The Ska Face Summer rumour/transfer thread

Six pages of absolutely intercourse all. A promising start.

Wonder how long it will be till this thread passes the scunthorpe thread count will it happen before the season end and just how many pages of drivel will we read before the first ball of the 23/24 season is kicked in anger

It's just for a laugh remember. No negging.

Them's the rules.

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

Six pages of absolutely intercourse all. A promising start.

It hasn’t even got good yet…

When’s the bloke with the mate booking rooms in a local hotel back?

Quoted from ska face

Ok Rumour Fans, the standings in table of trust at the end of last summer’s transfer window looked like this -

Surrey97
Pontoonlew
Hagrid
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Mendonca1995
Corkyefes
coddy60

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It Bites (R)
Lukeo (R)
Telegraph Sport (R)
WozofGrimsby (R)


January was an absolute skip fire. Mendonca1995’s source at an unnamed local hotel let him down badly and absolutely torched his reputation. Usually steady Hagrid went big on deadline day only for the Dallas deal to disintegrate, along with his reliability. Pontoonlew & Surrey97 kept their heads down in Jan, wisely, but at least one good source appears to have dried up for pontoonlew this season.

I genuinely have visions of you in a smoke filled office, like a 1970s bookie, with a big intercourse off spreadsheet and wall charts trying to keep across the current standings… Best of luck mate! 😂

coddy60 is this year’s dark horse mate, good pedigree and steady form, just needs to kick on with one big win this summer.

The real fun is in trying to work out who the sources are and whether they can be trusted. It’s like Inception & Moneyball all rolled into one. I had planned to go back through the Jan thread and pull out every name that was mentioned, just to show how badly it went for everyone, maybe I will if I can be ársed.

As for my own predictions, reckon we’ll see Bennett and Vernam in based on nothing but them being a decent fit. Would’ve liked Smith at Orient but think his run at Barnet will attract a few clubs down south & he’ll stay local. At 28, Haughton must think this may be his last chance of a decent league club so might be worth a shout. Ultimately I think it’ll be more George Lloyd-style signings, relatively obscure & underperforming but Hurst can get a tune out of them.

Up the rumour mill

I'm certainly hoping to see some names which are almost impossible to type, let alone pronounce, so that people can feverishly misspell them. I always had to check how to type Dieseruvwe (hope I got that right).

I'd imagine these would mostly be African names, but a player of Polish origin might be able to sneak in there.

That relegation zone needs some competition I reckon, so here I am!

With Crocombe off to Falkirk, Iceland have finally decided to apologise for the cod wars and to show they are truly sorry are facilitating the transfer of Jokull Andresson to Town on a season long loan from Reading.

Quoted from ska face

coddy60 is this year’s dark horse mate, good pedigree and steady form, just needs to kick on with one big win this summer.

The real fun is in trying to work out who the sources are and whether they can be trusted. It’s like Inception & Moneyball all rolled into one. I had planned to go back through the Jan thread and pull out every name that was mentioned, just to show how badly it went for everyone, maybe I will if I can be ársed.

As for my own predictions, reckon we’ll see Bennett and Vernam in based on nothing but them being a decent fit. Would’ve liked Smith at Orient but think his run at Barnet will attract a few clubs down south & he’ll stay local. At 28, Haughton must think this may be his last chance of a decent league club so might be worth a shout. Ultimately I think it’ll be more George Lloyd-style signings, relatively obscure & underperforming but Hurst can get a tune out of them.

Up the rumour mill

I already posted on the Fishy several days ago that Vernam was a done deal.  In January. Lincoln wouldn't release him until they had his replacement who was coming from Portsmouth [Recco Hackett-Fairchild] but they in turn wanted to confirm a player in from Exeter and that fell through, so no move for Vernam to us.   Allegedly, the source, who will not be identified, is involved at Lincoln at a high level.

Quoted from ska face

coddy60 is this year’s dark horse mate, good pedigree and steady form, just needs to kick on with one big win this summer.

The real fun is in trying to work out who the sources are and whether they can be trusted. It’s like Inception & Moneyball all rolled into one. I had planned to go back through the Jan thread and pull out every name that was mentioned, just to show how badly it went for everyone, maybe I will if I can be ársed.

As for my own predictions, reckon we’ll see Bennett and Vernam in based on nothing but them being a decent fit. Would’ve liked Smith at Orient but think his run at Barnet will attract a few clubs down south & he’ll stay local. At 28, Haughton must think this may be his last chance of a decent league club so might be worth a shout. Ultimately I think it’ll be more George Lloyd-style signings, relatively obscure & underperforming but Hurst can get a tune out of them.

Up the rumour mill

My main source was very quiet in Jan, obviously coz sod all was happening, but he did say, which I pmd you, that Dallas was never on the cards, he made his intentions clear to Hursty.

Hoping for a better Summer, but I may have already peaked 😔