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He was terrible for us on loan too. Bizarrely, can't win anything in the air and better (ie less bad) with his feet.

Nobody pays huge fees at this level though - blowing other clubs away is always about the wages. Unless it's paying £300K to take Ollie Palmer from League One down to the National League within a year of saying you wouldn't be doing that sort of thing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56034395 "our first objective is promotion but we're not going to spend £5m next year, dig out every journeyman from a higher league and say we'll blow everyone away"

So banning loans would force those clubs to be more choosy and develop what they have while clubs at our level would stand more chance of players joining long-term if they know they stand zero chance of playing at all once they're in the stockpile elsewhere. It can't go on the way it is with...

How many surplus left-backs does one club need? We've already got one of their's on loan. I'm beginning to think all loans should be banned when even middling Championship clubs can stockpile like this.

The whole of the EFL is stretching it, but Aaron Ramsdale always credits Bayes as a crucial part of his development and he's helped produced a string of youth keepers who have been sold to Prem/Champ clubs in the last 10 years. Very highly regarded in the game and I'm amazed he's still with us.

How about getting Josh Davison from us? Had a decent-ish scoring record on loan with you and has now matured into a very good striker who wins everything in the air, has pace to burn and is a clinical finisher. We'd all be distraught if he moved on.

Bennett did the same for us in his 18 months or so, but I'm not convinced players like him need to be captain to lead on and off the pitch. It's just what they do. The captain's main role has always seemed to me to win the toss. Dick Wood? Got a hard tackle I'd have thought.

Myles Hippolyte to us from Stockport on a two year deal.

I think Russell King is also a serious contender for that crown?

We always "swoop" for players. Like a majestic soaring eagle claiming its prize or something. Or more usually a crow arriving late to the party and picking at the scant leftovers.

Spike Brits joined us as an under-9 and stayed for 10 years before City grabbed him last year. Big sell-on or appearance clause money coming to us at some point hopefully.

He isn't really an out-and out winger. You'll just as likely find him lurking around the 6-yard box to pick up scraps, which he does very well, as linking up out wide with the full-backs. The length of deal is probably what clinched it as he did his ACL and was out for 9 months at Pompey. They...

Well I'm very surprised. He's much better than this division on his day. He certainly got passion and got a bit of a reputation at Pompey of being an arse, though we didn't see that apart from taking his shirt off and getting booked every time he scored. Very good signing if he stays fit.

Not sure whether he's technically still our player as he signed "to the end of the season" so he might be a free agent by now. We've definitely offered him a new deal but pretty sure he'll get better offers than us (and, no disrespect, Vale) and will likely end up in League One.

#notallclubs We had to dig very deep as individuals to get the stadium over the line but for football operations there's no owner to fund us. And yet we still have some fans who would rather sell up and enter the same unsustainable dance with financial death that's going to kill a lot of clubs...

Wouldn't give up just yet. Our side looking very makeshift with key players out.

Transfer now confirmed. That's the figure doing the rounds plus the deal "includes future incentives which could see the transfer become a record amount at League Two level".

I was amazed how comfortable we were for the first half hour and would have gone in ahead with a finisher in the side. But apart from Davison's customary missed chance to put us ahead the 2nd half was a different story. Once you went a goal up some of that play on the left hand side with McClean...

Yeah, agree with this. Just couldn't force his way in the side despite looking decent when he had the chance. Quite creative at times. Could have been called back to make sure he gets games rather than us releasing him because I was very happy with him as cover from the little we saw.