Transfer Window Reflection Thread

I love this debate around location, Grimsby isn’t moving from NEL so if it’s one of the blockers many (including myself) alongside a poor reputation believe it is then the club need to think about a strategy to attract the talent we all would like to see.

Clearly money is a factor so not only do we need to offer a decent basic you would imagine a package would need to include performance incentives, travel & subsistence support and for the more experienced players fees for coaching and education courses so they can start building for a career after football.

What I would also add is 2 spells in the NL a poor historic reputation as an employer and 16th in the EFL also does not make us that attractive. I’m convinced if recent league form had been better and we’d stayed realistically in touch with the play offs this window may have looked slightly better as players want to be part of a successful team.

So I guess the reason for posting the above is around managing expectations as the problems we have will only be conquered by long term building and change so this probably won’t be the last window where some supporters are disappointed.

I trust 1878 and we have a good manager who knows what to do so given time it will get better.

Oh yeah one final thing on the manager, about him being tight, stubborn, too picky and slow to react. I’m fairly confident that no poster on this board can back up their digs with real facts. I also think it’s safe to say he want success like all of us and is much better qualified in terms of experience, skills and knowledge than every poster on this board.

Time to leave it behind and get behind the lads I reckon.

A small part is still a part. It won't stop everyone but people will consider it

Quoted from HertsGTFC

I love this debate around location, Grimsby isn’t moving from NEL so if it’s one of the blockers many (including myself) alongside a poor reputation believe it is then the club need to think about a strategy to attract the talent we all would like to see.

Clearly money is a factor so not only do we need to offer a decent basic you would imagine a package would need to include performance incentives, travel & subsistence support and for the more experienced players fees for coaching and education courses so they can start building for a career after football.

What I would also add is 2 spells in the NL a poor historic reputation as an employer and 16th in the EFL also does not make us that attractive. I’m convinced if recent league form had been better and we’d stayed realistically in touch with the play offs this window may have looked slightly better as players want to be part of a successful team.

So I guess the reason for posting the above is around managing expectations as the problems we have will only be conquered by long term building and change so this probably won’t be the last window where some supporters are disappointed.

I trust 1878 and we have a good manager who knows what to do so given time it will get better.

Oh yeah one final thing on the manager, about him being tight, stubborn, too picky and slow to react. I’m fairly confident that no poster on this board can back up their digs with real facts. I also think it’s safe to say he want success like all of us and is much better qualified in terms of experience, skills and knowledge than every poster on this board.

Time to leave it behind and get behind the lads I reckon.

I broadly agree with that and we all know we won't be getting any marquee signings due to the cost.

If the strategy is to get longer term success by trying to blend a team within limited means then fair enough.

If location really is an issue then it means we may have to pay a bit more in wages to secure some key targets. Given the overall financial health of the club I would imagine there is room to do this on a selective basis.

January recruitment is always likely to be tough because most players are on contracts to the end of a particular season. It will be interesting to see how we do in the Summer, and this may be a better gauge to the ambitions of the club. .  

Not seen it mentioned but last day we were offered Tashan Oakley-Boothe but didn’t want him

It’s okay doubters we forgive you, and we all still love you too. 😉

Hold my hands up. Wtf do I know about deadline transfer day?

Quoted from forza ivano

Hold my hands up. Wtf do I know about deadline transfer day?

If only more posters were as ready to admit they were wrong like you

For the purposes of debate: Can we establish once and for all how many games we judge a players ability on? Clearly 0 isn’t enough but 1 apparently is. If someone had seen a player play against us and he’d had a stinker then is it that enough?

Let’s see after a few more games including some against some better opposition before we start the point scoring shall we?

Quoted from LH

For the purposes of debate: Can we establish once and for all how many games we judge a players ability on? Clearly 0 isn’t enough but 1 is. If someone had seen a player play against us and he’d had a stinker then is it that enough?

Let’s see after a few more games including some against some better opposition before we start the point scoring shall we?

Fully agree. Crewe were shocking today. We could just as easily find out in the coming weeks that was the only reason for their good performance today