You say that but who did we actually sign last summer?
Ewing – plucked from Leicester’s youth team with his only real experience being in NLN with Buxton.
Howe – signed from 2 divisions below us.
Dawson – a crock with barely any first team football to his name.
Horton and Belehouan – nobody had heard of them and they weren’t exactly setting the world alight at Gateshead.
Rose – a great signing in hindsight but barely managed 5 games all season.
Chadwick, Eze and Watson – the less said about them the better!
None of these signings particularly got the juices flowing, the best bit of business we did was retaining Roberts for the season. He’s the one who’s going to be nigh on impossible to replace unless we manage to pull a real rabbit out of the hat with our budget. Everyone else we’ve lost so far this summer should be easily replaceable…and that includes Ewing who was chasing shadows for half of the season.
