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Keeper has a blinder. Wilson extracted the urine. Biggest surprise for me though is the form of Pugh at RB, looks natural playing there and played really well today too.

Only downside is Millen won’t be anywhere near ready but all in all, things have gone pretty well. If we get the 2 loans over the line, 1 winger and a striker….we’ll be ok.

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That’s does hint mick at a counter attacking style which results in said team having to soak up pressure and cough up the lions share of possession.

I’d much rather we stayed resolute and actually tried to score. If Cox opts for last seasons bullshit, I expect him to be sacked pretty sharpish.

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Dire need of a good loan striker and winger now to add further competition. I hope Billson picks up.

The comments which we’re made regarding how good he was will result in him improving surely. Put it this way, they better do !

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Awful tonight. Anything other than 4/4/2 doesn’t really work.

We need another striker which is plain to see.

I hope Cox was simply trying a few different things out tonight and won’t continue fielding the same system we played last season.

4/4/2 we look a much, much better side. Always been the same at Scunny, when said manager takes away the width we look terrible.

I hope to god Cox doesn’t revert back to it.

I’m fairly sure one of the loan signings Cox is looking at is a striker, so fingers crossed he’s half decent.

We have target men but no quick striker who plays on the shoulder of the last man, we’re desperately missing that type of player.

Part of this problem we have upfront is down to Swannster, we still have fecking Turan and Jarvis on the books.

GK despite reading good comments looked a bit shaky. I hope he improves.

Cox said we’re after 2 more loans. Get another striker in and another wide player and we’d be much better.

No excuse now though for Cox to field that system into next season. Perry can ping the ball around and has a really good range of passing to knit play together, I like Green, Bunn and Young Wilson looks a fine prospect out wide so we have enough about us to play 4/4/2.

Pretty good at the back as well when everybody is fit. GK position worries me a bit but fingers crossed he picks up.

By the way Davis banged his head and felt a bit groggy so should be fine in a few days time but Millen apparently felt his hamstring after being pushed into a hoarding/fence in the first minute and then went down 5th minute unable to continue so it appears he’s crocked right from the off.

Hardly ideal.

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No offence to Watson but he’s never been good enough anyway. I suspect he’ll be leaving on loan to the conference.

Smudger did say a loan keeper was coming in to replace Watson 2 or 3 weeks ago. I think the other loanee coming in is a striker.

I think there’s enough in the budget to sign Perry. The other loanee is already agreed according to Cox so I suppose we’ll use Watson’s saved wage to sign another wide player, maybe the one we have on trial.

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Smudger did say a little while ago that Watson was going to make way for another GK so going by that don’t be surprised if Watson’s moved on.

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Coventry fans really rate him. One Coventry said that they had a keeper of a similar age play for them in Lee Burge who turned out to be one of the best keepers in their division at the time and according to him Billson is better than him already.

If that’s anything to go by, we’re in the money here. I’ve seen him described as a very vocal, commanding GK who’s a very, very good shot stopper.

Played fantastically well for their u21’s last season and has been in and around their first time for a while now.

Pleased with this signing. No doubt a player with experience would have been more ideal but nobody had really heard of Dean Henderson before he starred for Shrewsbury.

You just never know.

If we can sign Perry or any another ball playing central midfield player, A wide player and possibly another striker on loan, we’ll be in fairly good shape.

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Cox even said trialist B was alex perry. I thought that was him going by his range of passing. Perry stuck out like a sore thumb because we don’t have anybody at the club currently who can pass like that.

Really should be signing him. He’s one player we do need.

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Early indication is that we’ve swept the decks of the trouble makers/time wasters.

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Uncanny !

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Young winger was Cameron Wilson. I like him, he has a hair cut like the Jim Carey out of the film Dumb and Dumber, which makes him a potential iron legend in my eyes. Got to have some inner confidence walking around with a Barnet like that.

