Some great names linked with us!! Interesting what the next few weeks bring and if there is any truth in some of these names, STs will start to sell too.

A little bit more positivity creeping back in too! I think the Takeover rumours are a little wide of the mark (we can but hope)!

The biggest positive for me so far is that MJ is selling the Club as ‘We are going to go for it this season!’

Fingers crossed that there are some great names incoming!!

UTM

Sounds like the fire brigade roll call in Trumpton.

Linked is one thing getting them to sign on the dotted is another , but staying hopeful this club our club badly needs some success it’s been 20 years ffs

Quoted from dapperz fun pub

Linked is one thing getting them to sign on the dotted is another , but staying hopeful this club our club badly needs some success it’s been 20 years ffs

Based on nothing at all I am still hopeful that a resurgent Town side at the right end of the table from the start could see the SOLD OUT signs for home games and get some much needed momentum . We need a start and some goals scored in games on the field and some positive news off the field.....

Will Mumba and Hanson be signing once their Butlins concert contracts have expired?

Quoted from Abdul19

Will Mumba and Hanson be signing once their Butlins concert contracts have expired?

The team running out to MMMBop would be quite something ( :-/)

Quoted from 1542

Some great names linked with us!! Interesting what the next few weeks bring and if there is any truth in some of these names, STs will start to sell too.

A little bit more positivity creeping back in too! I think the Takeover rumours are a little wide of the mark (we can but hope)!

The biggest positive for me so far is that MJ is selling the Club as ‘We are going to go for it this season!’

Fingers crossed that there are some great names incoming!!

UTM

Don't fall for it!

Lets see how "going for it" pans out in terms of actual signings.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

Don't fall for it!

Lets see how "going for it" pans out in terms of actual signings.

We were told not to have such high expectations last season and the FGR loss might have brought us down to earth,

So I like you will wait until we have signed all the players coming in before I except we are going for it this season.

I love the summer optimism and I intend to fully immerse myself in it and savour it before the crash inevitably happens.

Hell, I am even excited that we've signed a 32 year old striker with 4 goals who Salford don't want!

Quoted from psgmariner

I love the summer optimism and I intend to fully immerse myself in it and savour it before the crash inevitably happens.

Hell, I am even excited that we've signed a 32 year old striker with 4 goals who Salford don't want!

Sounds like your new beers going down a treat  ;D

Quoted from psgmariner

I love the summer optimism and I intend to fully immerse myself in it and savour it before the crash inevitably happens.

Hell, I am even excited that we've signed a 32 year old striker with 4 goals who Salford don't want!

Love it PSG, false hope is what the summer is all about for us long term Mariners fans  :)

I remember the optimism when we signed former Brentford captain and player of the year Matt Heywood, and that lasted right up until we kicked off, and Kevin Ellison ran rings around him   :(

Quoted from lee65

Love it PSG, false hope is what the summer is all about for us long term Mariners fans  :)

I remember the optimism when we signed former Brentford captain and player of the year Matt Heywood, and that lasted right up until we kicked off, and Kevin Ellison ran rings around him   :(

We should have signed Ellison years ago bloody great player at our level.

Quoted from psgmariner

I love the summer optimism and I intend to fully immerse myself in it and savour it before the crash inevitably happens.

Hell, I am even excited that we've signed a 32 year old striker with 4 goals who Salford don't want!

Didn’t Salford want him? You maybe right but not seen anything confirming this. Maybe he didn’t want to be their due to location, or maybe, like Arnold, he thought that the place was unprofessional and wanted out himself?

Not sure which of the above is correct but people seem to be assuming that Salford didn’t want him

Quoted from Posh Harry

Didn’t Salford want him? You maybe right but not seen anything confirming this. Maybe he didn’t want to be their due to location, or maybe, like Arnold, he thought that the place was unprofessional and wanted out himself?

Not sure which of the above is correct but people seem to be assuming that Salford didn’t want him

He said in his own words from the horses mouth that traveling to Manchester was the main reason and wanted something closer to his family.

I'm not sure whose decision it was.

