THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

you can look back in our entire history and i don't think you'll find many signings with the same profile of young age, ability to make an immediate impact and future potential to be worth a significant amount of money as healey and boateng.

reeves and poole should be very good players in this division and dickenson is interesting. we've not seen mason and bowery looks fine for what he is, which is a backup.

i'm tired of the idea that we should just be racing up to the championship as fast as we can and think about what we're going to do when we get there later. it went so well last time.

tisdale has his faults but i think he's done a considerable amount over the past couple of years to set this club up to be on a sustainable upwards curve, even if we don't shoot straight up into another promotion race this season.

I think that is far too harsh on Dickenson and Mason at this stage. Bowery cannot replace Aneke, but that is harsh on him as no player in L1 can. Walker barely counts - a very low cost third keeper retainer set-up that covers us in emergencies with no harm that I can see.

So that is one negative (Bowery for Aneke) out of eight ins, as far as I am concerned (I am also more positive than you on Poole and certainly dont see him as a "luxury"). Plus our top scorer re-signed.

Still managed to score 15 goals so far this season. Id argue attacking threat might not be the issue so far this season. If we can get the defensive side settled and key players back we will be fine in achieving a reasonable objective for a promoted side enduring a turbulent few years in consolidating and avoiding an immediate return to league 2.

Also regarding the loan system. Smart move by tis not panicking and signing more. Our squad is plenty big enough, we've done plenty of business. Need to let this did settle and gauge where we are come January and respond to that with transfer activity. Saving some in the kitty I assume, letting this squad find its feet and develop and giving us wiggle room to assess any changes we need to make in January is smart and brave.

Weve got some good young players, makes sense not to starve their route to first team football by throwing money at other teams youngsters.

The bipolar bedwetters will be over excited again when we beat afc. Then quickly forgotten like the epic win against Lincoln, the team many get a hard on for here.

Seriously, read my entire post next time. I said aren't good enough or weren't needed.

Did we need Mason, a player who has barely played in the last few seasons, or Dickenson for that matter? No we needed a substantial replacement for Aneke (maybe not as good as Aneke, but at least someone with goals in them - that should have been the priority). Dickenson is also just a luxury player. If we had brought in an Aneke replacement, in addition to Healey and another decent attacking mid, then we could start looking at the likes of Dickenson, Mason and Bowery.

So it's not complete bollocks, in fact it's not any level of bollocks.

Even the statement weren’t needed is complete bollocks as you don’t actually know what they offer as both have been laid up so far.

If something can click with a different style we may be ok, we may not but we can’t write him off having not kicked a ball in competitive action, it’s bollocks.

By all accounts Dickenson showed some decent delivery last night. Would certainly say that is needed and would imagine that’s definitely good enough.

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This with bells on. Really nice to her to read such a balanced and realistic post Rosie.
As regards Dickenson. Well I would suggest people wait and see before talking him down. If he performs like he did when playing against us last season there will be a few people eating their words come next May.
If you think we have no need of a left sided player athletic enough to get up and down the pitch then "luxury signing" might be appropriate. Otherwise ....

Don’t understand how Dickenson isn’t needed when this forum has cried out for a fast Lewington replacement.

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Hey Alby. This really is going to have to stop. These days we seem to do nothing but agree.

Okay I’ll make fake opinions so we can disagree

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