Third signing. Jesse Debrah. You guessed it, another short term contract. Another centre back. Looked impressive in his one trial game and seems to be well thought of.
Another signing. Tyrell Warren on another short term deal. Looked really poor in pre-season and got released by Boston. Not convinced on this one at all. Only reason I can think we've signed him is he can cover both centre back and right back which we were lacking depth in.
Full back Javid Swaby-Neavin signs for us on a short term deal. Looked fairly decent in pre-season and little risk if it doesn’t work out. Happy with this one.
Good read that. Clearly done your research, fair play! Don't think you will be a million miles away with your predictions. Think you've summed us up pretty much spot on too for what it's worth.
Genuinely no idea what to expect from us. We’ve only played 3 friendlies and still lacking players in key positions. Sounds like we’ve 4 signings due to be announced over the next few days. Can see us either scrapping a win or getting hammered.
The latest from us is Wild is hopeful of at least 4 new signings in time for the Maidenhead game. They are practically done but just having a few paperwork issues. 3 of them we know are young trialists. There was a mention of a fifth signing last week but that's gone quiet. Guessing it's not...
Ditto. Our friendly with Sheffield United tommorow has been called off. No reason given so far so presuming it’s something there end.
We’ve only played 3 friendlies too where we had pretty much a team of trialists. Strongest team yet to play together and no one even done 90 minutes yet.
You’ve described his time at Halifax to a tee. Such a frustrating player as you can clearly see the ability is there but doesn’t have the attitude to match it on a consistent basis.
Waters been solid so far. Looked lively in the friendlies against Farsley and Guiseley. Our friendly last Saturday against Fylde was called off due to 1 covid case in our squad. We’ve got friendlies on Friday and Tuesday to finish our pre-season off.
Wild wanted a light pre season this time...
Yes, that’s completely it. But my argument would be we aren’t competing for the same players as the likes of yourselves, and the other 4 big boys. You’d think there’d be some decent players knocking about in our budget range. The players we are set to announce come across as cheap panic...
Cracking signing that. One of the best strikers in the league without a doubt. Chesterfield have to make top 3 minimum with that squad otherwise it’s a massive failure for me.
In the same breath, it just sums up our financial situation. Chesterfield sign Tshimanga whilst we are set to announce...
4 new signings to be announced this week according to Wild in our local paper. All 4 have been on trial with us and he basically confirms they are all youngsters as we can’t afford anyone else in the current market…
My guess is they will be:
Jamie Cooke
Javid Swaby-Neavin
Jesse Debrah/Tyrell...
Yes, surprised we weren’t in for him. It’s no secret we need a centre back and Wild will know him from his Oldham days.
The two reasons I think we may have passed on him is we already have a left footed centre back in Bradbury.
Secondly, I’d say we are in need of a tall, dominant centre back...
Charlie Cooper. Good luck with that one. Was awful for us. Normally there’s very split opinions on our forum about players but no one was bothered in the slightest when he left. We’ve replaced him with much better players.
Hard to say for us at the moment with still a couple of key players to probably come in. I’ll say roughly as it stands:
Johnson
New RB Maher Bradbury Senior
Summerfield Green
Allen Warburton Gilmour
Waters
Subs:
Backup GK
Benn
Woods
Spence
Slew
We’ve 16 currently but Stenson is out injured till Christmas. We are after 4/5 signings. I think we will sign at least 3 of the trialists based on Wilds comments which leaves us with 1/2 signings after that