Sure it was reported as him being released originally, but don't suppose he was bothered if he was travelling all that way so perhaps a mutual decision. Anyway Salford reject or not, fingers crossed he rediscovers his form of a few years ago.

Quoted from lee65

Love it PSG, false hope is what the summer is all about for us long term Mariners fans  :)

I remember the optimism when we signed former Brentford captain and player of the year Matt Heywood, and that lasted right up until we kicked off, and Kevin Ellison ran rings around him   :(

Well it wasn't that difficult considering Matt Heywood had the speed and turning ability of a fridge.

And that's being unkind to the fridge.....

……, he had Richard Hope giving cover though  :)

Radio Humberside suggesting Hanson willing to take a pay cut to secure a move back up north.

Quoted from lee65

And that's being unkind to the fridge.....

……, he had Richard Hope giving cover though  :)

At least we can laugh about all this stuff now. We've come a long way since we had the fridge and Bambi on ice in defence.

Quoted from Kris2

At least we can laugh about all this stuff now. We've come a long way since we had the fridge and Bambi on ice in defence.

We actually haven’t though.  We are pretty much exactly the same position as when they played for us.

Quoted from psgmariner

Radio Humberside suggesting Hanson willing to take a pay cut to secure a move back up north.

Would be a great signing!

Would get around 10 goals, and boost Green and the midfielders record

Quoted from Kris2

At least we can laugh about all this stuff now. We've come a long way since we had the fridge and Bambi on ice in defence.

Have we??

We went into non league after them, and now find ourselves in the same, or slightly worse position in league 2.

How can you possibly compare our situation in League 2 mid way through the summer, when the fixtures haven't even been released, we've made one signing and havent even kicked a ball in pre season.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

Have we??

We went into non league after them, and now find ourselves in the same, or slightly worse position in league 2.

I would be stunned if we started this season with a centre back pairing that is even remotely comparable to the shambles that was Heywood and Hope.

If we start the season with Ludwig on his own at the back it’d be better than Heywood and Hope together!

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

Have we??

We went into non league after them, and now find ourselves in the same, or slightly worse position in league 2.

Seeing that "we went into non league after them" (in your own words), how on earth can we be in a slighty worse position now?

Quoted from Les Brechin

Seeing that "we went into non league after them" (in your own words), how on earth can we be in a slighty worse position now?

The poster I replied to stated "we have come a long way since those two defenders were here."

My reply was that obviously we have not come a long way since then; we got even worse when we got relegated and last seasons 17th placed finish is slightly worse than when they were playing.

I haven'tt looked it up where we finished that season as I am making the obvious point that we have not "come a long way" at all; at best we are where we started - strugglers in league  2.

I think it is about time everybody admitted we have been rubbish for nearly two decades; we have had some individuals who have lit things up like Reddy and Connell, but have remained stuck in leagues 4 and 5 and show absolutely no sign of doing anything about it.

Splitting hairs about which was the worst centre half pairing is missing the point.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

The poster I replied to stated "we have come a long way since those two defenders were here."

My reply was that obviously we have not come a long way since then; we got even worse when we got relegated and last seasons 17th placed finish is slightly worse than when they were playing.

I haven'tt looked it up where we finished that season as I am making the obvious point that we have not "come a long way" at all; at best we are where we started - strugglers in league  2.

I think it is about time everybody admitted we have been rubbish for nearly two decades; we have had some individuals who have lit things up like Reddy and Connell, but have remained stuck in leagues 4 and 5 and show absolutely no sign of doing anything about it.

Splitting hairs about which was the worst centre half pairing is missing the point.

Still, at least we won't be having a squad of alcoholics representing us next season as we did the season after Hope was here.  ;)

I interpreted 'coming a long way' as a journey, as in 'we've been to the depths of non-league and emerged from it'.

We're back at the same starting point, but we've had a lot to reflect on since the days of Hope & Heywood.

Hanson APPARENTLY at the club shop today...

Quoted from Jarmo.Is.God

Hanson APPARENTLY at the club shop today...

