We had to sign 2 players by Friday, otherwise i would genuinely been concerned, about what on earth was going on.
The question now is , will there be any more incoming / outgoing through the window?
How many other clubs have signed 2 by now in the window? January should be a patch up job anyway. Real business in the summer
Is that an echo I hear from January last year.
Yes but it's only because we keep screwing up the summer windows.
January is never meant to be the time to overhaul your squad - it's expensive, not to mention disruptive and can do more harm than good if you have a complete clear out. Two or three more would be excellent but we shouldn't expect more than that.
Thank god for that when he played especially vs Stockport and against Lincoln it seemed like he didn’t want to play and was awful. Also can’t kick a ball!
We had to sign 2 players by Friday, otherwise i would genuinely been concerned, about what on earth was going on.
The question now is , will there be any more incoming / outgoing through the window?
How many other clubs have signed 2 by now in the window? January should be a patch up job anyway. Real business in the summer
Is that an echo I hear from January last year.
Yes but it's only because we keep screwing up the summer windows.
January is never meant to be the time to overhaul your squad - it's expensive, not to mention disruptive and can do more harm than good if you have a complete clear out. Two or three more would be excellent but we shouldn't expect more than that.
Right, and against that metric, this has been a successful January so far. We moved on fringe players and we've brought in stop gap replacements. As far as stop gaps, we could (and have) done a lot worse than Bonne and particularly Kane.
The big need remains LB. If we can add a CB or CM better than what we have, and a quality attacker, that would be great. But expecting a major overhaul is just not realistic.
I would expect one, maybe two more in, and probably DJ going out. Maybe Stockley, if we can find a taker. And then loan moves for some of the younger fringe players: Deji, Mitchell, Campbell, Kanu, and maybe Henry. Dylan Gavin seems to score a lot for the U23s, so a loan is probably in order there as well. All would probably benefit from going to the National League, meaning all could be recalled if we had an injury crisis.
Oh no! Not Bonne please.. Everyone will go on about the goals he scored.. He should have had 25 goals, the amount of great chances he had. Still believe if he had put away a couple of those we would have stayed up, and might be a different story now!
But lets get realistic - unless we are paying to wages, this is the pond we are fishing in!
Bonne was good before Christmas in the championship. He fizzled out just like everyone else that season .
Wouldn't say he was good, scored a few miss hits, and a decent strike against Derby. Wouldn't say he was good.. More the fact he had some good players around him, putting them on a plate for him
Scored 1 goal from 30 after that initial streak for them.
Was that 30 starts, or 30 appearances off the bench? If the former, that’s very poor. I suspect it’ll be mainly sub appearances. Hope so anyway! I’d mainly use him off the bench to prevent Leaburn burn out.
Re Stockley: He does seem to have been affected by the back injury, but I don’t think he was ever really all that great in the first place. In his first season for us a fair proportion of the goals he scored were almost freakish headers. Didn’t matter the angle, or how tightly he was marked; if the ball hit his head it seemed to fly in to the top corner. I was pretty sure he wouldn’t be able to keep scoring goals like that, and so it proved I think. There were also quite a few tap-ins in cup matches that boosted his stats. Funnily enough though, he’s looked a bit sharper when he’s come on as sub in recent matches.
You mean the move we invented with no evidence to back that invention up.
Kentonline and SLP both reported it as a possibility
Seriously Kip, I think Stockley's wage would have been a problem plus I don't think Stockley would take the drop into the fourth tier as a good move, even though new finance has landed at the Gills door. I think it was wishful thinking from a lot of parties but I'm always happy to be proved wrong, stunned if it happened, but wrong all the same.
Forest are hoping to get rid of Taylor and 83% of Forest fans want him gone....that worked out well then! They are hoping to sell him! Why he cost fuck all didn't he?
I have to say so far with the ins and outs, clearing out a bit of the dead wood and signing players in positions we are desperate for, this is already shaping up to be a much better than any previous under TS
Forest are hoping to get rid of Taylor and 83% of Forest fans want him gone....that worked out well then! They are hoping to sell him! Why he cost fuck all didn't he?
Forest got promoted with him in the squad, Taylor probably got at least a top championship wage for the last eighteen months. I think both parties would say it's worked out quite nicely whereas as we would declare it did nothing for us at all.
We had to sign 2 players by Friday, otherwise i would genuinely been concerned, about what on earth was going on.
The question now is , will there be any more incoming / outgoing through the window?
How many other clubs have signed 2 by now in the window? January should be a patch up job anyway. Real business in the summer
Is that an echo I hear from January last year.
Yes but it's only because we keep screwing up the summer windows.
January is never meant to be the time to overhaul your squad - it's expensive, not to mention disruptive and can do more harm than good if you have a complete clear out. Two or three more would be excellent but we shouldn't expect more than that.
I remember Andy Cole moving to Man U in Jan. That didnt turn out too bad did it.
You mean the move we invented with no evidence to back that invention up.
Kentonline and SLP both reported it as a possibility
Seriously Kip, I think Stockley's wage would have been a problem plus I don't think Stockley would take the drop into the fourth tier as a good move, even though new finance has landed at the Gills door. I think it was wishful thinking from a lot of parties but I'm always happy to be proved wrong, stunned if it happened, but wrong all the same.
