I was playing devils advocate some weeks ago when I put up a thread titled "Have we been had ?"…….its beginning to look as though we have.

I cannot believe the negativity on this site - well, yes I can because it's about the only emotion ever expressed on MB! We desperately need a keeper so the manager does the business - good on him. Yes, he's Fulham's third choice but do you think for one moment that we could afford their 2nd or 1st choices? I seem to remember another London based third choice keeper who came in temporarily and he was the best home keeper to ever stand between the sticks at NYS.

We're 4+2 games into the season and in two of those matches we've been disappointing. In the other 4 we've performed between good and bloody marvellous. In my opinion Warne has intelligently gathered a group of players who have the potential to become a potent League 1 unit. He's brought in fire power with Proctor and Moore, wide mid-field skill in Williams (one bad game), experience and holding mid-field ability in Potter (one bad game), athletic and skillful CBs in Ajayi and Ihiekwe, and good quality full backs in Emmanuel, ***mings and Purrington. Yes, there's some naivety and lack of leadership in some areas, but he's got the ingredients and he now needs time for them to gel. And don't forget he's also got rid of an awful lot of detritus left by his illustrious predecessors.

The keeper is the key area of concern in the current team. The current in***bent has contributed to numerous conceded goals already and has instilled a nervy lack of confidence in the CBs and it is vital that he is either replaced or has someone pushing him for the first team shirt. Rather than looking for downsides in this transfer, celebrate the fact that we have a manager who has identified a problem and has made moves to resolve it. If it turns out to be a disaster, by all means vent your anger. But for now give him a break for goodness sake.

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I cannot believe the negativity on this site - well, yes I can because it's about the only emotion ever expressed on MB! We desperately need a keeper so the manager does the business - good on him. Yes, he's Fulham's third choice but do you think for one moment that we could afford their 2nd or 1st choices? I seem to remember another London based third choice keeper who came in temporarily and he was the best home keeper to ever stand between the sticks at NYS.

We're 4+2 games into the season and in two of those matches we've been disappointing. In the other 4 we've performed between good and bloody marvellous. In my opinion Warne has intelligently gathered a group of players who have the potential to become a potent League 1 unit. He's brought in fire power with Proctor and Moore, wide mid-field skill in Williams (one bad game), experience and holding mid-field ability in Potter (one bad game), athletic and skillful CBs in Ajayi and Ihiekwe, and good quality full backs in Emmanuel, ***mings and Purrington. Yes, there's some naivety and lack of leadership in some areas, but he's got the ingredients and he now needs time for them to gel. And don't forget he's also got rid of an awful lot of detritus left by his illustrious predecessors.

The keeper is the key area of concern in the current team. The current in***bent has contributed to numerous conceded goals already and has instilled a nervy lack of confidence in the CBs and it is vital that he is either replaced or has someone pushing him for the first team shirt. Rather than looking for downsides in this transfer, celebrate the fact that we have a manager who has identified a problem and has made moves to resolve it. If it turns out to be a disaster, by all means vent your anger. But for now give him a break for goodness sake.

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 Sorry Glenn, I respect your opinion but I think you are wide of the mark.  I think when you break it down we have a Chairman promising us a trip to Harrods and a bloke who has only just passed his driving test giving us a lift to Lidl.  Tony has given Warney a one year deal, and he will not be given time to get them to gel.  We were diabolical last season - an embarrassing product of numerous mistakes made over a long period of time.  We needed to take the opportunity that relegation presented us with to re-boot.  We were told we would have a top five budget and a push for promotion.  What we have seen is that a lot of poor players are still with us, and to them we have added (with a couple of notable exceptions) an assortment of waifs and strays.  Kids on loan from Championship clubs and out of contract players from teams we should be aspiring to be above.  If tomorrow brings the expected couple of youngsters, on loan or otherwise, I will be writing to Tony Stewart to seek some clarification and reassurance.  In the absence of a fans forum, and given that the local media seem to be unable or unwilling to ask any probing questions, that may be my only hope of getting any real information although I shan't be holding my breath.

 

Got to be better than the current pair. Straight in for me. Pollitt must be the only one that rates O'Donnell.

I've said it somewhere else.

The cash is gone with season after season going over budget & rolling on into the next one, that snowball has finally come to a head.

We have no money, we've maxed out the card - now we gotta use time to just mess around in the lower reaches of L1 until the point comes we can hopefully start to spend again and not repeat the same mistakes.

There is no cash