2 new inbounds this week?

[Chicken Balti Pie]

Ardley gave an update saying we probably aren't signing anyone before Yeovil and that he's been offered lots of players but his targets are harder to get

[queenslandpie]

I thought you were talking about Hurricanes not players Foreign.

[ForeignLegion]

Cyclones mate, you're an Aussie not a Yank.

[queenslandpie]

Cyclones mate, you're an Aussie not a Yank.

Always English.

[slack_pie]

Ardley gave an update saying we probably aren't signing anyone before Yeovil and that he's been offered lots of players but his targets are harder to get

Must be bloody hard to convince anyone to come. Anyone who's good enough to get us out of this mess will most likely want to avoid us like the plague.

[irishpete]

Must be bloody hard to convince anyone to come. Anyone who's good enough to get us out of this mess will most likely want to avoid us like the plague.

It could also have the opposite effect.They could see it as a chance to become a hero? Hard I know,but it's there to grasp,especially if it is on loan

[ForeignLegion]

Exactly. Looks good for them if relegation is avoided, if it isn't, then it ain't their fault and they go back to where they came from. Barcelona hopefully.

[Mark_Ross]

It could also have the opposite effect.They could see it as a chance to become a hero? Hard I know,but it's there to grasp,especially if it is on loan

Any players joining us now are either:

(1) Suicide cases boarding the Titanic

(2) Good players who fancy themselves as saviours / heroes / etc.

[McCullochisGod]

Must be bloody hard to convince anyone to come. Anyone who's good enough to get us out of this mess will most likely want to avoid us like the plague.

Exactly and all the half decent players will have clubs. Massive week eh...!!! Twitters a wonderful thing....

[nw6pie]

Must be bloody hard to convince anyone to come. Anyone who's good enough to get us out of this mess will most likely want to avoid us like the plague.

It was interesting earlier this season when Joey Barton recalled a young kid from FC United of Manchester because they were losing all of the time and he considered it bad for the player’s development. You could argue a relegation scrap is “character-building” for a rookie, but there is the counter-argument that losing (like winning) becomes a habit.

I guess it comes down to Neal Ardley’s contacts and reputation. Has he forged a decent enough reputation in the game to be trusted with players if we’re looking for loans? Or, as seems to be more and more the case, does he have a good agent who has good players on his books he can send his way?

We keep hoping new players will be our salvation, but we also have to expect more from the current batch of 30-odd. If they can play like they did against Bury, why not every week? I know it’s clutching at straws, but it may be all we have to cling to. Let’s hope we fluke a result at Yeovil, because February is looking particularly daunting (Lincoln, FGR, Mansfield, Newport and Tranmere).