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As read in the repetative Adver, Wilson is eyeing up two potential signings but who do we think they are?

Billy Sharp's name has been banded around for a bit but somebody out there must know something of who these potential may be??

The rumour mill has been a bit quiet lately, so come on and put your thoughts down to help get us all through this boring Wednesday!!

Link pls

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/4528924.Hitmen_on_the_way_/

I think we'll sign one of the triallists.

yes i think so too but aren't these two new players which Danny is refering too contracted to other clubs? that means if he signs a trialist + 2 mentioned we'll have 5/6 strikers

I've still got the feeling Wilson will land us a bit f a surprise - Douglas was a pleasant surprise as an acquisition for our midfield and I think something akin to that will happen up front.

What is worrying is that if it doesn't come off then we could be a bit stuffed. Hopefully the loan signing(s) are a bit more assured.

who you got in mind then si?

Just read a rumour thar Billy Sharp is being eyed up by Stoke and Coventry.

It's just a rumour!! I think Stoke is oput of the question for him.

i believe so too. he's done exceptionally well so far with the signings he's made and believe it's a good thing he's waiting on quality rather than signing any old striker just to please the fans.

I do believe if perminant deals don't come around by the end of Aug then we'll dip into the loan market and i'm sure DW has a few names ready to bring down just incase

Both playing at bigger clubs at a higher level according to DW. One permanent transfer and one loan....sounds promising.

Dunno, it's a surprise ;)

awsome, cant wait

a friend of mine delivers to the madejski stadium he supported reading for years and says he saw AF down there 2 days ago could simon church be on his way? or radoslav vasilev? there the only 2 strikers that i can see that are available to us

I suspect that Reading would be quit keen on sending us a striker on loan..............

Could be anything....there's a hotel in the Madejski, Fitton might have been on business.

I hear Simon Church is definitely going out on loan this season, he might be at a bigger club but very inexperienced for the hustle/bustle of Division One life.
Saying that on the occasion I saw him play he was outstanding.
Hope it is Simon Church.

Or even been to the shops.

8 goals in 12 Wales U-21 games and with quite a good track record for a player of his age. I think it's worth a gamble. Cox was and look what happened there!!

i agree

We all would like to see Town up to the Championship next season and if the same occurs with Church as what happened with Cox then we won't be saying bye to him. He will be here next season also so fingers crossed he'll team up with BP and stick a few in the net!!

Take the gamble DW.

well i hope if it is him then he can score atleast 10-15 a season i think if we get anyone on loan it will be a premiership striker. maybe church could be signed on a permenent basis

Perhaps he was delivering their 40% Cox cut ... ouch!

With the transfer embargo at Palace maybe we might have a chance on signing Jon Obika on loan from Spurs possibly?

Although I understand he would prefer to stay in London and at a Championship level club given the chance.

Looks like Beckfords a no no :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/leeds_united/8185572.stm

saw that. Nice partner for Coxy there. His height and Coxy's finishing. Not bad on paper.

Or as the partner to Ruben Reid rather than Cox?

That's a lot of strikers they've bought now: Beckford, Reid, Cox, Luke Moore, Ishmael Miller, Craig Beattie and Roman Bednar (although there are the obvious question marks over Bednar)

Di Matteo got a bit of a striker fetish?

Cox back on loan ;)

maybe in january if all doesnt go well and were in the promotion race....stranger things have happened

Can't see Leeds selling him this close to the start of the season

It'll depend if Beckford wants to go.Grayson is very level headed and if he feels that Beckford
will be very disruptive if he's told to stay,then he'll sell him.Club,team,dressing room come first.

Leeds said during the week that they are ready to leave him go for free at the end of this season as he is out of contract.

If WBA are proposing £2million, they would be stupid not to take it. The flip side though is that with Delph going to Villa, would they be willing to let go another top player??

Theyll probably get Billy Sharp now.

DIRTY LEEDS!!

Sounds feasible.

One of the numpties on thisisswindontownfc says there is a press conference at 4pm today according to BBC Wiltshire Radio. Anyone else heard this, or is it a load of bollocks?

Thats to announce darren byfield as a signing.  According to thisis is numpties.

considering it's 4:20pm and noone has heard anything i'd say it's bollox

I think they are trying to keep themselves entertained while we all wait for a striker.

That or we have been gazzumpedersfielded.

I was told it was to announce the signing of Mark Viduka  ;) - still on the PFA free transfer list.... someone should throw that bone to the thisis crowd.

The advent of new font...seems to have pushed thisis into an even greater maelstrom of foaming mouthed, mongdom than usual.

Probably to confirm the departure of paynter

sonic youth are you on a wind up on thisis?

I did wonder about that myself...SY seems too grown up nowadays for this sort of thing though.

i texted it to RS on the way home from the game on saturday, i never expected it to catch on. i haven't been online all day, so nowt to do with me. the norwegian is awful, definitely nothing to do with me!

Press conference tomorrow.

Expected to be an announcement on a new keeper signing for us. Maybe a striker too but I suspect he's no better that what we already have.

We're signing Paynter from Orient.

For £250,000

Yeah, that's why heard. Not too bad considering he's got a fair bit left on his contract. Orient make a tidy profit and we get a striker, who, whilst not prolific at this level, has been fairly steady. Everybody wins.

What the source on potential press conference tomorrow?

i feel guilty now, i only texted the "rumour" to BS as a personal injoke, now it's caused all kinds of silliness.

i hate the internet  :-[

And I find it very unlikely it would be a keeper having just signed one...

We don't announce signings by press conference do we.

It just comes up on the official site as being done.

sonic you are ruining the fun!

I have no sauce.

Lucas back on loan maybe?

oops :(

Ok I'll admit it, I'm confused. Which rumour did Sonic start and is the press conference related BS or fact?

the one about a lillestrøm striker joining.

