evening Post reporter who covers Huddersfield a lot if he has been one of their better players and if another Championship club might look at him? [Link]

I get the impression that these days, we've been planning for the likelyhood of Bass/Little/Johnson departing as far back as February.

TSO - surely that will signal the return of Will - battle-hardened from life in the SPL - to retake is place in our back 4.

CW - and Ipswich have a midweek match at Coventry before then, too!

The Ipswich money could be crucial to keeping Curtis if he doesn’t get a better offer, they basically need a point to get above Leeds then they have home to Huddersfield next weekend who are effectively down already

High likelihood that Johnson is going back up north (obviously for a fee). When Currie goes that leaves our back line with just Lewis as first choice.

Does seem unlikely Curtis will stay but got to be worth taking a risk from our perspective. Offer him half decent wages (by his standards - mega money by ours probably) on a one year contract (presuming he'd be unlikely to sign for longer) and hope to either get a great season out of him for our cash or a solid first half and a fee in January.

DO. Wouldn't worry too much. Last season we had 19 under contract, tokk the option on Ogs and offered contracts to Chislett and Pierre. And still what shopping big time. Lots will change over the summer.

Unless the Mandela effect is kicking in, I'm sure there was a keeper who we were going to sign, but who joined us for a short while anyway. Anyone remember who he was?

It would be lovely if we signed a decent keeper of our own instead a loanee

Biggles. The most certain decision was that we would retain Currie. By not taking the option he could walk for compensation peanuts. Now we either get transfer money (highly likely) or another season (would be great but not very likely)

If all 5 (inc. Curtis) sign up,that gives us 21 strong squad (exc. 1st yr pros). Assuming a 24 player squad, that only leaves room for a striker and 2 x GKs. If Davo decides he needs a fresh start, JC snapped up or all 5 don't sign up, would clear space for more signings.

The four players offered will be pretty much on a take it or leave basis. Curtis will be entirely negotiation and any realistic chance dependent on Ipswich being promoted. In recent years, those we've offered contracts end of season tend to only re-sign if fringe players. Hopefully Little and Brown buck that tren and accept.

Released/retained list looks good. I hope we are exploring options to get Bass on a permanent deal. I don’t expect Curtis to sign. Davison moving on would probably be the right move as square peg/round hole scenario at present. We need a winning quartet of forwards. Pretty happy with Kelly. Bugiel is class. Just need to supplement with a couple of others. Currie will almost definitely move on for a few, but hopefully club have decent replacements lined up.

Donkey Davo stays, Nightingale still has 5 years left and if we can't get a big price for Currie, we've another budget black hole. Other than that, very good. As you were.

REPD, Little missing the last couple of games might not be a coincidence. Although I heard from someone at sponsors evening that he was insinuating he would be signing soon.