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Italy trip key for team bonding - Caddis
           

  PAUL Caddis believes Swindon’s upcoming tour of Italy will provide the perfect opportunity for the club’s players – both old and new - to bond and ensure they hit the ground running come the start
  of the season.

           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/9118909.Italy_trip_key_for_team_bonding___Caddis/?ref=rss
           

Shame they aren't all signed up then isn't it!

Sunday stories from the Adver?

Is it just me, or have you been an uncharacteristically miserable bastard lately Batch? :D

My grumpyness is completely in character.

Hopefully going to have to do some more bonding, as weve only got half a first team.

Caddis and Ferry had a great time bonding with their teammates last summer. Sadly for us it was with Celtic in the USA.

There's definitely an importance of team togetherness. Is it wishful to suggest that Town might doing some transfer business on a Sunday?

Apologies for my recent PST (Pre season tension). I thought I'd have grown out of it by my age.

In all seriousness I love what PDC says. I am concerned we won't hit the ground running though due to the lateness of deals. Plenty of time before season starts granted, not so many games though (3 after Italy?).

Hopefully PDC can tie up a few deals whilst he is out there. Either loanees from the likes of AC Milan, or permanent signings from elsewhere. Wishful thinking I know, but I trust Paolo to have a team fit to take on League Two

We need about 6 signings I think. In all fairness the core of the squad is there so it's not all lost.

I'd say get 2 strikers in, a left back and maybe a right winger and we're just about there.

I'd like this line up for the first game of the season....

GK Lanzano

RB Amankwaah
CB Devera
CB Comazzi
LB Kennedy (or new signing)

RM Caddis
CM Ferry
CM Risser
LM Ritchie

ST ????
ST De Vita ?

Is there a chance we might not line up as a 4-4-2, has PDC said anything regarding his preference?

So Ralphy, you would pick 10 players and of those youve only seen half of them play.

Thanks for that.  ;)

I see what you mean, but we're going to need more than 4 more players to provide the depth that we'll need for a promotion challenge.  I'm not convinced that all of the players you've listed (Lanzano and De Vita, to name two, for example) are going to be in the 'First XI'.  I'd love to all of those players step up and claim a place - especially Callum.  But we need competition.  We have freed up a lot of ££ with the clear out.  There should be scope to get a reasonably sized squad in there now.

Or Risser.

I'm trusting PDC's judgement on the players he's signed :)

I hope poor old Timlin wont see your team on here. Warming the bench again, to a team with 10 players, and a Namibian midfielder from the Norwegian 2nd division! Might be enough to tip him over the edge!

Well half the team can do some bonding at least!

In my defence, I left one of the strikers places vacant because I'm assuming a new one will be brought in soon.

What would your team be ?

Only team Id be concerned with would be my scouting team at the moment to get some more first team players.

Very unlike you spence to be so panicky.5 Weeks left yet we will be fine. Like i said i can't help but feel with hardly any of the budget used yet and teams now back in training we will see some movement.

What games are they supposed to be scouting at?

Thats because I think the squad is unbalanced, and weak in exactly the same areas it was last season.

Im worried because the Pox game is the week before the transfer deadline, so we might still have a very unbalanced squad for that game.

We might get full backs signed before the season, but signing strikers over the summer has consistantly been a nightmare for STFC for over the past 4 summers, and weve got only 1 striker with any professional experience. Can honestly see us playing De Vita up front on his own in the first few games, then splashing some money on deadline day. For me that is an inditement of the transfer policy under Fitton, you only get 2 shots at deadline day bids over a 12 month period, and we mostly wasted the first one a week after making a huge profit on Charlie Austin. And no, BangkokRed, Im not interested in having an arguement about it, so dont even fucking bother.

Swedish division 6 South.

Good job Andrew Fitton isn't chairman any more then.

the squad does look imbalanced as it isn't anywhere near complete yet. Let's wait a week or 3 before panicking eh

Yes, I saw he resigned because he had taken the club one step forward, and then 2 back.

yarp agreed.

I don't understand how we have taken two steps back

Because we come together cuz opposites attract?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xweiQukBM_k

 :)

Ha ha ha, which out of 'Namibian' and 'Norwegian 2nd Division' did you intend to be the most disparaging?

I think he means 10 steps forward, 2 steps back. To imply we've worse off than when Fitton took over is idiotic. Unless he means in a league sense in which case it's blinkered belligerence.

i was being a bit rhetorical.

I think he is referring to us not having a complete squad yet, which must mean we aren't trying or something

Now I understand

Lets just sign a couple of strikers and I will be a lot happier.

But L1 players these days are desperate not to drop down to L2. Most of these players have big ego's and they dont like demoting themselves. In the eyes of players back in january we were still last seasons play off finalists, still League 1 and well saveable. Now we are a L2 club with half a first team and 90% of L1 players wont touch us with a barge pole.

Repeat to self - Reasons to be positive - Di Canio, our midfield, and Jeremy Wray. But the Pox game is too early and our 38 year unbeaten home record against them is definitely in danger.

Paolo, it's Paolo.

That's a pretty ridiculous statement to be fair, considering we've not even played a pre-season friendly, let alone kicked a ball in anger let alone the fact that for those same reasons we have no idea what O*ford are going to be like ::)