Let's hope his first name doesn't curse him!

Fair points, but I still don't see him as possibly being anything but slower. Time is relentess.

Now there is a career going nowhere at speed.

Aldred increasing speed? No. An absolute impossibility at his age. His all round physical capacity will have declined. The science is rock solid.

Retire Kaz, the Bakries, and Valkanis first.

IMO the season went out the window as soon as Valkanis slotted Aldred back into the team. If that is best the coach can do, then we are screwed. Keeping Valkanis was the first white flag mistake; Aldred was the second. This is a club with zero ambition. I'm seeing a spoon on the horizon and...

Now there are some names from the archive, but the surely some are past use by date.

I suggest that this thread should be retired. There is no threat to the Neanderthal codes. They are culturally entrenched. So how about ditching this thread?