I wouldnt mind if Rooney came back TBH.

Wakey can do better Wildy. Not trolling here as I'm sure you realise.
There will be better available. Much better.

Haven't you got a decent lad in your 21's??

Possibly but without the experience of Rooney (or his goal kicking)
I wouldnt mind him back, I suppose you could say I'm indifferent about it.

Don't mind either way TBH.

cool!

Ok, I'm coming late to the thread but I have two questions:

1) Why is Kear leaving in any way relevant to Rooney coming back?
Rooney didn't slag off Kear and in fact said good things in his autobiography, and if Kear did go, wouldn't the decision rest with the new coach rather than Rooney or us on here, so not sure why it is seen as settled that he would be back.
2) We are surely looking for younger talent now. Vievers, Griffin and Moore are all good goalkickers so wouldn't need cover there assuming at least one of them stays and Rooney's skill revolved a lot around his speed, and he is bound to be losing that now. Good as he was for us I don't think that is what we need next year, regardless of which league we play in.

I'd hope that Matty Wildie and Gareth Moore would be the starting half backs

I agree, lets hope we can hang on to them both.

I would have thought you'd be able to do that!

Possibly but we all know that if we get the chop the vultures will be circling.

aye, - like wakey did when Rooney was with Fev!!!

Seriously, you will lose the best players, but you'll also lose those salaries.
It will take a while to adjust to the championship and a new structure of how your club is formed.

If you develop quality, entertaining players that can rip up the championship, inevitably they will want to try their hand at the highest level. and fair do's.
If a club tries to prevent this, you have a disgruntled player who doesn't give his all and it sends a message to other kids who may have considered a move to wakey that your club stands in the way of them progressing.

Both Zak and briggsy both went to SL. But cos they were particularly 'stand-outs' in that league and on long deals, we got good wonga for em.

Any good players in the championship will always attract attention from SL clubs.

I agree - hope we can hang on to them both.

I know what you mean if we had acted a couple of weeks earlier we could have got Semi for half the price