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Will Buckley - Rochdale

Chief Scout Kenneth Ryder is based in Manchester I believe so should be aware of this kid's ability.

Can also play right wing.

Your turn.

1: Simon Cox from WBA. I hear he's not bad.

John Fleck - Kiddy at Rangers, could be a star in League One before moving on to better things!

Realistically, Adam Le Fondre would be a decent start.

Adam Le Fondre, Cillian Sheridan, Brett Pitman, John Akinde, Byron Moore, Paul Benson, Jack Lester.

Akinde and Pitman are good shouts.

Trevor Benjamin - but he's just signed for Tamworth. What's Kyle Lightbourne or Shaun Close doing these days?

How about a sneaky bid for luke moore

andy bishop bury striker hes only 26 and has proven he can score goals

Tom Craddock at Luton.

Ditto

our scout should be earing his money watching young players at prem-championship clubs.if players are not available to buy ,then we should be looking at loaning a hungry, eager,talented kid

Just a word of warning.Le Fondre's move to Rotherham has fallen through due to "excessive"
wage demands.Andy Bishop is out injured for a couple of months and it's also believed that
his wages are over 3K per week at Bury.If we wanted to sign either one,they and their agents
would be looking for a significant pay increase.

Brett Pitman is a more realistic one i believe,as he's southern based and i think we'd be seen
as a good move for him.Time to test the water Danny.

Pardew is a big fan of Tom Craddock and there are rumours of a bid from Saints.

Dave Mooney on loan from Reading

Unfortunately,just like HRK and Simon Church there is no chance with Mooney, as he's on the
bench for Reading and has done very well for them in pre-season.

Reading played at home vs forest yesterday with 1 up front which was Church, they also have Shane Long and Noel Hunt and they want Dave Kitson back on loan if Stoke manage to sign Dave Nugent, they will let either Church or Mooney out on loan IF they can get Kitson!

Angelo Balanta on loan from QPR. Scored 3 goals in 11 for Wycombe last year, Highly rated by QPR.

Again,Gazza he's featuring in their 1st team.It's really annoying whether it's Dave Mooney or Balanta,but they've made the breakthrough to 1st team level.They are also on a fair whack wage wise as well.

arild sundgot  :)

or http://www.soccerway.com/players/lars-lafton/29251/

Gary Stanley.

Seriously Le Fondre or Paul Heffernan? Is he not in Donnys team anymore?

anyone apart from Lee Trundle

John Akinde is an excellent shout
Grant Holt from Shrewsbury?
Robbie Blake on loan from Burnley? Surely he wont feature much in Prem?
Hayes from Scunthorpe?

Holt signed for Norwich three weeks ago Fatters. Didn't do them much good :D

grant holt went to norwich for half a million didn't he fatters?

ohhhh jinx!!

Wilson's pursuit of Trundle, suggests to me that he has completely lost the plot.

I think it happens,when you identify players you want, but then can't close the deal because of the constraints in the background...you end up having to take a desperate punt.

I just hope someone like Soton nip in with a better offer....Pardew has a decent record of signing dross.

had no idea Holt went to Norwich ....

that slipped under my radar somewhat!

would it be unrealistic to sign that bloke Jackson from Gills?

We should try and get Reuben Reid from west brom on loan for the season to help his development, surely hes just going to play reserve team football and warm the bench up there.

I'm not sure anyone has an idea of what we're trying to do any more...in the close season we were supposed to be paying 250K for OTJ and Robinson, then we're looking at fellas rejected by Crawley Town, unknown Afroslavs and lads from Hungerford.

Would it be fair to say that all this combined with our worst ever opening day defeat, suggests all is not well behind the scenes?

didnt 100k of the transfer kitty go on Cuthbert?

plus werent their conflicting reports on whether we paid for O'Brien as well

Simon Church - Reading

He's just been included in the squad for Wales friendly against Montenegro along with Owain Tudor-Jones.

Church sounds like a great talent from what some are saying on here and is most definitely worth a punt. Good goalscorer.

