Thetownend.com

"The deadline for loans comes around this Thursday at 12pm and I am hoping to bring one, two or possibly even three players in before then."

from sturrock's update.

i'd guess we're looking at a central midfielder, right winger and a striker.

it'd also indicate that sturrock jr isn't one of the players if it's a loan deal...

Should be good would be quality to go to Saturdays game with Bury with 2 or 3 new players boosting the squad.

Interesting read that theres been alot of enquiries for our players as well, would be good to see which players and which clubs were interested hopefully no dwarfs and there paedo sugar daddys from Leeds sniffing around  :x

I think you could try to loan Paweł Abbot from Huddersfield...He is striker a taget- man...but probabl we are looking for a 'goal machine'  :soapy tit wank:

That would be interesting.......... our centre back Jerel Ifil got sent off for headbutting him a couple of seasons ago

I like Pavel Abbott tho .. top striker .. Im Loving Sturrock's updates .. ive never known so much about what is going on .. Long may it continue  :mrgreen:

I wonder what players attracted interest from other clubs ?

Maybe    

Jutskiewicz  (as one for the future)
Ifil                 (doing well this season)
Jack Smith    (Consistent performer)
Evo           ?????

brezovan?
weston?
evans?
roberts?

I was thinking Peacock may of attracted some interest as people know that Sturrock released him before so they were testing the waters to see if he would consider letting him go.  Also Ifil and Weston are probably the 2 could most likely see clubs being interested in.

Vincent?
Williams?
Nicholas?
Brown?
Caton?

Oh yes.





Peacock?

ifil to leeds untill january when they will sign him for a six figure fee.

Rubbish.
Ifil has been at Swindon 3 seasons (I Think)
Wise was there for 15 games. Would Ifil jump ship to join him? and with us possibly being in the same league I cant see it happening.
If you said someone like Weston it would be mpre believeable.

more money at leeds though

A six-figure fee for Ifil?! :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Exactly.... seven figures at least  8)

£10,000.99

To be fair Ifil has improved a lot, but talk of a 6 figure fee is a as fanciful as him being ready for Championship football.

ANY of our players in the Championship? :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Maybe Sturrock will get Flitcroft in on loan from Bury as short-term cover for Evans.

Let's think: the following replies will be -

No thanks
He's too fucking old
He's crap
He's too old
He's slow
If Bury don't want him, why would we?

Maybe he is all of those things. I don't have first hand knowledge of every frigging player in the league like some people seem to think they have. I just thought I would throw his name in there.

bury have just released him i think 8)

and he is old.

I'm going to go with.....

He won't want to commute from the north of England.

 :wink:

Flitcroft has signed for Hyde United anyway.

Just as good.

I think you'll find the only Ifil going to Leeds is Paul

Hopefully a few coming in today - still think Lloyd Sam may be on the cards

even though his wages can choke a horse?  which must mean he is paid in 4kg sugar cubes.

Yeah I know, but hopefully we'll be the only (or the best) club in for him and Charlton may see that first team footie is better than nothing and stump up some of the wages

was listening to the post match interview with Paul Sturrock on BBC Swindon and when Roberts was mentioned Sturrock described him as "a bit lazy in the first half but scored 2 good goals."

It's good to know the new manager has figured him out early. Sturrock is definitely the right man to get us promoted. :old:

Gary Lineker hardly worked his socks off for the teams he played for.  if Roberts continues his scoring ratio, and has those moments of inspiration in a game, then a team will carry that sort of player because goals win games.

Spot on Rob, Robbo is only a liability when he's not scoring. At this level providing his heads right he's a good player, more than capable of performing at this level IMHO.  If he's not prolific, which I don't necessarily think he needs to be, he has to work hard, but at the moment he's scoring, he's swaggering and that enough to let him off being lazy for me.  A fit Christian Roberts who worked hard and scored goals frequently would be frankly too good for us.

Judging by Stymes' comments on the official site, they're struggling to get men in.

looks that way ... i dare say we wont pay out any kind of a wage

The other advantage of that is, like the Carlisle game, he was shit for a lot of it and very lazy. The defense also got lazy as a result, meaning when he did burst into action he was ace.

This is the most paranoid post I have ever seen.

Well, it's a few hours before deadline... Fingers crossed that Sturrock can bring in a couple of players that can make a difference in the team.

 :thumbs:

I hope so - I'm getting a little anxious now that its Thursday, the last day before the cut off.
 :?

