Striker set to sign before the weekend

Wonder if anything will come of MJ's meeting yesterday?

Hopefully news on a new signing in the next 36 hours??

Just taken him down Freemo to see the work being done on our new stadium

Quoted from Civvy at last

Funnily enough I lent him a time machine this morning.

He brought it back yesterday !!

PMSL


Was it you who knocked Bob Monkhouse's joke book?

I hope we have more signings on the horizon because I haven't been really impressed as yet and the start of season is rapidly approaching.   I will be ever grateful for Jolly saving us from the drop but at the moment my expectations aren't very high for next season with the team we have. It's all very good pinning your hopes on a manager but he also has to have a team able to carry out his wishes.  My fingers are crossed as it doesn't look like anybody else will be coming-I hope I am wrong

Relax. Jolley has already stated he wants in at least 2/3 more players. At least one striker is on the list of targets and we are very active in the market. Im guessing hes holding out for his top targets instead of signing anyone hence we held back from signing Antoine-Fortune as yet.
As we are close to the season starting now all free agents will start panicking and seek to get signed up with clubs as soon as they can. But in doing so have managed to dodge the gruelling pre-season.
Sneeky beggars

Quoted from golfer

I hope we have more signings on the horizon because I haven't been really impressed as yet and the start of season is rapidly approaching.   I will be ever grateful for Jolly saving us from the drop but at the moment my expectations aren't very high for next season with the team we have. It's all very good pinning your hopes on a manager but he also has to have a team able to carry out his wishes.  My fingers are crossed as it doesn't look like anybody else will be coming-I hope I am wrong

A couple of games only and you're not impressed.

Again, still in pre-season.

You seem very well informed.

Depends what you mean by high expectations?

Winning league? Automatic promotion? Play offs? Midtable?

I dont expect miracles but i do expect a dramatic improvement on last season in a better style of play, scoring more goals, playing at a higher tempo and having a team that is visably putting in  the effort. If we get that and improve on 18th then that, to me, is acceptable.

Doesnt mean to say i dont want us challenging at the top but essentially a new team, new staff and new style means that may be pushing it.

still think we will see a couple of more players in before we kick off the season

I must agree by being slightly underwhelmed so far apart from the signing of john welsh which i think is a fantastic bit of buisness.

I have faith in jolley.

There is absolutely no point in judging players or a team until well into the season. Some of the signings will surprise us in a good way, and some will be underwhelming. I've given up trying to figure out what is and isn't a good signing, and i gave up attaching significance to pre season friendlies a long time ago.

We are only 2 seasons back into the league and are on our 4th permanent manager already, with a couple of caretakers in there as well. The turnover of players has also been as high as i can remember in those 2 years. Slade did a hell of a lot of damage while he was here, and to me it feels like we have gone back to square one again, so i will be happy if we now consolidate, and look to build something over the next season or so. Jolley looks very much like he is using the Burnley model; bringing in hard working, but maybe unfashionable players who he will try and knit into an efficient unit. He has already said he will need more than 1 window to get us where he wants us to go.

So basically, it's a wait and see from me, and nothing can possibly be as bad as last season, can it?

Quoted from Stew0_0

As we are close to the season starting now all free agents will start panicking and seek to get signed up with clubs as soon as they can.

We've signed a load of them in the past. Never again I hope. We need players that some other sodomist wants not some useless tosser who is so desperate for a club that he'll snatch Jolley's hand off come to Grimsby Town