I think trialist B I’m pretty sure was that Alex Perry. You can tell he has a good range of passing. I’d sign him if I was Cox. Good age, classy and available on a free.

Only was replaced with Ojo last season because their manager wanted to tighten them up to not play as expansive in order to survive.

No idea who that other trialist was next to him was…Looked pretty good. Only reason why trialist B made the errors he made was because he was trying much more on the ball, to be fair we need somebody like him at the club.

Really good passer of the ball. I thought the winger who came on looked to have much more promise than Hippolyte, not saying a lot I know but he looked to have something about him.

I’d start the 3 trialists from the start and if they come through that and play well again, sign them up. Perry needs probably signing from the off though, 2 good performances now.

The other 2 need more time, give them plenty of minutes Tuesday and see how they get on. Both look to have ability.

The two loanees due in by the looks of it will probably be a loan striker with a GK. I doubt one of the loans would be a CM or a winger due to us having 2 CM’s and a winger at the club on trial.

Maybe Cox was right after all. Cox did say he had to play that way he was last season due to the players not having enough discipline to play any other way.

You can see a marked improvement now. Dare I even say we look quite progressive now.

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All Cox said was that as long as we stick to a strict budget on a break even basis then it won’t really effect us.

Cox also stated after Thompson in an interview that we had space for 5 or 6 perm signings if we wanted them.

I don’t know the finer details but seems ok as long as we stick to the parameters of a break even budget system.

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Guessing it’s Hallam, Millen, Hippolyte, Jarvis and Turan that are the 5 still isolating. None of them in the squad again today.

Spot on. They will be the one’s isolating.

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How are we signing players on two year deals? That’s Millen and O’Neill now. I was under the impression the transfer embargo restricted us to signing free agents on one year deals only?

No it works on a break even basis. Getting rid of all the high wage earners and scrapping the stupid u23 system must have obviously left some money to play with.

I know Cox mentioned he may sign another 6 or 7 players after Thompson came in.

Bunn, O’neil, 2 loanees…still room for another 2 or 3. Maybe a few of the players currently on trial sign. Perry comes with decent pedigree due to the Wigan fans rating him quite highly.

Another striker and a few wide players wouldn’t go amiss. I’ve said all I’ve need to say about Hippolyte. I just don’t rate him at all. I don’t really want us to be relying on him next season.

Bunn, Green, Loan winger and Hippolyte is still a little short in my opinion.

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By what I’ve seen/told. The two loanee’s coming in are a GK and a winger. If we sign a ball playing central midfielder along with those two loans, we won’t be too far off.

Maybe another striker but with Turan and Jarvis still on the books, I find that highly unlikely.

That Alex Perry is supposed to be a ball playing midfielder. That’s what he was described as at Wigan anyway.

If he plays well again against Hull and we sign him, that would be one player we would desperately need.

Hallam you could easily describe as a ball playing midfielder but it’s whether his body holds up and he plays the games needed to have any kind of impact.

Beestin, Kenyon, Hallam and Pugh. No doubt we need another to add to those.

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Don’t mention me in this category. I gave up recommending unknown names because it sink in around 3 seasons ago none of them were ever going to come in, couple that with the fact I started to lose interest in the club and couldn’t even be bothered suggesting players anymore.

If you want to throw an unknown Everton youngsters name into the ring, you do that…do that off you’re own back.

You can be known as “Square ball Bullshitmore”

As I said above, I’ve lost the will to even suggest names anymore. I’d rather just wait and see who comes in !

Square ball bullshitemore and Wonderbowels…we’d make quite the crime fighting duo !

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Bravo. Future in comedy Mick ?

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Will we have made our minds up about Harry Bunn by Saturday evening? Seems to be dragging on a bit.

Cox did say he was waiting for him to come through Tuesday game to then sign him because he did pick up a slight knock.

