Players to Win the Conference

Beautyman has had a very good season for Sutton from midfield. 11 goals too.

Quoted from Marinerdeano

Beautyman has had a very good season for Sutton from midfield. 11 goals too.

Why would he sign for us? Based upon how they’ve progressed if they don’t take our place in the EFL they’ll be a rival for promotion.

Quoted from Theimperialcoroner

It should be a given that we be challenging for the play off in that league ( I know it’s not). We need to do something we’ve not done for forty years though and win a league. Play offs are too much of a lottery.

Don’t disagree but let’s not kid ourselves there will have to be some serious changes for us to be in a position we’re we can consider ourselves a side that could win that league.

I think we’d be deluded to think that top 6 won’t be a big challenge.  

Quoted from promotion plaice

Assuming the worst happens we should have one of the best playing budgets in the Conference.

There will be only two clubs on full EFL parachute payments and one will be us.

I doubt it. £500k needs paying to Fenty by 1878 and I assume a lot of contracts will be getting paid up too.

Hopefully things go smoothly with easing out of lockdown and we can have capacity crowds in August because that will help massively.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

I have seen Hurst taking in Chesterfield games in the National League so his knowledge will be there. I take the point about a Disley or Pearson following him for 5 years of stability but I bet Coke stays on for at least 12 months.

We need stability and not another roll of the dice. Hurst is a safe pair of hands and I hope that when he leaves this club, we build on his solid foundations.

Quoted from ginnywings

Disagree totally with this. His focus will be on players at that level, even when he was at Ipswich. He will know plenty of players from League 1 down I would guess. He will also know the up and coming players from the top leagues, who we can get on loan, or pick up if they are released.

Fair enough, I hope you're both right and I'm wrong. Two things I would say here though...

Is Coke good enough? He puts a shift in and is aggressive which is great, but I'm not convinced.

And also regarding the Ipswich/League 1 down comment, I'd fully expect him to have a good knowledge of L1/L2 players but I was talking about Conference down really. If he has still got good connections and knows who he wants then great, but I'm not sure if he will. He didn't try to tap into the non-league market at Ipswich or Shrewsbury as far as I can remember.

In my opinion Coke is not good enough no. Yes he was an improvement on what we had but that reflects on how dreadful we were.

Remember this, last time we were in the conference we had Disley, was we ever good enough to threaten for the title? No. Was Disley better than anything we have now? Yes.

With Disley and clay and Nolan as the 3 competing for the central 2 positions, we weren't good enough. Sobering thought.

Our aim has to be for the title, and if we fall short we get a second bite of the cherry via playoffs.

We need to aim for a central pairing better than Disley and clay.

Quoted from toontown

In my opinion Coke is not good enough no. Yes he was an improvement on what we had but that reflects on how dreadful we were.

Remember this, last time we were in the conference we had Disley, was we ever good enough to threaten for the title? No. Was Disley better than anything we have now? Yes.

With Disley and clay and Nolan as the 3 competing for the central 2 positions, we weren't good enough. Sobering thought.

Our aim has to be for the title, and if we fall short we get a second bite of the cherry via playoffs.

We need to aim for a central pairing better than Disley and clay.

For context, Disley had just made 29 appearances in a Shrewsbury side that had just missed out on automatic promotion from League Two by a single point. That's a reminder of what a brilliant signing he was even before he had gone on to become such a great servant to the club, and how lucky we were to get him.

I don't think we've made a central midfield signing of that calibre, or anything close, since we got back in the league.

I think Disley broke his ankle in his first season at Shrewsbury and barely played a game. He got more game time in his second season there and I reckon that injury set him back enough to bring him onto our radar.

Otherwise he was a League 2 player at the very least, and probably should've been playing L1.

Quoted from Theimperialcoroner

He also signed Summerfield and that other dud from York who had Ben relegated. It showed.

Nowt wrong with Summerfield in my opinion, not technically great but there wasn't a blade of grass he didn't cover and always stuck a foot in.

I’m sick of this claim that we never challenged for the title. People seem to forget we were a point off Barnet going into Easter Weekend before, in fairness, blowing it.