Rumour mill

[sieb1886]

So, another forward/winger who can no doubt “play anywhere across the front” from the @rse end of English football. Another Jermaine Hylton! I had hoped we had moved away from this type of signing but sadly not.

Thoroughly uninspiring.

Can't disagree - when we've got the best part of 11/12 personnel to replace, I'd have expected this to be a fella that we brought in on the last day as a 'desperate' signing. Hoping I'm proved wrong and he turns out to be a rough diamond !

[Handsome_Devil]

Can't disagree - when we've got the best part of 11/12 personnel to replace, I'd have expected this to be a fella that we brought in on the last day as a 'desperate' signing. Hoping I'm proved wrong and he turns out to be a rough diamond !

As someone pointed out on PienBovril, his record isn't dissimilar to that of Marvin Johnson when we signed him. And after a bit of time to settle, he did alright...

So there are indeed diamonds out there and I don't mind us searching for them - even if the nature of these punts is you need to put up with a few duds to find the gems.

But that's a completely different project to staffing the first XI here and now, and we're currently a million miles away from being ready there. We need (several) solid, experienced pros in by the start of the league season or we're favourites to go down.