Yes... We do need a couple of extra options... If this current scenario happened under Dennis Wise then I would have thought he'd be preparing to play - but alas...

I'm sure he'll get someone from Wednesday!

So when is the deadline?   5 pm?   midnight?

midnight

Think it is Midday actually.

I thought it was midday aswell.

OK I was wrong, its 5pm today!

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_1703971,00.html

Anyone want to clarify?

see my post above - editted

Lovey stuff....  

Don't know where I read midday.

If Paul Sturrock wants any recommendations on players, he knows my number.  

Theres a unnamed striker playing for a struggling league 1 club in london I rate in the £500k bracket. In fact I'd say he was better than Bobby Zamora.

he won't be back, Sturrock doesn't rate him (as good as said so in the adver a couple of weeks ago), hence the loan to Brentford

football is a game to be enjoyed but winning IS everything

I think Colin meant Gary Alexander.

What a signing that would be.

Read it on Paul Sturrocks update on the fishal site

Also mentioned in the adver

yep... Sturrock's update would be it.

I believe EVERYTHING said in that... So it's true!  :mrgreen:

11:40 and still no action. Shit.

I know a good scandinavian left back thats available

only 12 minutes to go then it seems!!!
Everywhere seems to suggest different timescales but it appears it is actually 12 midday after all!!

11 minutes now AHHHH!!!!!

http://www.swindon.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=39056

 :?  :(

looks like we will have to do with what weve got then

The transfer window is now closed for permanent signings, and will reopen on 1 January 2007.
In the Football League, loan deals are permitted between Friday, 8 September and Thursday, 23 November at 1700 GMT.

However, in exceptional circumstances, clubs can apply for special dispensation to the Premier League or Football League outside these times - for instance, if they had no goalkeepers available.

The transfer window does not apply to clubs below Conference National level.

 :king:

phew another 5 hours then ??

1700 GMT!!!!!!!!

So they have til 5pm after all????

All this confusion is getting to me! its open til 1700GMT then???   :?

Perhaps the deals have to be finalised by midday for the FL to grant approval before the 5pm deadline?

Lets hope PS can pull something out the bag then

Maybe deal are already done and we are simply waiting on the details to be released??

ever the optimist me!  :D

5pm deadline so a few hours yet.

Should get one player surely? A new right winger please.

 
 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick?

I don't get it...

me neither  :?

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

 :|

We're supposed to be siging 3 players, but so far it seems like Sturrock has been chasing his tail a bit (not literally).

Hope we don't miss out completely or we may struggle during the close of the transfer window......

Monkey and CCP out on 1 month deals, suggests two players coming in.

Who did they go on loan to?

Monkey to Hartlepool, CCP to Grays. Kingy didn't fuck about did he?!?!?!

Really???? Quite suprising .. they are 2 players I rate highly .. maybe not so surprising then :(

i guess monkhouse is a winger and we have brown and zaaboub. platt is gonna find it hard to get into the side with the back 4 and vincent ahead of him plus zaaboub is a left back anyway really.

maybe it will be a right winger coming in ?

source?

There's nothing on the official site yet.

Surprised by the Monkey loan. But I guess we have Brown and Zabooooooob on the left (as well as vincent, nicho) so not a big issue.

CCP has hardly been seen this season. Thought he was injured so surprised from that point of view.

jayohaitchenn: Club text message thingy apparently. It'll be on the site soon no doubt

Official text

Monky is reported as being signed on loan via the Hartlepool website

hehe, you're a real fan!

Let us know if we get any players in

Will do  :D

Feel sorry for Monky, how he warrant a loan out ahead of Brown really surpirses me.  Hopefully CCP will get some fitness as he's a good prospect IMO, and at centreback we are not overly blessed with cover, especially given Ifil's profensity to get sent off.

Cannot believe Monky has gone... Me thinks fitness perhaps? Maybe he wants a move back North?

CCP to Grays. King didn't hang about!

But it's a good move for CCP.

I refer you to my previous post:



 8)

Don't like the idea of loaning out players to teams in the same div, although I back PS 100%.

Sorry, I tend to skip your posts  :P

monkey is rather poo.and ccp will ever only be a squad player.i think sturrock deffo knows what he's doing

Sturrocks latest update is now up and explains all!

It's been said many, many times... Paul Sturrock's updates are awesome. Immediate explainations are the way forward.

Kudos.

Double Post.