I don't thing they were conflicting, Fitton said on the radio along the lines of "just because he was released doesn't mean money didn't change hands to make that happen". Ok I'm paraphrasing but sounded to me there was definitely some fee involved.

I still don't think this squad is as bad as it showed Saturday. Just not as good as I hoped and paper thin.
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Church started for Reading against Forest on Saturday though, I doubt he'd be available- same with quite a few suggestions.

we tried for Church and got shot down.

Yep never had a prayer....

He wont play sundays

We'd never get anyone like hymn.

We'll have to alter our targets.

Ill get mi coat.

If I had known that these puns were coming - I wouldn't of bothered.

Here's one then - what about Paul Dickov!!

Off you go boys and girls!!

don't you mean "Aisle get mi coat" ?

Church could have been the "Pew Pew" in our Trumpton song to go with Cuthbert.

liverpool are looking at church so a link with us is laughable

Danny Webber??

Its a great shame we didn't get Charlie Mulgrew...then we could have had a song for our defence...Poo, Poo, Charlie Mulgrew, Cuthbert, Drivel and Crud

hahaha.made i laugh reggie

hahahahahahahaha! Very good Reg

Jermaine Defoe?

Per 'apse' you're right.

Sorry thats very obscure.

Should have went for Lisbie,hes good at this level..

i'm definitely a fan of tom craddock at luton

Lisbie went back to an old club, and has a generally poor scoring ratio.  The he's not good enough for us brigade would have had the full band out had we signed him.

christ dv would have a heart attack if we signed lisbie, fucking useless scoring record, a bit like cox and parkin, they were both wankers too.

Paynters strike record aint exactly all that either.

I don't think we should sign Paynter, let him stay at Orient.

:D

fuck it....leon knight :hide:

I see that the Dongs have signed Michael Bridges on a non-contract basis.

Now I know he might not be the best striker in the world, and he is getting on in years (or so it seems), but surely he had to be better than our second choice striker ;)

Tresor Kandol?

But he's on a non-contract basis, I'm assuming that means pay-as-you play and trying to earn a contract.
On that basis we could have got him in for a few weeks, at least we would have had two strikers to pick from.

Anyway, it's no good now as he's not available.

Have to say that I would have thought that we might do the same with one of the guys we had in on trial (although TBF I didn't go to any of the pre-season games so I don't know how bad they were).

Give them a short term contract, (month or so) to give them a chance to prove themselves, whilst at least it would have given us some options.

I can only assume that both AF & DW thought that they would have had something sorted by now otherwise.

I'm really confused on what the hold up is getting a striker unless we only get a loan, surely you make an offer it get's accepted you talk to the player agree terms or move on to your next target and start the process again

Still time yet, but the striker hunt is beginning to look like a massive let down.

Only 15 working days until the window closes...

The hold up is when everyone they go for looks like they're going to sign and then it falls through at the last minute, so they have to start again. If they'd have got their first choices it would have been done and dusted a month ago.

I've read through this thread and think the best suggestion has to be looking at Craddock from Luton.  Anyone else supposed to be interested in him?

Southampton and Huddersfield

Ah I see, might be tricky then.

I was joking. They just seem to sign everyone else

Burys Andy Bishop

Southampton are interested in Craddock

DW has said he might wait until after the Premiership games kick off before bringing anyone in.

What happened with the triallist strikers? Surely Yan the man would have signed for a Pittance hapeney? Would be better than playing Scotch Mist up front with Big Billy surely?

Fucking hell he is taking the piss now. He will be waiting for the world cup in the next interview

Loan window is still open in after August isn't it? That will be the next deadline once the transfer deadline slips away.

There has to be someone semi-decent we can sign surely? Trundle has been mentioned but he must be an expensive striker, I'm sure the money could be put to better use.

Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?

Sorry Reg we can't all be as hopefull as you.

I think we'll look back on Saturday as some sort of turning point...we'll be in the Prem in 3 seasons time.

The Blue Square Prem?

