alphabet_king
Vital 1st Team Regular
Got my season ticket for next year sorted the other day and it got me thinking as to what standard of football we are going to be expecting next year...will we be challenging for the playoffs again, or will we struggle a little more (as our 2nd half of the season form suggested we might). Clearly we will lose Dack, and we've lost Egan (has he agreed a deal with anybody yet?), and we've let a few go as well (Loft the most important in terms of quality and wages as well). I do think we need to sign some quality this summer to maintain our momentum at the top half of the table and replace these two quality players.
I know it's early days yet and of course JED will no doubt be holding his cards close to his chest at this point, but I have to say I am completely under whelmed by the players we're being linked to. That's not to say they might not have the potential and I won't give them my full support, but they are not exactly the kind of signings that will get fans excited.
I saw that JED had not ruled signing Marquis out and we'd also been linked with the left back from Cheltenham.
Marquis did well for us, although since then he has not been great. I think he's had another purple patch on one of his loan in League 2, and in general looks to be around League 2/low league 1 level maybe. Certainly not top of league 1 level, which is whast i'd hope we're aiming for.
Regarding the guy from Cheltenham... from what I saw, I don't think Cheltenham fans are too worried he's moving on. They rate him as good, but not really as highly as i'd expect considering he's been playing in the vanarama conference. I'd be expecting to pick the stars of non-league teams rather than their good-average performers if we are wanting to get promotion to the championship. We need to be signing good league 1 players, championship quality players who are taking a step down, or young players from non league or prem/championship teams who are highly rated, have potential and are simply using us as a stepping stone.
I don't know the truth of any of the reports of either of these two, but failing any other news it's all a little underwhelming - i'm not usually one to be negative / bed-wet either. It's just as well the Euros is on as I can take my mind off it.
Hopefully JED will pull a few cracking signings / loans out of the bag that will get us all excited about the upcoming season.
I know it's early days yet and of course JED will no doubt be holding his cards close to his chest at this point, but I have to say I am completely under whelmed by the players we're being linked to. That's not to say they might not have the potential and I won't give them my full support, but they are not exactly the kind of signings that will get fans excited.
I saw that JED had not ruled signing Marquis out and we'd also been linked with the left back from Cheltenham.
Marquis did well for us, although since then he has not been great. I think he's had another purple patch on one of his loan in League 2, and in general looks to be around League 2/low league 1 level maybe. Certainly not top of league 1 level, which is whast i'd hope we're aiming for.
Regarding the guy from Cheltenham... from what I saw, I don't think Cheltenham fans are too worried he's moving on. They rate him as good, but not really as highly as i'd expect considering he's been playing in the vanarama conference. I'd be expecting to pick the stars of non-league teams rather than their good-average performers if we are wanting to get promotion to the championship. We need to be signing good league 1 players, championship quality players who are taking a step down, or young players from non league or prem/championship teams who are highly rated, have potential and are simply using us as a stepping stone.
I don't know the truth of any of the reports of either of these two, but failing any other news it's all a little underwhelming - i'm not usually one to be negative / bed-wet either. It's just as well the Euros is on as I can take my mind off it.
Hopefully JED will pull a few cracking signings / loans out of the bag that will get us all excited about the upcoming season.