If you are serious about getting out of this league, as Methven has alluded to, then there is a certain calibre of player that you have to fill your squad with to give yourselves the very best possible chance.
This squad is nowhere near that level.
Add the fact that we are still looking for a manager and I think its pretty safe to say,we won't be pulling up any trees this season.
Hard to tell at the moment. Definitely some decent players brought in with the likes of Camara and May but a little too much inexperience brought in at the end. They may turn out to be good players.
Disappointed not to move some players on but at the same time we haven't sold off any of our better talent like CBT and Leaburn. If we had all players fully fit I'd say it's a decent squad but we never seem to have that luxury.
Personally, at least we have brought players in and the squad looks better. On the other side of the coin, I don't know enough about these players to know how good they will be so it is a bit of a wait and see job. Letting CBT go at this point woud have been a major mistake so pleased that hasn't happened.
We seem to have built a squad of mainly young inexperienced players and are lacking leadership on the pitch. We are also without a manager. Can't see us finishing above 10th tbh. So a very average window compared to what we were promised
6 out of 10. I see that most rate it at 5, I've gone higher because we've moved on DJ, Payne, lavelle, etc. the problem is, have we replaced them with better
JFC Stockley O’Connell Rak Sakhi Woollacott MacGillvray Harness Egbo Sessignon Clare Inniss Lavelle Mitchell Morgan Gilbey Henry Jaiyesimi Payne Kilkenny Kane Bonne Penney Barker
And we’ve gained
Istead Jones Hector Abankwah T Watson Asimwe Edun L Watson T Taylor Camara Anderson Campbell May Tedic
So are we better off now? It’s a bit more streamlined and there are clear unknowns against the ones we’ve not seen. Of what we’ve seen so far, May and Camara are an improvement on what we had previously (borderline with Edun / Sess), though already a question mark on Camara ability to stay fit. Hopefully a number of the others will push on and be a positive improvement
JFC Stockley O’Connell Rak Sakhi Woollacott MacGillvray Harness Egbo Sessignon Clare Inniss Lavelle Mitchell Morgan Gilbey Henry Jaiyesimi Payne Kilkenny Kane Bonne Penney Barker
And we’ve gained
Istead Jones Hector Abankwah T Watson Asimwe Edun L Watson T Taylor Camara Anderson Campbell May Tedic
So are we better off now? It’s a bit more streamlined and there are clear unknowns against the ones we’ve not seen. Of what we’ve seen so far, May and Camara are an improvement on what we had previously (borderline with Edun / Sess), though already a question mark on Camara ability to stay fit. Hopefully a number of the others will push on and be a positive improvement
9 on the list that have gone started less than 5 league games last season, 2 have gone on loan and will be back, hopefully ready for first team football.
definitely stream lines and the dead wood has been moved on. The question now is have they been replaced with dead wood
No idea about how well these players will integrate into the team and whether it’ll be the catalyst for moving up the league and more convincing and commanding performances, let’s hope so.
I wish them all the success because we desperately need it.
The best transfer window I can remember was Powells 101 point season. The core of the team brought in early for a decent pre season & fitness, quality in their respective positions & a well balanced team.
Compare this window to that one. Last minute additions of some young & inexperienced players. It will take a while to integrate into the squad & whatever new way of playing.
It appears that many of the players are may not be fit or that experienced. 10 to 15 games in will prove whether the initial post window enthusiasm is proved.
I think not being considered into the question under consideration is the fact it usually takes 1-2 more windows after a transfer to integrate with the new team, absorb the culture, and gauge the success or failure of a transfer. On paper, many transfers look solid, but some of the players will under-perform, some will be injured and some will over-perform. The new owners had very little time to prepare for this window. And I can't rule out yet (time will tell) that the owner's quick trigger on sacking the manager might be a sign they have ambition and will not hesitate to drop poor performers. I just think it is simply too early to tell. I predicted 9-13th this year and I think we wind up there eventually. It may take 2 years to really see how this turns out and oddly, I am a bit more optimistic that pessimistic. I think we would be far worse off right now (as a going concern) if we still had TS as owner. In the end one can only grade an outcome against alternatives realistically available. Which in our case was TS.
Ask me at the end of the season... 2011/12 was the best one ever
Jensen, Johansson and eventually Kish turned us into a mid table premier league team . Always my favourite . Just considering whether that was actually a window , but it was a summer
Hard to tell on this one. I do think that we have improved, and we have started to clear out the dead-wood. It is all a process of getting better and I think it is a good step in that way.