Sounds like a player coming in is defo a midfielder - Sturrock says that he wants to bring someone else in aside from a midfielder. Suggests one player is in the bag

Monkey is very bad at keeping shape ... drifts too much ... and is prone to injury. Can see the logic.

what does it say on the official site?

I cant get on their at work cause of the stupid IT guys!

Can someone post the latest knowledge please?

"Andy Monkhouse has gone to Hartlepool United and Charlie Comyn-Platt has gone to Grays Athletic for a month's loan each. Looking at the reserve team fixtures we don't have a lot of regular fixtures and both players could benefit from playing regular, competitive games in my opinion. Andy has been out for four weeks with his hamstring injury and looked as though he had been out. Sofiene Zaaboub and Aaron Brown have done ok on the left hand side and David Stroud and Andy Caton also offer cover in that area.

We are very hopeful of adding to the squad. There is one player in the pipeline and I will be making more calls before the 5pm deadline to see if we can add to the squad, because I would like to bring one more in aside from a midfielder.

Paul Evans has had a scan and we now await the results but we have welcomed Aaron Brown and Jamie Vincent into training this week.

The Under 18's appointment is now close and we are now finalizing things before we are in the position to announce it. Once we have the new Under 18's manager in place we will be able to do a lot more work with the younger players. It will take time but hopefully we will be seeing more kids coming through to the first team. The performance against Swansea City was very encouraging and there are some good young players coming through now."

Thanks Hexagon

Where is everybody??

Considering we are in the middle of a ruch to sign a couple of players, there has been almost no posts made in the last half hour!!

Anyone know any more details yet??  :?

Personally I am disgusted Paul Sturrock hasnt given us an update in a couple of hours, I want updates and players now  :|

Patience!  :-))(

No point speculating when Sturrock is keeping us updated.

but Rich we only come on here to speculate and debate

How am I supposed to Mass Debate without some good material! :roll:   :mrgreen:

Use your imagination.

Blame Sturrock not me!

I think (if he's fit) Steve Adams is a safe-ish bet!

Speculate on....

No more texts as yet.... there's still hope though. 1:36 to go  :shock:

This speculation is certainly more interesting than work.  With 2 out are we expecting 2 in? A centre mid + right mid.  Plus Sturrock jr. as well maybe on a short term contract?

We're certainly leaving it late.

Steve Adams is a good shout if he isn't in Brian Law's plans.

Still no club text - I'm going for Jaques Songo'o of Pompey (purely based on the fact he's a right winger and just finished up at Bournemouth - no source whatsoever) and Steve Adams

Where's Petr Mikolanda when you need him eh.

Less than an hour to go .... getting nervous now. Almost inevitably this will be cross-posted with an annoucement of three quality signings, just to make me  look a twonk.

Alas not... The plus side is that there is no repeat of the Rocastle debacle.

whatever happened to Rocastle in the end?

Bench warmer at Oldham Athletic nowadays.

praying its Pawel Abbot coming in  :sleep:

Praying it's someone coming in!

 :P

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/e/e4/200px-AB06.jpg

Could it be?? Anthony Barness?

We don't need him.

I've resigned myself to the fact we aren't signing anyone.

certainly looking that way.

In all honesty do we actually NEED anyone?

Agreed... We don't need Barness.

I like the way weve loaned 2 out and have yet to bring anyone in!

Good thinking that.  :-))(

All good things come to those who wait.....


Maybe.

It seems that Sturrock likes to have everything done and dusted before going public - that's probably it.

and we were in a position where we had to loan someone out in order to free up the wage for someone coming in.

Well Lonergan has been sent back too now -

http://www.clubcall.com/index.jsp?storyID=301160

good, he was terrible for us.

either he rates Stewart or we have someone coming in.

I am beginning to think that this one midfielder is all we are going to get with maybe his son helping out up front if he gets fit and he has been trying to tie up a winger this afternoon but appears to have failed thus far

Thats my guess anyway but I have faith that even if we got no-one in, Mr Sturrock knows what he is doing and wouldnt reside to getting deadwood in for the sake of numbers when we have youth that could do the same without wasting loans!

It's logical... I assume Blair Sturrock will maybe come in on a non-contract basis?

unattached players can be signed anytime, irrespective of transfer windows

tis true

True... This is a mystery... If we get no one, it won't be a disaster but it'll be disappointing - a day wasted!

well they 15 minutes or so left and i'm losing the optimistic feeling I had that we would get anyone in!

Not too concerned though in fairness, I think we can manage as we are just it would be a lot better if we didnt have to!