Great movie quote!!!

free transfer market and loans dont end till mid november

doesnt matter when it ends, we've still had more than enough time up untill now.

i never said anything about how much time we have had. someone asked when it ends and i told them. read before you comment

I know that but surely my point still stands?

yeah it does  :D

i think we should of had a striker lined up well before cox was gone

We did Robinson....just neglected the bit about getting him to sign before announcing it, which at the time seemed like an incredibly naive thing to do...and so it's proved.

yeah but even so i think maybe we should of had a backup plan if robinson didnt sign. is wilson going to panic buy now because i cant see anyone coming in now that might already have a scoring record

The interest in Trundle suggests the p button has been pressed..

if we were going to panic sign a striker wouldnt we have signed him by now.

doesnt look like we will even get a panic signing!

i thought our bid had been rejected and we have moved on?

Barnet's John O'Flynn please.  Irish U21 and he had a storming first season last year and while it's a punt (no punt intended, arf) he looks quite a solid prospect.

Plus he looks like a right Herbert.

Surely it's worth testing Bornmuff's resolve with a cheeky £150,000 bid for Pitman. Big lad, young and a good scoring record over the last season or two. I'm going to keep banging on about him until we sign someone!

The point was that will be the next line the club tow if we don't get anyone in.

Got some potential loan signings lined up but these things take time to get the right player on the right deal, blah blah blah.

I reckon we'll sign Jamie Slabber by the end of the month anyway. Yaaaaay \:)/

tommy smith doesn't fit into watfords wage structure apparently so lets get him here on loan....or break the bank with a £2mill bid?!

Leon Mckenzie

Kermit Erasmus

Wouldnt get a work permit.... and christ I've tried on a number of occasions...

 :D

Good call (and quite accurate).  Great name, we need more players with great names.  I'm glad we got rid of Simon Cox (very dull name), is Frank Awanka still playing?

Apaprently, according to some website I found, these are the top 25 (decided by whom?) amusingly named footballers

Stefan Kuntz
Chiqui Arce
Bongo Christ
Have-a-Look Dube
Ars Bandeet
Segar Bastard
Rafael Scheidt
Rod Fanni
Johnny Moustache
David Goodwillie
Danny Shittu
Johan de Cock
Milan Fukal
Quim
Brian Pinas
Bernt Haas
Uwe Fuchs
Two-Boys Gladstone Gamede
Wolfgang Wolf
Creedence Clearwater Couto
Norman Conquest
Danger Fourpence
Paul Dickov
Argelico Fucks
Harry Daft

Wolfgang Wolf used to manage Wolfsburg.

Oh, and Danger Fourpence!  Love it.

There was a Gerry Slagboom in Holland, I liked that name.

The word Slagroom in Dutch translates as whipped cream.

Gerry Whippedcream, sounds like he'd be friends with Ashley Cole.

Having just re-read that list, surely Ars Bandeet is made up?

You'd think so, but the legend goes that he was an Algerian international. So maybe the Algerians have a sense of humour. I dunno, I've never met an Algerian.

http://www.midfielddynamo.com/players/players_bestnames.htm

Good to see Danny Invincible making that list... I remember it took me ages to convince my then girlfriend (now wife) that I hadnt just made him up.

Oh and I see Peter Shirtliff is on there as well!

Apparently we are looking at osmeone from the Premier and Championship (Trundle ?) in time for Sat

Are we sure Trundle is gonna be the Championship player? I was kinda still hoping/dreaming that it would be Billy Sharp.... although I saw that a 'Sharp' scored last night for Sheff Utd, so I imagine thats him and would suggest he's still in the reckoning there.

Tough to say. Established strikers that are available for transfer are hardly ten a penny. I'd like to have taken a punt on Michael Bridges who cropped up at Franchise and obviously there's a place in my heart for SSP but wages and 'saleability' would probably have put the kaibosh on those two.

Gills are after Charlton striker Chris Dickson. A nippy, handful of a striker and current Ghana international. Still a youngster too so certainly fits the bill.

liam feeney was lightening fast for bournemouth last night.

