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Howe – definite upgrade on Boyce.
Ogle – definite upgrade on any other right back on the books.
Brennan – presumably a Roberts replacement but is 100% a left winger.
Richards – no idea of what he’s like vs Westbrooke, can’t really remember him from our games vs Boston.
Hurst – probably the Roberts replacement as he can play right wing, definite downgrade but then who wouldn’t be!
Butterfield – we’ve been crying out for a goal threat and bit of creativity from midfield so he gets a thumbs up from me if he returns…we know what he can deliver. Only needs 3 goals to output more than Ewing did!2 users thanked author for this post.
Haven’t really seen anything from him yet but surely you can’t play 100 games in League 2 and be crap in the NL?
Hopefully we just haven’t seen the best of him and he proves us all wrong with a full pre-season under his belt and a permanent home.
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What a performance by Cape Verde vs Spain yesterday…get their keeper signed up!
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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.
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Playing Beestin in his preferred advanced midfield position will be a good start, he always pops up with important goals and isn’t afraid to shoot.
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It comes across as an unnecessary excuse to put the prices up. I say unnecessary because prices NEEDED to go up. In addition to all of the increases to operational costs that Westyorksiron mentions above, we also had the cheapest tickets out of any team who finished in the top 7 last season. If we’re serious about returning to the EFL then we need a bigger budget to remain competitive.
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