I can only see it being on loan if it does happen mate.
We had to sign 2 players by Friday, otherwise i would genuinely been concerned, about what on earth was going on.
The question now is , will there be any more incoming / outgoing through the window?
How many other clubs have signed 2 by now in the window? January should be a patch up job anyway. Real business in the summer
Is that an echo I hear from January last year.
Yes but it's only because we keep screwing up the summer windows.
January is never meant to be the time to overhaul your squad - it's expensive, not to mention disruptive and can do more harm than good if you have a complete clear out. Two or three more would be excellent but we shouldn't expect more than that.
I remember Andy Cole moving to Man U in Jan. That didnt turn out too bad did it.
That was in 1995. I was 8, about to turn 9. I turn 37 next month.
Good signings happen in January, but it's almost impossible to overhaul a squad in January, particularly at our level.
We had to sign 2 players by Friday, otherwise i would genuinely been concerned, about what on earth was going on.
The question now is , will there be any more incoming / outgoing through the window?
How many other clubs have signed 2 by now in the window? January should be a patch up job anyway. Real business in the summer
Is that an echo I hear from January last year.
Yes but it's only because we keep screwing up the summer windows.
January is never meant to be the time to overhaul your squad - it's expensive, not to mention disruptive and can do more harm than good if you have a complete clear out. Two or three more would be excellent but we shouldn't expect more than that.
I remember Andy Cole moving to Man U in Jan. That didnt turn out too bad did it.
That was in 1995. I was 8, about to turn 9. I turn 37 next month.
Good signings happen in January, but it's almost impossible to overhaul a squad in January, particularly at our level.
BWP was a January deal wasn't he? You're right though it's hard to overhaul in January.
Forest are hoping to get rid of Taylor and 83% of Forest fans want him gone....that worked out well then! They are hoping to sell him! Why he cost fuck all didn't he?
Forest got promoted with him in the squad, Taylor probably got at least a top championship wage for the last eighteen months. I think both parties would say it's worked out quite nicely whereas as we would declare it did nothing for us at all.
Forest are hoping to get rid of Taylor and 83% of Forest fans want him gone....that worked out well then! They are hoping to sell him! Why he cost fuck all didn't he?
So we should want a fee for Leaburn or Dobson then?
We had to sign 2 players by Friday, otherwise i would genuinely been concerned, about what on earth was going on.
The question now is , will there be any more incoming / outgoing through the window?
How many other clubs have signed 2 by now in the window? January should be a patch up job anyway. Real business in the summer
Is that an echo I hear from January last year.
Yes but it's only because we keep screwing up the summer windows.
January is never meant to be the time to overhaul your squad - it's expensive, not to mention disruptive and can do more harm than good if you have a complete clear out. Two or three more would be excellent but we shouldn't expect more than that.
I remember Andy Cole moving to Man U in Jan. That didnt turn out too bad did it.
We had to sign 2 players by Friday, otherwise i would genuinely been concerned, about what on earth was going on.
The question now is , will there be any more incoming / outgoing through the window?
How many other clubs have signed 2 by now in the window? January should be a patch up job anyway. Real business in the summer
Is that an echo I hear from January last year.
Yes but it's only because we keep screwing up the summer windows.
January is never meant to be the time to overhaul your squad - it's expensive, not to mention disruptive and can do more harm than good if you have a complete clear out. Two or three more would be excellent but we shouldn't expect more than that.
I remember Andy Cole moving to Man U in Jan. That didnt turn out too bad did it.
Forest are hoping to get rid of Taylor and 83% of Forest fans want him gone....that worked out well then! They are hoping to sell him! Why he cost fuck all didn't he?
So we should want a fee for Leaburn or Dobson then?
The point I was trying to make, he went there on a free, after he walked out on us,. Yes he picked up a good wage, but, and at this point I have to say my wife's family are massive Forest fans and regularly attend, he didn't set them on fire, didn't start regularly and this season hasn't played as not selected in their 25 man squad. They want him off their books, surely let him go on a free, he's not played for months. Leaburn and Dobson are regular in our team, and of course we should demand a fee, but we better not be selling them in the first place!
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January is never meant to be the time to overhaul your squad - it's expensive, not to mention disruptive and can do more harm than good if you have a complete clear out. Two or three more would be excellent but we shouldn't expect more than that.
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The big need remains LB. If we can add a CB or CM better than what we have, and a quality attacker, that would be great. But expecting a major overhaul is just not realistic.
I would expect one, maybe two more in, and probably DJ going out. Maybe Stockley, if we can find a taker. And then loan moves for some of the younger fringe players: Deji, Mitchell, Campbell, Kanu, and maybe Henry. Dylan Gavin seems to score a lot for the U23s, so a loan is probably in order there as well. All would probably benefit from going to the National League, meaning all could be recalled if we had an injury crisis.
I’d mainly use him off the bench to prevent Leaburn burn out.
They are hoping to sell him! Why he cost fuck all didn't he?
Good signings happen in January, but it's almost impossible to overhaul a squad in January, particularly at our level.
Not good enough for big school.
They want him off their books, surely let him go on a free, he's not played for months.
Leaburn and Dobson are regular in our team, and of course we should demand a fee, but we better not be selling them in the first place!