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For someone supposedly deeply concerned about our finances, players leaving, new recruits, Turnball, Roberts, the Board (yes, giveth with one hand, takes away with the other), etc, our fairly new Bru member seems to be quite enjoying his or her self! Just an observation. I personally welcome 414s views, particularly during silly season.
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Now half way tru July and still all quiet on the signings front … the silence is deafening…circa 26 days until KO away against Brackley.
Tad surprised at the lack of recruitment action .. squad very light on numbers bearing in mind the injury prone and suspensions that are bound to happen.
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The 5 recruited so far
Charton Ubo pleased looks a decent aquisition
Brogan pleased looks solid and will hopefully score a few from midfield (ala Butterfield)
Fishy pleased not sure at first but now settling in looking like a good option up front.
Nicolson pleased great bit of biz IMO solid and long throw merchant.
Rowley pleased Like the sound of this fella , good comments from Chesterfield fansHopefully a couple more to come in as suggested by LT be nice to see one of these a smaller nippy Sharp/HooperESK style striker goal poacher who can finish most chances.
UTI
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I still think we need a midfield destroyer/spoiler. Apart from Clunan who’s not overly physical anyway, who have we got in that bracket ?
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We already have potentially up to 7 centre Mids, can’t see the need for anymore or we are back to the usual scenario of overstocking again.
If we was to bring in one more, I’d prefer to see the forward line strengthened as one injury up there leaves us thin on the ground.
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My worry is that in the friendlies so far I’m not seeing too many convincing wing backs.
Given we have potentially 3 left backs, 1 right back and 2 wingers on the books but the only one that’s looked promising in the position is Scales who is primarily a midfielder.
Appreciate Kelly yet to appear and Denton and Barrows (who I assume will be first choice) may get better with practice but I think goals might be hard to come by if those 2 are our wide attacking threats.
Of course we would score if you played Roberts and Law at wing back but the back 3 would be busy.
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Shocked by young Braithwaite. Looked poor game before but looked a really good young player when he came on and what a strike for his goal. Cliff, I fully understand what you’re saying regarding Beestin, but Butler will play him slightly off a main striker in a no 10 role to link play a bit. Beestin when played up top in pre season so far has been played in that way and Butler commented on it in a recent post match interview.
I wouldn’t play him as a main striker by any means but playing him a tad deeper linking up with The fish, Carlton or Whitehall, I think he’d do more than ok and has looked pretty good linking play up while playing as a striker so far.
Scales looks better at RWB than he did in CM. Yes, I know the teams have been lower quality, but he looks to have taken to the position really well. I don’t think we’ll really miss Butterfield all that much as Brogan looks good to score a fair few this season. Carlton looks sharp. Rowley looks really neat and tidy too in CM.
Looks promising.
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According to Butler on radio Humberside last night, the latest is –
Fitzsimons staying (at least Butler and Fitz haven’t been told otherwise).
Braithwaite, they like him and he’s got another trial game with us at the weekend.
Abraham, is a possibility but he has also has a trial game at Gainsborough.
Hunter, has a trial at an efl club and offer in Ireland so won’t be signing.
Burden, trials at other clubs and Gainsborough, Butler says they are helping him get another club.
Ferguson, enough cover in his position and no place for him since Nicholson signed so won’t be staying.3 users thanked author for this post.
TJO – well edited. With Burden & Abraham suspect we may be keeping our eye on them for the future
Also the consideration of a 3rd keeper.- Kian Johnson.
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Butler said it was to take the work load off the other two when it comes to mini games e.t.c. Campbell will be doing most of the other stuff that’s non first team but Fitz would also have to chip in which increases his chances of picking up an injury. Sounds like Butler wants to save him primarily for 1st team duties and have young Johnson to come in and work alongside Campbell to do the other stuff.
I suspect this may have something to do with Fitz only having a year left on his contract and if we don’t go up this season he may end up moving on.
IMO with so much talk re the budget and how tight things are to have 3 keepers in a 20 man NLN squad is just not necessary. Last season we only had one keeper for spells and when we did have 2 the second wasnt even on the subs bench.
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The justification for a 3rd keeper was mind boggling tbh, didn’t make much sense .
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Sounded to me like code for we are trying to offload Fitz but we haven’t told him yet and we don’t want to piss him off in case we can’t get someone to pick up the 2 grand a week.
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