Signings

Seem to have managed to have lost track who has come into the club, hopefully I am not the only one!

Does anyone have a list of players in , where they from and age and position they play?

Defenders
Bilel Mohsni age 33 - Panachaiki (Greece) - 2 year deal.
Danny Preston 20 from Notts Forest on loan
Duncan Idehen 18  stepped up from YT.

Midfielders
Danny Rose, 32 from Swindon Town FC 2 Year deal.
George Williams 25 - FGR - 2 Years
Sean Scannell 29  - Blackpool FC - 2 Year Deal
Owura Edwards - 19 - Bristol City - 1 Year Loan.  
Terry Taylor - 19 - Wolves - 1 Year Loan
Luke Spokes - 20- Taunton - not sure of how long he signed for.

Forwards
Montel Gibson - 23 - Halesowen - 3 Year deal.
Ira Jackson Jr  -23- Folkestone - 2 Year Deal
Alhagi Sisay - 20 - Aberystwyth - 1 year deal.

Quoted from Tinymariner

Defenders
Bilel Mohsni age 33 - 2 year deal.
Danny Preston 20 from Notts Forest on loan
Duncan Idehen 18  stepped up from YT.

Midfielders
Danny Rose, 32 from Swindon Town FC 2 Year deal.
George Williams 25 - FGR - 2 Years
Sean Scannell 29  - Blackpool FC - 2 Year Deal
Owura Edwards - 19 - Bristol City - 1 Year Loan.  
Terry Taylor - 19 - Wolves - 1 Year Loan

Forwards
Montel Gibson - 23 - 2 Year deal.
Ira Jackson Jr  -23- 2 Year Deal
Alhagi Sisay - 20 - 1 year deal.

Gibson 3 years.....who was the last player to get a 3 year deal

I read somewhere (probably from Taunton) that Spokes has signed a 1 year deal.

Has Taylor been confirmed yet by the club?

I believe Joey Hope is stepping up to the first team from YT too and possibly Evan Khouri, the youngster we got from West Ham last Year.

Quoted from Boris Johnson

Gibson 3 years.....who was the last player to get a 3 year deal

Just hope this isn't history repeating itself, last person to get a 3 year deal was.....drum roll please.....
HARRY CARDWELL...

Quoted from gtfc82

Has Taylor been confirmed yet by the club?

Yeah, this morning, but via the telegraph site....  

Also say's he after another young lad, who is very exciting

IH knows what to say to get people interested for sure, can't help but love the guy

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Just hope this isn't history repeating itself, last person to get a 3 year deal was.....drum roll please.....
HARRY CARDWELL...

Not true. Cardwell originally signed a 2 year deal, then had a year extension added to it.

Starbuck, Hope and Painter were three other youth players offered contracts in the summer

https://www.grimsby-townfc.co.uk/news/2020/july/meet-the-quartet-who-have-been-offered-pro-deals/

It's a bit vague whether they signed or not, but guessing they did.

A mate of mine reckoned Cardwell scored just 1 league goal in his 3 years at the club (away Northampton).

Does anyone know if this is true? I appreciate he was never really regarded as a first team regular, and he had a few injury problems, but even so that's bad.

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I believe Joey Hope is stepping up to the first team from YT too and possibly Evan Khouri, the youngster we got from West Ham last Year.

Evan Khouri is only a 2nd year YT.

Joey Hope, Joe Starbuck, Duncan Idehen and Cameron Painter are the new Pro's this season.

Quoted from Boris Johnson

Gibson 3 years.....who was the last player to get a 3 year deal

Wasn't it Clifton? Seem to remember Hurst have him a 3-year deal?

Before that... Only one I remember was Hearn.

Quoted from Mighty_Mariner

Wasn't it Clifton? Seem to remember Hurst have him a 3-year deal?

Before that... Only one I remember was Hearn.

Pretty sure Bogle was 3 years.

As for recent, I was thinking Clifton as well.

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A mate of mine reckoned Cardwell scored just 1 league goal in his 3 years at the club (away Northampton).

Does anyone know if this is true? I appreciate he was never really regarded as a first team regular, and he had a few injury problems, but even so that's bad.

Aye: https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=87992

Quoted from Mighty_Mariner

Wasn't it Clifton? Seem to remember Hurst have him a 3-year deal?

Yeah, probably. Jolley gave him a 3 year deal, summer 2018.

Quoted from RichMariner

A mate of mine reckoned Cardwell scored just 1 league goal in his 3 years at the club (away Northampton).

Does anyone know if this is true? I appreciate he was never really regarded as a first team regular, and he had a few injury problems, but even so that's bad.

Scored as many as glen Downey then!

Quoted from Posh Harry

Pretty sure Bogle was 3 years.

As for recent, I was thinking Clifton as well.

McKeown.

This guy got a 3 year deal.  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/13413670

Halcyon days there. I'd forgotten that not only were Shorty and Shouty good with a laptop but they were literate as well.

Thanks Tiny!
I feel up to date now!

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

Halcyon days there. I'd forgotten that not only were Shorty and Shouty good with a laptop but they were literate as well.

