Robert and Aaron

[EddyBee]

On my now infrequent drop-ins to the DS thread and note that the mood still seems somewhat poor and the usual suspects are moaning.

On another note they have mentioned some gossip from an unknown saying ED are planning a big cull of cast, now in my view they have a lot of cast who are poorly utilised, now this may be strategic e.g. they need the likes of Pearl and Rodney to gap fill occasionally and I can understand that approach. They do need to inject some new life and I would see that quite few characters are not adding value.

I would think in the safe zone should be Robron, Vanity, Coira, Chaddy as the big hitters with Faith, Pollard, The Dingles & Sugdens also OK.

We know Ross is going and I cannot see what they can do with PD ... David/Tracy/Rhona/Pete/Daz are all possible leavers as well.

Who knows, it could be a false rumour but I do see that ED need to have a shake up and the new people may see the need as well.

I never take seriously these anonymous sources. Occasionally they are genuine but 90% of the time they are just attention seeking and time wasting types.

As a rule, I don't like cast culls. I like characters to come and go gradually by means of good story telling. Also, I feel that Emmerdale has already lost quite a few characters these last 2 or so years, including some major characters like Adam Barton, Ashley Thomas, Emma Barton, Finn Barton, Gerry, James Barton, Andy Sugden, Val Pollard, Chrissie and Lawrence White. I'm sure there are more and we know that Lachlan has just gone and Ross is about to go. As far as I am concerned that is enough.