Doesn't bother me signing players over 35 considering how young our squad was. Also the fitness of players nowadays and treatment of injuries has vastly improved. I think you can play until 40 with the right attitude (sadly they makes me retired!).

stafford wrote:

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I imagine the older players will be on deals to the end of the season. If they see us safe they will have done the job. If they have proved themselves good enough for another season at the end of this, that'll be good for them.

If I recall, we only get a fininte number of loan opportunities and I imagine we have used a good percentage of those already so those opportunities outside the transfer window would be limited. You are then looking at free agents.

Hopefully Barrie will have learnt from our previous indebtedness and Jody doesn't want his first appointment at this level to go tits up so there may be a bit of sparring over the budget but hopefully they will get it right on and off the pitch, get us through to the end of the season remaining in the Conference National and then look at it all again from a position of more stability.

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I agree with a fair bit of that. I think the manager in earlier interviews has alluded to the fact that we need some short term measures to help us stay up. This is in stark contrast to the Day method of recruiting hungry young players but what works for one manager doesn't necessarily work for another.

We have certainly beefed up the squad (which was badly needed) and will now have a bench with options on it which we haven't had for some time.

However it does smack a little bit of quantity over quality in my humble opinion.

I don't think we were far off even when Marsh and Beautyman went.

Corne was playing well in midfield but Jody has probably only seen him at right back, we probably needed a left back as Jefford has been injured, attacking centre midfielder and a proper "good enough" striker. We've lost Buchel but we can only play one keeper

Jody has brought in Zerafa (left back?) and Vose (who looks a Beautyman type of player - and good enough) , and now Jeffrey who could be the striker ( For years we've played strikers as wide men, its my bug bear) . The side we have now is very different to the one in December but it doesn't have to be. We now seem to have more left wingers than the labour party conference.

Jody has come in and chosen to make loads of changes, big, big gamble but he might just pull it off and if he does get them getting results, next season could be decent when he gets a whole summer to bring in who he wants.

Henly
Williams, Fyfield, Bush, Jefford
Corne, Gallagher, Fagan/Healy, Vose, (or Healy/Fagan, Zerafa, Harris, Ouani and probably a few others i've forgotten about)
Jeffrey, Vine

That's not too dissimilar than what we had before Day, Marsh and Beautyman went... Jeffrey could be very good and Vine is the old head with a touch of class we needed. Vose looks like he has an engine and is positive and can play through teams. (With all the other players coming in and playing) We do seem to have made a lot of changes we didn't need , but thats why Jody gets paid to manage. Me, i'd have kept what we had and filled in the gaps and have the new players not mentioned above as back up and off the bench, keeping the team spirit and continuity going.

So if you exclude the 3 players currently out on loan that means we currently have a squad of 23 players.

Even if you exclude Glen Little and Joseph Taylor that's still a squad of 21. And we still don't have a second goalkeeper registered.

Has the new manager chosen quantity and forsaken quality? 

Edit- Apologies I have left out the CM Kiassos  

An amazing 10 signings and maybe more to come! But to be quite honest I'd sacrifice every single one of them to get Roscoe Laffayte back! 

Welcome to Welling United  Karl Duguid and Anthony Jeffrey

We still have Carmichael for two more Saturdays. 

Chris wrote:

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So this is what I make our current squad. Have I missed anyone out?

1. GK Jon Henly

2.RB Barney Williams 

3.RB Loui Faz

4.RB Harry Osbourne (Currently on loan from Charlton)

5.CB Darren Purse

6.CB  Chris Bush

7.CB/LB Jamal Fyfield

8..CB/CM Zach Fagan

9.LB/LW Joseph Zerafa

10.LB Joseph Taylor

11.LB Ben Jefford

12.RW/LW  Malik Ouani (currently on loan to Walton Casuals)

13.RW  Karl Duguid

14.RW/LW  Malachi Hudson (currently on loan to Kingstonian)

15. CM Jake Gallagher

16. CM Sam Corne

17.CM Josh Carmichael (currently on loan from Bournemouth)

18.CM/LW Joe Healy

19.CM/LW Dominic Vose

20.RW/LW Glen Little

21. RW/LW Reece Harris

22. RW Artisdale Bassile (currently on loan from Bournemouth)

23.CF Charlie Penny  (currently on loan to Kingstonian)

24.CF Rowan Vine

25.CF Antony Jeffrey 

26. CF Kieron St.Amie

    

-- Edited by Chris on Wednesday 28th of January 2015 06:05:55 PM

-- Edited by Chris on Wednesday 28th of January 2015 06:08:31 PM

-- Edited by Chris on Wednesday 28th of January 2015 06:15:07 PM

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Osborne has gone back to Charlton

Taylor is on loan at East Grinstead