It's all a **** **** at this level. We'll see 5 weeks into the season how the team is, might be great, might be awful, might be mediocore. Until then the speculation is almost as wrong as it is right.
Hailed as good signings last year: Joseph Mills, Luke Racic, Cian Bolger, Benny Ashley-Seal
Met with
: Missilou, Horsfall, Ricky Korboa
Met with drab enthusiasm : Loyd Jones, Nuttall
So, basically no correlation whatsoever between what we thought of the signings and how they got on.
Exactly. At our level (especially league 2) with let's say a 'competitive' budget, it's a pure lottery. The majority of any names signed by us are going to be unknown to the majority of us, unless you are some lower league player specialist. Sure, sign a striker with 3 goals in 100 games and it gives you a decent insight. Most players however have mixed form and polarize opinion, we have more than enough first hand experience of that. Any show reel makes a player look like Messi, others that leave with scathing reviews become your talisman. We're never going to be dealing in the well known names around the Prem and Championship, or players on that trajectory. I think that is why we gravitate to some ex-players so much, because we know them. Lewis could become the new JJOT.
Ultimately we will have very little idea until a ball is kicked in anger and they have a few competitive league games to see what we are in for.
I'm just pleased it will be a different squad to the crap endured last season. Enough of the old crap, let's have some new crap!
