To be honest with one or two notable exceptions, you could let every player over 23 in this squad go and just start again for me.

Ditto. The real shortlist would be which players you'd do everything in your power to keep. The sad answer is not many if anyone half decent was available to replace them.

Which of the older players would anyone be desperate to keep, assuming we had an 'average joe' SL player (or up and comer) able to replace them?

In the backs I'd only put Hurrell and Watkins in that category (assuming Watkins can get back to his former self). In the forwards...Ava, Merrin maybe, Ward if he was ever fit? Its a shockingly short list - I could make a case for letting any of them go if the choice was between them and say a quality 7.

Parcell is contracted for next year so unless he agrees to go by finding another club or unless the club pays his contract off which would come under the cap restrictions hes not going anywhere.

He's going Marty. But I get your point, hence why I said October. Have a feeling it will be sooner though.

Hurrell, Watkins (with the caveat that he may end up in the second row, which worries me), Ava, Ward, maybe Merrin. Peteru as a squad player depending on his salary. That is a pretty depressing short list given that two of them are under significant injury clouds, another is error prone and another is a bit of an expensive luxury IMO.

Walker, Newman and Oledszki should be in that list. Put them in a team with senior players who were doing their job and I think people would rightly be excited by their prospects, smith to a lesser degree.

Agree with this.Turn of this decade when we still had most of the senior group in their pomp they would be seen as future stars and be standing out much more in a more often than not dominant team.

That doesn't mean they won't reach full potential in the current climate; infact they are getting far more game time than they would ever likely have got back then and if we can sort ourselves out sometime soon the experiences gained now could be invaluable.

Anyone advocating getting rid of those three have lost the plot.

I don't think anyone is...?

They were missing off the lists of must keep players?

Noticed you’d put those over 23

Yep sorry missed 'of the older players but'

Carry on