Yeah, we were spoilt.

I make it 11 new lads in the doors then including this lad Taylor from Wolves

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

Halcyon days there. I'd forgotten that not only were Shorty and Shouty good with a laptop but they were literate as well.

That article sums Fenty up as so many have done over the years. I suppose the only reason it made the BBC sport website was because it was so cringeworthy.

Meanwhile King John would have been congratulating himself on a "good bit of PR for the club there. "

Will his reign ever end and put us out of our misery?

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Evan Khouri is only a 2nd year YT.

Joey Hope, Joe Starbuck, Duncan Idehen and Cameron Painter are the new Pro's this season.

Evan Khouri has been given the number 31 shirt.

Hope 28
Starbuck 29
Painter 30
Idehen 32.

It's great to see so many YTs stepping up to the first team squad.

Would strongly recommend using Cod Almighty's squad / contract tracker since the one on the OS is often wrong or out of date:

http://codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?article=4202

Last player to get a 3 year deal before Gibson is I believe Sam Russell - just before Covid.

Quoted from Tinymariner

Evan Khouri has been given the number 31 shirt.

Hope 28
Starbuck 29
Painter 30
Idehen 32.

It's great to see so many YTs stepping up to the first team squad.

I think Pollock is of the same age group as those listed too isn't he?  Just that he was given a pro deal early.  So that's 5 from that age group with pro deals.  Can't remember the last time we had such a high number from a single year group.

Quoted from diehardmariner

I think Pollock is of the same age group as those listed too isn't he?  Just that he was given a pro deal early.  So that's 5 from that age group with pro deals.  Can't remember the last time we had such a high number from a single year group.

Didn't we also sell Rumarn Burrell to Middlesborough from that age group?

Quoted from Tinymariner

Didn't we also sell Rumarn Burrell to Middlesborough from that age group?

We did. Not sure how he's doing but it's a pity we can't keep hold of promising young players like him.

Quoted from Tinymariner

Evan Khouri has been given the number 31 shirt.

Hope 28
Starbuck 29
Painter 30
Idehen 32.

It's great to see so many YTs stepping up to the first team squad.

Oh yeah I didn't mean he won't be involved (obviously he already has been) but was just pointing out he's not a first year pro like the other 4 players that's all.

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Didn't we also sell Rumarn Burrell to Middlesborough from that age group?

I think he was the year before.  Pretty sure he was due to end his YT tenure and sign a pro deal the summer 'Boro snapped him up.

Either way, it's a good return on the youth and further highlights a) the importance of the set-up to the club and b) the great job done by Neil Woods and his staff.

Quoted from Tinymariner

Didn't we also sell Rumarn Burrell to Middlesborough from that age group?

Burrell was the same year group as Curran, Battersby, and the recently departed Buckley. Pollock is a year below them alongside Joey Hope and Joe Starbuck. Think Khouri might be younger still but not sure on that one.

Quoted from Tinymariner

Evan Khouri has been given the number 31 shirt.

Hope 28
Starbuck 29
Painter 30
Idehen 32.

It's great to see so many YTs stepping up to the first team squad.

It is, but it remains to be seen if it's because we have a particularly good batch of players at the moment, or it's out of necessity. I've always been an advocate of developing players through the youth system and also scouring the lower leagues for those that have been missed and have potential, but one has to ask whether this surge in youth players is as a consequence of having a salary cap to work to, and the fact that you now have to have home grown players in the matchday squad?

I'm really hoping they are there because they have the potential to be first teamers, and not just to make up the numbers. We do seem on the face of it to have some good 'uns coming through.

Quoted from Boris Johnson

Gibson 3 years.....who was the last player to get a 3 year deal

Probably the last person who said they’d play for £400 a week so the board tied him up to it for 3 years 🤣

Mckeown wasn't it.

Quoted from ginnywings

It is, but it remains to be seen if it's because we have a particularly good batch of players at the moment, or it's out of necessity. I've always been an advocate of developing players through the youth system and also scouring the lower leagues for those that have been missed and have potential, but one has to ask whether this surge in youth players is as a consequence of having a salary cap to work to, and the fact that you now have to have home grown players in the matchday squad?

I'm really hoping they are there because they have the potential to be first teamers, and not just to make up the numbers. We do seem on the face of it to have some good 'uns coming through.

Khouri looked very competent when he came on. I hope we get him signed up on a pro deal as soon as possible.
Starbuck made a couple of appearances last season and Holloway suggested he was very close to the first team squad before the season got cancelled.
Clifton has been capable at this level even if his progression has stalled a little lately.
Wright looks promising although a bit hot and cold, which happens with that type of player when young.
Burrell was snapped up by a Championship club.
Pollock has established himself as a first choice centre back.

I'd say it's pretty good for a team at this level, and 5 of the above were before the new financial problems and salary cap were around.

Neil woods (and the youth coaches)  have worked wonders and deserve every single bit of credit they are due. It just shows his strength of character, coming back from having to manage that bunch of pi5s taking bell ends that stole a living from the club. Long may it continue and am sure IH recognises the work that is being done 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