I hope to got Burton haven’t put an offer to him after Tuesday’s game because with his experience, versatility and ability…he’d be a pretty useful addition to most squads in lg 1 and 2.

Only 28yrs old as well.

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Wonder what would’ve happened to Kell if he didn’t break his leg twice.

I’ve said that before about him. What a player he was. Brilliant range of passing, good energy and stuck his boot in when needed.

To be fair he’s one of the best CM players I’ve seen in an iron shirt. That period when he was fit and on form he looked way above where we were playing.

In my mind if he stayed fit and healthy he could have easily played for a top end championship club.

Kell had a bit of everything. Fantastic player.

As said, it’s a real shame he broke his leg twice and then moved to Barnsley. Kell went on loan to Scarborough on loan from Barnsley if I remember rightly and was subsequently sent home citing unprofessional behaviour.

I suspect he knew it was over for him in football then anyway.

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I quite like Loft personally. Quite cumbersome at times but with good service I think he’ll be good for around 12-15goals a season.

To be fair how he scored the goals he did last season in that side is a minor miracle. Plenty of improvement in him I think.

Fair few people said Bunn was the best player on the pitch for 50/60 minutes. We need to sign him sharpish on a 2yr deal if we’re able to.

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According to smudger the GK to come in will be on loan. Already agree but still away with his club, whoever he is. There is another loan player who’s agreed to come in as well.

The 4 loan players, Bunn will obviously be the wide player but god knows who the others are.

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I chipped in with the kneeling thread but usually I don’t tend to get involved in non football chats.

The usual suspects need to seriously piss off and go the other section of this forum. Absolutely sick to death of people grandstanding and hoping on their rather large soap boxes.

DO IT SOMEWHERE ELSE !

I hope there was a 3 strike rule where if you brake it your device blows up. It’s the same people all the effing time.

Another thread that’s been well the truly hijacked.

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How was I supposed to know we had two in before Bunn and Thompson arrived ?. The club don’t hardly tell anybody anything nowadays. Only two players fans had heard about were Bunn and Thompson.

That’s the impression other people got as well.

You didn’t suggest otherwise at all Northumb, you said ” Why would this point to trialists being binned? ”

You have such foresight you didn’t even listen to the bloody video in which Cox said it himself lol

The poor level of communication from club to the fans saved your bacon there. You have the nerve to keep whinging about it.

Northumb, stop extracting the urine. I wasn’t going to bite but the sheer cheek of you forced me.

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Cox said there’s scope to sign 7 on perm deals. Thompson and Bunn will make that 5 so enough room then for an out and out striker and one winger/striker.

Gk and CM on loans. Cox did say he’s agreed 2 already so that will be us done.

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Cox definitely said that he sent 2 packing so we must have eith had 4 to start with or had 2 sent them off and then got Thompson and Bunn in.

It would have been more clear if the club actually told fans anything !

Thompson he seems desperate to sign and Bunn it sounds like he’s waiting on because he picked up a knock on Saturday. Cox said he’ll see how he get’s through Tuesday’s game and if all is ok will sign him.

Defensively we’re pretty much set now if Thompson signs. A good GK short but we’ll have enough defenders at least.

Every cloud and all that !

Gk, another winger besides Bunn, CM and 2 strikers.

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BigLeftToe wrote:

Because he quite literally said we’ve had a couple in on trial who weren’t right for him and so sent them packing.

Northumbiron must not have watched it bless him.

2 fresh one’s in to replace Bunn and the mystery LB.

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cassidystash wrote:

A local NL team have been selling their new kit to supporters for 10 days. The supplier is Macron, so it’s tempting to ask why.

Kenny’s right. It will be covid. Whenever anything is wrong with this club, 99.9% it’s covid.

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I’d have him back in an instant.

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Season starts soon and we’re only 7 players short.

This is club is a bloody car crash.

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Watson might be going out on loan for the season. No idea. I find it odd that we’d pay him off and not pay Turan or Jarvis up.

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