Quote Originally Posted by sieb1886 View Post
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.