The one thing missing

Quoted from aldi_01

Comedy gold this thread…

Was just thinking the same, can tell school holidays have started...

Buy an expensive striker who then breaks a leg in their first or second game - anyone remember Martin Pringle ??

Remember Chesterfield last year?

We will probably bring in the likes of Sam Bell or similar to try and develop another team's player.

I will not be surprised to find out that Hurst and/or others are contacting the likes of Aston Villa, Sunderland, Hull, Bristol City, and now Luton, to see which players they would be happy to.loan out to a caring Div 2 team, to bring on, develop, and harden up to full league football, with little risk to the parent club.

We may still find ourselves paying out for higher level wages than ours for a young development team player, with no guarantee of instant success.

Would that be considered any form of marquee signing...  ?? - no......but if Hurst unearths a hidden gem??

Eight weeks ago - 'That was the best two weeks in my 89 years as a Town fan'.

One competitive game later - 'The owners and manager need to start repaying my loyalty a bit more'.

Hysterical knicker wetting

To be fair, isn’t it just the usual couple of old moaners?

In all honesty, who would have honestly backed us to be promoted through 3 massive "against all odds" play off games - and who keeps thinking that it is still a dream situation  but now frighteningly real?

No, it's real, so everything has to upgrade within 8 weeks for management staff, players, new Directors, etc

Is it realistic to think that we are going to go on a run, and going for another promotion season?

A sudden turn of fortune, with a run of injuries, that sudden transfer, the dislocated shoulder problem, struggling to find replacement forward(s) going into the end of the transfer window - these are all things that will need to be overcome in order to hold our own, let alone aim for top 7 !!

Look again at the end of September, give everyone a fair chance to acclimatise to the higher level, see who Hurst can eventually persuade to join Town.

Then, let's return to a lively up to date debate in the team's fortunes !

Quoted from chaos33

To be fair, isn’t it just the usual couple of old moaners?

If being concerned about a lack of squad depth in certain areas makes me an ‘old moaner’, count me in.

There’s extenuating circumstances with the late end to last season and I totally understand that but I don’t like to see us looking unprepared.

I'm an old bloke. When I was younger, life was played out in a hurry; everything needed to be done 'now'. But I'm wiser now, I think. Life isn't always how i would like it to be, but 'it is what it is''. I would guess there are so many moving parts to PH's search for a truly prolific number 9 that it would consume every waking hour if he let it. He and his deputy, I'm sure, are doing their very best to find the 'right' player, the one with a 'spark', the one who will 'mesh' into the team and who will accept team discipline. Good luck to them in their efforts. People like me, who sit on the sidelines, should perhaps just give these guys the space to do their work.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

If being concerned about a lack of squad depth in certain areas makes me an ‘old moaner’, count me in.

There’s extenuating circumstances with the late end to last season and I totally understand that but I don’t like to see us looking unprepared.

There's 3 weeks of the transfer window left plus the loan market.  Chill.

Quoted from Lost in Lincoln

There's 3 weeks of the transfer window left plus the loan market.  Chill.

Transfer window ends when it ends. Including loans.