New Players?

[Dr Bob]

Can't imagine cutting down on the number of letters to be put on the back of shirts is going to make much of a dent in the club's debt. Come on Lenagan - put your hand in your pocket for a few multi-syllabic monikers.

[Dartford Ox]

Can't imagine cutting down on the number of letters to be put on the back of shirts is going to make much of a dent in the club's debt. Come on Lenagan - put your hand in your pocket for a few multi-syllabic monikers.

Back in the 70's Palace were known as the team with long names. Paul & Martin Hinshelwood, Dave Swindlehurst, a Robinson and a Nicholas to name but a few. Their club shop must have made a fortune if shirt names were sold by the letter.

[Mooro]

http://www.oufc.co.uk/news/article/0014 ... 66393.aspx

Another one for the DevSquad.
Stood out in exit trials at the end of the season. I would expect to see more picked up from those sessions and/or additional trials set up during pre-season.

[JoeyBeauchamp]

Sky have latched on to the Kennedy rumours

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/8780542/?

[Mooro]

Mumblings on the other side that he is in for a medical today, so maybe more than just sky being two weeks behind everyone else.

[JoeyBeauchamp]

Mumblings on the other side that he is in for a medical today, so maybe more than just sky being two weeks behind everyone else.

A medical that might not have gone all that well

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22781991

[A-Ro]

Anybody else heard a rumour about Dave Kitson?

It could be my brother just winding me up.

[joepoolman]

Anybody else heard a rumour about Dave Kitson?

It could be my brother just winding me up.

I've read it a few times on twitter, but surely he's too expensive, this is a guy that was bought for £5.5m 5 years ago, and was probably on at least £15,000 a week until 3 years ago.

[OUFC4eva]

Kitson was earning £18,000 per week at Portsmouth (no wonder they went bust)
in 2010/2011.

He would be a good signing alongside a poacher i.e Tubbs.

Those two would get us close to automatic.

[Kernow Yellow]

Anybody else heard a rumour about Dave Kitson?

It could be my brother just winding me up.

I've read this thread on the other place, if that counts. Where it is also alleged that he is the Guardian's Secret Footballer, if that is of any interest to anyone.

[OUFC4eva]

Where will ex-Plymouth Argyle left back Bhasera end up - he appears to have gone missing.

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Plymout ... story.html

[joepoolman]

Anybody else heard a rumour about Dave Kitson?

It could be my brother just winding me up.

I've read this thread on the other place, if that counts. Where it is also alleged that he is the Guardian's Secret Footballer, if that is of any interest to anyone.

There's a lot of people saying things on that thread like "it would be a statement of intent" and "it would make the rest of the league sit up and take notice", and I don't understand why that's such a good thing. Kitson's game has been declining ever since he left Reading and I don't see why that would stop if he signed for us.

I also don't see why all the talk is that we need a centre-forward, we have Marsh, Smalley and Beano, I'd like to see one other player to complement Beano, that knows where the net is but that would be enough. Move further back and we currently have two centre-halves, one is the superb Jake Wright, but the other is Michael Raynes, my priority would be to find an unspectacular but reliable partner for Wright, in the same way that Creighton was in the conference.

[Radley Rambler]

Anybody else heard a rumour about Dave Kitson?

It could be my brother just winding me up.

I've read this thread on the other place, if that counts. Where it is also alleged that he is the Guardian's Secret Footballer, if that is of any interest to anyone.

There's a lot of people saying things on that thread like "it would be a statement of intent" and "it would make the rest of the league sit up and take notice", and I don't understand why that's such a good thing. Kitson's game has been declining ever since he left Reading and I don't see why that would stop if he signed for us.

I also don't see why all the talk is that we need a centre-forward, we have Marsh, Smalley and Beano, I'd like to see one other player to complement Beano, that knows where the net is but that would be enough. Move further back and we currently have two centre-halves, one is the superb Jake Wright, but the other is Michael Raynes, my priority would be to find an unspectacular but reliable partner for Wright, in the same way that Creighton was in the conference.

I think you've answered your own question with your answer! Marsh has practically no league experience, Beano will get about 15 a season and Smalley - well if he gets 10 next season we'll be lucky. I agree about the Raynes issue though - ok as cover but not as first choice. We need a good striker, centre back and probably another good central midfielder at least, if not more.

[theox]

Angelo Simone ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Simone on trial. Another midfielder..........

[joepoolman]

I think you've answered your own question with your answer! Marsh has practically no league experience, Beano will get about 15 a season and Smalley - well if he gets 10 next season we'll be lucky. I agree about the Raynes issue though - ok as cover but not as first choice. We need a good striker, centre back and probably another good central midfielder at least, if not more.

Yes but that's not a bad front three, especially when you look at the top scorers of Cheltenham whose top scorer had less than Craddock and Beano, or even Gillingham last year, we have one striker who imo almost guarantees you 15-20 goals if he's fit and happy, a young player with a lot of promise, and Smalley who I agree won't score loads of goals but has ability and just needs to find consistency. If you can find a partner for Beano that you know is likely to get about 12 or more goals, and factor in that Alfie should get double figures again then that sounds pretty good to me.

So going into next season I'm fairly happy about the potential of the front line, especially given that it seems generally accepted that we're going to sign one fairly decent forward, but that the back we already have less centre halves than forwards, and there's precious little talk of more at the moment, which is why I have a lot more concern about the defence.

I'd also like to add a winger on to the list of players we need, seeing as Rigg and Alfie are our only two wingers as I write and I didn't like seeing Heslop or Smalley out there last season, and I don't really want to see that sort of thing next season.