I'd rather we didn't arse around with loan players, but give a chance to the likes of Ben Wells and David Stroud.   They may turn out crap, but at least they're our crap and not somebody elses

Probably do what they normally do, and not announce anything till way after the deadline

Yeah I didn't want any loan players anyway.

Michael Timlin, Fulham and Eire U21 skipper

http://www.fulhamfc.com/MatchAndTeam/PlayerProfiles/ProfileDetails/MichaelTimlin.aspx

Michael Timlin from Fulham

The only position we badly need someone in is on the right of midfield.  But whether or not we get some loanees in today I would still expect a surprisingly high turnover of players in January.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Timlin

http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=39651

Gifted central midfielder whose progress has been hampered by injury. In 2003/2004 a broken metatarsal and a back condition held him back, but he has shown in the Academy and in the reserves that he has the ability to play in the Barclays Premiership.

from premierleague.com

He looks like Pook.

Where's that right winger we need eh? supposed we tried

every league game Monkhouse has played in we've won. FACT!

Accrington Away. FACT!

Im just hoping that Sturrock has got a load of free transfers lined up :|

ok, we've never lost a league game in which Monkhouse has played in. FACT!

is what I really meant to say

Why no right winger?!

FFS We've needed a right winger since last season.

Ben Wells!

isnt a right winger...

yeah, but he could do a job there - I'd hope better than Brownlie. PS was clearly trying to get someone in - and didn't. Shit happens. Lets get on with it and stuff Bury on Saturday

no, I dont think he could.

He has a decent cross on him, no question about it. He is also quite tidy on the ball and he looks a decent player dont get me wrong.

I just dont think he has the pace and skill to beat a full back and whip it in....

neither does shakes but he plays nearly every week

Shakes at least has the pace to get past a full back...

Shakes only plays week in week out because he is the only 'right winger' we have.

Wells is a central midfielder, who has been pushed wide right because there is no one else.

i dont reckon wells is the answer either.but i want shakes on the bench

Niether does Beckham.....
Obviously i'm not comparing Ben Wells to Beckham, like for like, but Beckham rarely beats a full back, yet can cross well and many of his crosses have resulted in scoring oppotunities.

But then again, i don't like Ben Wells at all, so i hope he doesnt play  8)

was a bit of devils advocate in there for me....Ben Wells does look to have the physical presence of a small girl, but the least you want is for the kids to get a chance before they begin learning how to lay bricks, mix cement and find their way to Supermarine.

I agree, but sadly we dont have any other options.




Beckham is different gravy though, I expect in his mid 20s he could beat full backs, he just didnt need to



he has massive foreheard though?!

I've love to see the youngsters get a chance, I've often sung the praises of Jutkiewicz and Stroud. I am all for the youngsters getting a chance, in their correct positions and Ben Wells natural position isnt on the right wing

a central midfielder is what we BADLY needed though. at least that one is out of the way. i guess we'll have to put up with Shakes until January

weston on the right?

and of course you have SHAKES  :wink: , but I think he is SO popular in Swindon like Rasiak in Poland  :P

By the way : even Polish clubs try to loan some players from England . Zagłębie Lubin wants to loan Jamie O'Hare and Lee Barnard from Tottenham...

barnard nearly signed for us on loan in 2004 i believe but broke his collarbone so we got jamie slabber instead.

see, the connections are endless - you must become a swindon fan

Could you tell me the nickname of Shakes ?
Don't tell me his nick name is 'wooden'  :soapy tit wank: , because it would mean he is a twin of Rasiak...

steve

Watching the highlights of the town v torquay game on soccernight, Ricky Shakes set up our best two chances with crosses from the right.

true.

It was also his cross to Peacock that won us the penalty.

Has he learnt how to cross then? or was he actually trying to shoot at the time?

Shakes puts 110% in every game which one way or another has an impact even if at times his crossing leaves something to be desired.

Against Torquay he did ok and the more we play this system the better he will get with time

Ricky Shakes nickname? normally Shakesy! But how about Ricky "Rhythm" Shakes

why? cos Rhythm is a dancer! :D  :dance: Go Ricky! GO Ricky!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Fatbury, you really are a fucking bellend.

 :mrgreen:

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I thought that was quite good actually! :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Cheers Sussex - gratefully accepted  :beers:

Nope.

Sturrock did mention at the fans forum he had spoken to Weston about whether he could play our right, and Weston said he perfered to play in the middle.

Sturrock isnt one for playing people out of position. Unless he really has to