Views from the Sieve

Yes, we've signed 3-4 players, but I am slightly concerned with the lack of quality we have in midfield and how slow we are at recruiting this summer. Bradbury has now had over two weeks, and the lack of signings to date worries me. We need a leader in the middle of the park and someone with an engine. Lets hope we get some good news soon on this.

Agree we need someone in midfield, a box to box player similar to Appiah-Forson but not easy to find.
Having been relegated with now a reduced income and a big question mark about our current owners, not sure what sort of budget the new manager has been given.
I assume pre season training starts next week so hoping we see some new additions in the next couple of days.

Think we’ve signed some players but media guy is on holiday so no announcements until he returns. Cant the MD work a computer, guess someone from the Jurassic period of thinking would find that difficult.

We're definitely pretty short as it stands but imagine he'll struggle to recruit unless he can find takers for the likes of Harrack and N'Guessan.

Assuming Hill and Rutherford follow Phipps out the door then we need a right back or right wing back depending what shape we're going to play. And we need two new central midfield players. Then further cover at CB, out wide and up front.

Diggerthedog wrote: Fri Jun 20, 2025 11:10 am Think we’ve signed some players but media guy is on holiday so no announcements until he returns. Cant the MD work a computer, guess someone from the Jurassic period of thinking would find that difficult.

The website posted the sad news of one of our life long supporters this week, so someone is creating and posting news.

Waiting for the interviews to be done, either way we’re miles behind other sides.

Diggerthedog wrote: Fri Jun 20, 2025 3:04 pm Waiting for the interviews to be done, either way we’re miles behind either way.

Are the interviews that relevant?
For me just info on comings n goings is all I need.

Not to us no but it’s all about momentum clicks I guess. Think the ownership announcement is more important, it’s extremely hush hush.

Diggerthedog wrote: Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:13 am Not to us no but it’s all about momentum clicks I guess. Think the ownership announcement is more important, it’s extremely hush hush.

In their period of ownership Club Underdog have often seemed remote and lacking imparting information down to the supporters, from Xmas onwards when things were spiralling out of control it seemed even more critical as we were left in the dark.
I suppose until the deal is legally finalised it cannot be revealed in its entirety at but regular updates on the progress or otherwise would certainly be welcomed.

I’m not sure there was much to communicate to supporters after Christmas, we all knew the manager was f#king useless… we all knew Dan Hall didn’t have a bloody clue and we could all see the tactics on the pitch was leading us into relegation!
Although we did have the Egyptian sideshow to distract from what was happening in the pitch.

Lawless has signed a one year deal with us.

what holes do we still have? i am thinking quantity and not even quality?

At the moment by my estimation we have fifteen players contracted for this season. There is also speculation that Rutherford could be on his way and possibly one of two others that the new manager would like to offload.
As is usual at this time of the season, there is probably a lot going on behind the scenes that we do not know about.
Would hope that things become a lot clearer in next week or two exactly where we stand in playing squad.

Big holes all over the pitch, need at least another 7/8 players before the season starts in pretty much every position, lots for the new manager to do. Preseason starts tomorrow, will be more staff than players lol.

With the number of trialists normally around at this time of the season as well, there probably be loads in for pre-season training.
It becomes interesting once the friendlies begin trying to identify who these players are.