Billy Chadwick from Ull

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Yes, Hurst has more money and more time this season.  He also knows how current players have adapted to Div 2.

Another plus is that he generally has a good eye for a player.

The obstacle to overcome is persuading players to come here.  Our cup successes should have helped.

Genuinely, I think our biggest problem in the past has been bigger than money and bigger than geography. I suspect it's been getting people to even pick up the phone (or at least not put it down once they realised it was Grimsby on the other end).

Football is an incestuous game; people talk. We haven't been a place players wanted to come to, and probably for good reason. We have been a last resort. Of all the players that were with us during our first stint back in the league, how many players went onto better things and how many instead found themselves in a career tailspin? The ratios can't be good. We've killed a lot of careers, playing and managerial.

You can plaster "under new ownership" posters all over the place as much as you like, actions speak louder than words. And I'd like to think, possibly for the first time, prospective targets will genuinely believe that we are not the place we were. No longer the last resort. A genuinely good place to be, for now and for the future. All being well, we'll end this season with a top-half League Two finish and an FA Cup quarter final in the bag. That's not something the old Grimsby was capable of doing, as all the evidence only reaffirms. This is New Grimsby.

Whilst it's important to keep expectations realistic, I think this summer will be markedly different to those gone by. I really do.

Quoted from Nutsy

If we can start the season with
Armstrong
Khan-Lloyd-Vernam

I'd be very happy, not sure who would partner Harry behind that...

Going to have to learn how to pass it on the floor with this forward line

Quoted from Poojah

Genuinely, I think our biggest problem in the past has been bigger than money and bigger than geography. I suspect it's been getting people to even pick up the phone (or at least not put it down once they realised it was Grimsby on the other end).

Football is an incestuous game; people talk. We haven't been a place players wanted to come to, and probably for good reason. We have been a last resort. Of all the players that were with us during our first stint back in the league, how many players went onto better things and how many instead found themselves in a career tailspin? The ratios can't be good. We've killed a lot of careers, playing and managerial.

You can plaster "under new ownership" posters all over the place as much as you like, actions speak louder than words. And I'd like to think, possibly for the first time, prospective targets will genuinely believe that we are not the place we were. No longer the last resort. A genuinely good place to be, for now and for the future. All being well, we'll end this season with a top-half League Two finish and an FA Cup quarter final in the bag. That's not something the old Grimsby was capable of doing, as all the evidence only reaffirms. This is New Grimsby.

Whilst it's important to keep expectations realistic, I think this summer will be markedly different to those gone by. I really do.

I agree with you and would like to add that only good reports will come out of Scannell and others. I think that we are now a forward-thinking club and not one treading water. As much as money talks some players will want more and the cup run will show them what we are about.

Quoted from bedders78

Going to have to learn how to pass it on the floor with this forward line

On the floor? Why, are we moving to an indoor stadium?

Quoted from Nutsy

If we can start the season with
Armstrong
Khan-Lloyd-Vernam

I'd be very happy, not sure who would partner Harry behind that...

Cesc............

Quoted from HertsGTFC

It will be good to re-visit this post when the summer window closes.

The first part of the statement will be a definite More than 10 clubs with better budgets than us .Especially if a couple of the bigger ones don't go up .As for where they get players from I think vernam will be one of the only players we get from a higher league and then see if most of our business is non league and loans .But I would love to be wrong

Quoted from Norseman

The first part of the statement will be a definite More than 10 clubs with better budgets than us .Especially if a couple of the bigger ones don't go up .As for where they get players from I think vernam will be one of the only players we get from a higher league and then see if most of our business is non league and loans .But I would love to be wrong

I would love you to be wrong too.

I don't really care where they come from if they are good enough to improve the team!

What would we think of a front line that included the options of Vernam, Lloyd and Chadwick then + one other?

Where has this Chadwick guy come from? He seems to have done intercourse all in his career to justify a move to any EFL club.