Why do all potential signings have to visit the club shop before hand. Do they have to buy their own kit or something?

Quoted from Malta_Mariner_90

Why do all potential signings have to visit the club shop before hand. Do they have to buy their own kit or something?

I think its more a case of being shown around, and being introduced to the staff

Quoted from Jarmo.Is.God

Hanson APPARENTLY at the club shop today...

Just started the 2nd verse of Mmm Bop I heard.   ;)

Quoted from Malta_Mariner_90

Why do all potential signings have to visit the club shop before hand. Do they have to buy their own kit or something?

;D

I've always wondered this. "I'm not signing until I'm satisfied you have adequate retail facilities".

Every new signing protocol... it's more of visiting the stadium than the club shop.

Quoted from Malta_Mariner_90

Why do all potential signings have to visit the club shop before hand. Do they have to buy their own kit or something?

Don’t give them any ideas...

Quoted from LH

Don’t give them any ideas...

Oh sh*t...deletes post. (Prays its not too late).  ;D

Quoted from Les Brechin

Still, at least we won't be having a squad of alcoholics representing us next season as we did the season after Hope was here.  ;)

I hope you are right, but who can tell? Last year our star signing had a police case hanging over him. It beggars belief we couldn't have found that out, or if we did know what the hell were we playing at? The alcoholics team may have been the lowest point, but we are still in the doldrums years later, in the same division, and indeed last time out we were at the bottom end of that.

I cannot believe the current regime are not getting more stick, but I guess this season people will vote with their feet.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Just started the 2nd verse of Mmm Bop I heard.   ;)

Mmm Shop?

I hope I'm wrong but I struggle to see how he could turn down a 2 year deal at Sunderland to join us. I wonder if he's used our interest as a way of trying to improve his deal and get some guarantees from Sunderland.

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

I hope I'm wrong but I struggle to see how he could turn down a 2 year deal at Sunderland to join us. I wonder if he's used our interest as a way of trying to improve his deal and get some guarantees from Sunderland.

I agree. And I don't blame him if he has.

Great to have him here last season and it gets us a reputation for playing and developing players like this. But I can't imagine we're seriously in the frame.

Supposedly turned down because he believes he wouldn't get first team football there. I can't see him coming to Town, the ONLY chance he could is Jolley trying to sell him the idea of us 'going for it' this season and attempting promotion. Maybe even a one year deal could tempt him. But I highly doubt it, can all hope I suppose.

Wouldn't we have to pay compensation as he's under 23? Not sure we'd go for a one-year contract if paying compensation.

Quoted from Southwark Mariner

Wouldn't we have to pay compensation as he's under 23? Not sure we'd go for a one-year contract if paying compensation.

Ah yeah quite possibly. I believe he would only come here if we thought we could get promoted to L1.

Similar situation to when Scunny signed Martin Paterson. They ended up paying 400k at tribunal, but he scored plenty for them and sold for a profit.
To seriously try and get Embleton would be a risky and ambitious move that the current board are not capable of.

Quoted from headingly_mariner

To seriously try and get Embleton would be a risky and ambitious move that the current board are not capable of.

Not one that any future board would be capable of either I suspect

There's no way Embleton is coming here!

Quoted from gtfc98

There's no way Embleton is coming here!

The thing is that Sunderland have a load of midfielders many of whom are likely to be ahead of Embleton this season - Leadbitter, Cattermole, Ethan Robson, Honeyman, McGeady, Gooch and O'Nien for example. Their best approach might be to loan him out to a side in League 2 just to keep him for the longer term.

A bit of an embarrassment of riches for them to handle

Embleton has offers from the Championship and SPL. He’s not coming here, although I wish he would!

Is it really beyond the realms of possibility that Embleton could actually come back here?

Nope not a chance.  According to the Sunderland chronicle they seem to think he has signed although there is nothing official.

Actually Embleton is one of two youngsters who haven't signed yet though it is expected he will. If you could bring in Mumba on loan and Mr Jolley can get his best out of him you'd have a very good replacement but he ought really be in our first-team squad.