Looked as though Bignall had a great game for Reading last night. Mentally fast from the look of it. I think we should get him on loan if possible.

So have we signed that Paynter bloke from Orient? I see he did ok last night

Nah, he is signing for Aberdeen

Tom Craddock from Luton would be a good signing.

He's already on the list dickhead :)

3 or 4 times on the list i see.

Maybe if we keep mentioning a certain striker we'll get hold of him.

Billy Paynter.

I cant believe he hasn't been snapped up yet.

He signed for Luton knowing full well they were going into the Blue Square Prem... Maybe he's just happy there.

Hes one of those players you can see playing either championship football or premiership football in years to come.He would be a great investment for the club if fitton and wlson were looking for one.

I don't understand why he decided to go from Middlesbrough to Luton... Eurgh, two horrible places.

During the live game on Friday, one of the commentators said that a presenter on one of the property programmes (Location, Location I think) said words to the effect of "Middlebrough is the biggest shit hole in the country, no one would ever move there by choice". Someone (the council I guess) complained to Ofcom that the comment was unfair and inaccurate, Ofcom ruled in favour of the programme.

Why would you complain about something like that? It just draws attention to it and then pretty much makes the comment gospel when you lose.

When I first moved up to the North East me and the missus went to see Middlesbrough vs. Chelsea at the Riverside.

It was just after something was released stating that Middlesbrough was one of the worst places to live in England.

Chelsea fans took advantage of this by chanting something along the lines of "worst city in England" and this one Boro fan stood up and screamed angrily "It's a Borough not a fucking City" much to the amusement of all who witnessed it.

Ha, that made oi larf! Although, it's no different from the Adver doing banner headlines every time some Z-list celeb has a pop at Swindon (Dom Jolly, that bloody Ginger woman, some metrosexual git in the Mail etc etc)

billy sharp is being linked with a loan move to Franchise

In light of Paynter's hamstring injury who do we think we can get in on loan asap?

Wilson is probably chasing the two clubs he put enquiries to now, rather than waiting for them to respond, but given that we've missed out on several targets now it may not be enough.

Sam Vokes from Wolves would be nice..

where on does it say paynter has a hamstring problem i need a link

He played today (quite well), so I don' think you need to worry.

Still nobody in to replace the injured Paynter. 12 days and counting.

With Fitton being on holiday for 2 weeks now I can't see anything happening until the back end of August as he seems to like to be part of all the negotiations etc

I'd imagine he was contactable, and there are only 11 days left in August.

12 including today!

But didn't the manager thing drag on because he was away on business last season, I just get the impression nothing much happens when he's away as he likes to be very hands on with negotiations etc.

Ok, to spell it out then. If he's on two weeks holiday, there won't be enough time for any negotiations before the end of August ( 11 and a half  days time) unless he's prepared to be contacted on holiday. Away on business isn't the same as away on holiday. That's all I was trying to say.

In that case then it will have to be loan signings!

I'm surprised nobody has signed Bishop from Bury yet, he is always near the top of the scoring charts. He might be costly though.

He went straight after the MK game so that'd given him a couple of days when he's back before the window to check over any potential deal, I just think any signing will go down to wire. I'm sure he'll allow people at the club to negotiate for him but he seems to like checking and signing anything himself, so it wouldn't suprise me if we have a busy bank holiday weekend.

How many players did we sign on deadline last season?

Oooh, it was 3 (Three) wasn't it?  2 (Two) of which have turned out to be blinders..... Am I right or am I right?

Ho hum...

You're actually wrong. It was the season before last.

Oh

Won't be so cocky next time hopefully! ;)

I think your point does stand but we also had Peacock, Sturrock, Joyce and an injured Barry Corr as fail safe options. Something will undoubtedly happen but it's a bit uncomfortable if it goes a bit wrong at the last minute as there is not much room to manoeuvre.

Maybe I will stop being a negative nancy by the month end.