Oh, right.

Is he?

:)

And this is on FF, about the Norski:


Indeed, we ALL say that the mongs are on thisis.

Pffft, wind ups are much more fun that talking about who we could be signing.

If we can't have a wind up ... can we have a Windass?

In this mornings Guardian (Thursday), there is a League One preview and our star man to watch out for this season... Lloyd Macklin.

Good luck to him! I rate him as an 18 yea old but has no proven record. Where does the Guardian get it from hey!!

Also says that we will finish mid table. Not happy with that

How dare we improve on last season

I'm sure they had Sean Morrison as our man to watch last season, so they must know something about our youff set up.

I'm glad most opinions in the media predict a mid table/bottom half finish.... no great expectations myself but I reckon we could surprise a few people.... (by going down... arf arf arf...)

like the comment!!

When I heard it on the radio I did immediately think of you :D

I'd prefer it if the Guardian or whichever publication had us down for relegation fodder when the opposite became true.

A bit like the season Kamara said we'd go down from this division but we ended up doing pretty well.

Yes, reverse psychology!! Note for DW - DO NOT MENTION PLAYOFFS OR PROMOTION!!

Well if they want to say we'll do well and we do well that would be just as good. I think what I'm trying to say is that I'm not overly fussed what the media reckons of our chances.

Another person said it was nice that it was mentioned we were one of six ex-Prem teams in this division this season. I don't really know what's nice about that.

Anyway, sign strikers and goal machines. Grrrrrr.

anyone we sign wont play saturday anyway will he. Dont care if its boring it is a fucking joke how this has ended up

I'm in agreement DRS. I'm especially concerned that we'll get to the last week of August, not sign anyone better than what we've already got and then sign players that will do a decent job, thus we've missed out on having a full strength squad for a month and not have the wonder striker we're after.

If such a gamble pays off it may be worth it though. It seems strange we have absolutely no new strikers in yet though.

I'm available, a bit (lot) of Ronaldoesque liposuction and I'll be as good as ready. I have a goal a game record at professional football grounds.

I'll await the phone call on August 31st.

Instead of the "Season Opener" it should be called "Bring your Boots Saturday!!"

Plan B in case new striker is not here by Saturday (can also be used if new striker arrives and is called Trundle):

When Town are kicking towards the goal in front of our supporters, if or when the ball gets near the penalty area everybody should suck really hard and vacuum the ball into the net. Can also be used defensively when the opposition are attacking, but please remember to blow in this situation.

With grateful acknowledgements to Coca Cola. 

 
Oh no! Bollocks! SkySports have predicted us a 7th place finish this year....

Expectations, rising....

I would rather wait for a decent player, than get one now who is about the same level as Blair Sturrock. Has he not signed for Plymuff yet btw?

Agreed.

I think hes on trial currently at Torquay...so as close as he can get to Plymuff geographically.

How long can you wait though before you accept you are not going to get somebody of the standard you were after and you have to make do?

It is ridiculous that no centre forward has signed yet, and i'm not sure now if expect those that do sign to be a massive let down after all this talk of waiting for the right players or if they will be genuinely worth the wait. I sort of think the former.

From what I have heard from DW he is looking for strikers of the same calibre as the other signins we've made.
He appears to have one loan & a permanent lined up from a championship club & a premiership club. I assume the loan is from the premiership.
I also assume that those clubs will only be willing to release players of the right calibre if they have no injuries to worry about. I therefore deduce that the players are of sufficient quality to act as some sort of realistic cover for their current club. (eg. We wouldn't let the likes of Macklin go out on loan until we were sure that we wouldn't need him, but when we sign these two then we would probably consider it) (Same thing applys to Chump & Premiersh!te clubs)
Anyway, if we have the likes of Jimmy Davis, Simon Cox, Sam Parkin, etc  lined up, I would say its worth waiting for.
I also think that as our first game is away, playing one up front wouldn't be a total disaster any way. In fact we may well be playing that way this season away from home with the midfield backing them up.
So to sum up, no panic yet.

i'd rather not sign anyone than sign someone to shut the fans up and then sit on the wage bill doing fuck all.

The season last a long time. Waiting for the right player is no problem, particularly if he only misses the opening away fixture. We also have a centre forward who can do a job. (BP)

Seconded.  There is still time.

thirded?..... we had that with Arrieta n the other shite that came in with him

The season may last a long time but unfortunately the transfer window does not and that is my main concern. This isn't a dig as I'm sure we'll get some one but we don't have that much time left to get things sorted, 24 days and counting...

I'd assume we have a list of targets. Is the deal taking time because of contractual (pay) issues or due to the transfer?

I seem to remember the Cox deal taking a bit longer than expected to iron out. I hope it is that sort of situation because if we're holding out for other reasons (money) then we're probably not going to get our man.

Well, if we're being pedantic then technically the closest he can geographically be to Plymouth is Plymouth :)

Things may start moving faster after this weekend, players that are not in the team for the first game may actually realise they need to get out on loan or get themselves a move elsewhere.

I must admit that I'm surprised at how slow things are moving, I expected at least 1 more striker in quite quickly with 2 more to follow before the end of Aug.

There's still other postions that DW wants to fill as well.

surely the closest he could be to plymouth would be whatever the smallest measurement outside of plymouth is(i.e a nanometer,or whatever is smaller than that). You can't be close to somewhere if your there,can you? If you can then i recon the world will spontaneously combust whenever casal gets a first team game.

michael mifsud could be a potential striker to get. hes still without a club and could be prolific in this league even thought it might take a big wage to get him here. hes quick so would work well with BP

Back off to Malta last I'd heard despite interest from Leeds, which is an odd move but I think possibly sums the little git up to atee.

Great player mind.