Hard to tell on this one. I do think that we have improved, and we have started to clear out the dead-wood. It is all a process of getting better and I think it is a good step in that way.
I don’t think you can have a process these days ; not in league one , when you have no money . We don’t go up this season, which is more or less certain , and we lose our best players plus (including ) all the loanees, and we end up having to rebuild again .
Hard to tell on this one. I do think that we have improved, and we have started to clear out the dead-wood. It is all a process of getting better and I think it is a good step in that way.
I don’t think you can have a process these days ; not in league one , when you have no money . We don’t go up this season, which is more or less certain , and we lose our best players plus (including ) all the loanees, and we end up having to rebuild again .
"More or less certain"? Have you seen the table? We're 6 points off the play off places and 7 off the top. And that's with the shocking start we've had.
Of course we might not get promoted, but there's such a long way to go it would be absolutely mental to write us off right now. God, I hope those at the club haven't run the white flags up already.
Hard to tell on this one. I do think that we have improved, and we have started to clear out the dead-wood. It is all a process of getting better and I think it is a good step in that way.
I don’t think you can have a process these days ; not in league one , when you have no money . We don’t go up this season, which is more or less certain , and we lose our best players plus (including ) all the loanees, and we end up having to rebuild again .
"More or less certain"? Have you seen the table? We're 6 points off the play off places and 7 off the top. And that's with the shocking start we've had.
Of course we might not get promoted, but there's such a long way to go it would be absolutely mental to write us off right now. God, I hope those at the club haven't run the white flags up already.
I love the optimism ; I hope you are correct. I believe we are way short of a promotion squad . The one thing I don’t believe my assertion is is “absolutely mental” - it’s based on results, us having no manager and no strategy to recruit one and most of our signings being unfit or inexperienced (or both). If you call me a pessimistic b***ard, fair enough .
I think not being considered into the question under consideration is the fact it usually takes 1-2 more windows after a transfer to integrate with the new team, absorb the culture, and gauge the success or failure of a transfer. On paper, many transfers look solid, but some of the players will under-perform, some will be injured and some will over-perform. The new owners had very little time to prepare for this window. And I can't rule out yet (time will tell) that the owner's quick trigger on sacking the manager might be a sign they have ambition and will not hesitate to drop poor performers. I just think it is simply too early to tell. I predicted 9-13th this year and I think we wind up there eventually. It may take 2 years to really see how this turns out and oddly, I am a bit more optimistic that pessimistic. I think we would be far worse off right now (as a going concern) if we still had TS as owner. In the end one can only grade an outcome against alternatives realistically available. Which in our case was TS.
But most of them were loans? They'll be heading back to their parent clubs when their time is up. Hardly a way to build a solid future
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Not the best.
Would say 5/10, if you compared our squad now to our squad in September 2022. It hasn't improved enough.
Disappointed not to move some players on but at the same time we haven't sold off any of our better talent like CBT and Leaburn. If we had all players fully fit I'd say it's a decent squad but we never seem to have that luxury.
We are also without a manager.
Can't see us finishing above 10th tbh.
So a very average window compared to what we were promised
JFC
Stockley
O’Connell
Rak Sakhi
Woollacott
MacGillvray
Harness
Egbo
Sessignon
Clare
Inniss
Lavelle
Mitchell
Morgan
Gilbey
Henry
Jaiyesimi
Payne
Kilkenny
Kane
Bonne
Penney
Barker
And we’ve gained
Istead
Jones
Hector
Abankwah
T Watson
Asimwe
Edun
L Watson
T Taylor
Camara
Anderson
Campbell
May
Tedic
So are we better off now? It’s a bit more streamlined and there are clear unknowns against the ones we’ve not seen. Of what we’ve seen so far, May and Camara are an improvement on what we had previously (borderline with Edun / Sess), though already a question mark on Camara ability to stay fit. Hopefully a number of the others will push on and be a positive improvement
definitely stream lines and the dead wood has been moved on. The question now is have they been replaced with dead wood
By this stage of the season, you really want new signings to be the icing on the cake, with the core of the squad already bedded in.
No idea about how well these players will integrate into the team and whether it’ll be the catalyst for moving up the league and more convincing and commanding performances, let’s hope so.
I wish them all the success because we desperately need it.
Of course we might not get promoted, but there's such a long way to go it would be absolutely mental to write us off right now. God, I hope those at the club haven't run the white flags up already.
They'll be heading back to their parent clubs when their time is up.
Hardly a way to build a solid future