Nathan Arnold has signed!

Tagg, some players don't fit into certain teams, formations or into managers plans. Doesn't mean that theyre not good (though most of the time with us it does). Heard good things in the past about this lad though, but only time will tell

Quoted from TAGG

Have you seem him play?? I have a few times & he was crap every time I've seen him. I can only go on what I've seen of the bloke.  
He's been let go because he would have no chance of cutting it in the league. He couldn't get a game at the back end of the season.
You tell me what he brings to Town that will improve us from last season????
Do you think this signing shows ambition???

I've seen him play a fair few times and have to say he has always looked a danger, he has good pace and a trick in him, I think it's a really good attacking signing, can play a couple of positions too, we have some real pace and width now.

Quoted from headingly_mariner

I've seen him play a fair few times and have to say he has always looked a danger, he has good pace and a trick in him, I think it's a really good attacking signing, can play a couple of positions too, we have some real pace and width now.

Well that's opinions for ye

Do we actually have a pacey team though?

Asward
Nsiala - heard he has pace, not seen him much though.
Brown??
Mackreth
Arnold
Neilson?? I think he's more close ball control than direct pace.

We have lost a little pace in rodman and Colbeck which cancel out the two new wingers, so I'd say the new addition of pace we have is brown and Nsiala.

Would rather have neilson that can run the ball down the wing, than a headless chicken with two left feet. Sorry, no left feet!

Quoted from TAGG

Have you seem him play?? I have a few times & he was crap every time I've seen him. I can only go on what I've seen of the bloke.  
He's been let go because he would have no chance of cutting it in the league. He couldn't get a game at the back end of the season.
You tell me what he brings to Town that will improve us from last season????
Do you think this signing shows ambition???

To be honest I couldn't give a toss what sort of gesture or message a signing shows. It's all about winning games and getting promoted. As long as we don't sign Lee Hughes or people or similar, I'll make decisions based on performances for Grimsby. Each to their own though eh

What I would say (and this may be just conjecture) is that if he mainly featured in Cambridge's first half of the season but not much in the second half, wasn't the first half when Cambridge were top of the league and really impressive, and then they flopped in the second half of the season (when he wasn't involved)? This probably wasn't the only factor in Cambridge's flop in second half of the season (return of loan players etc), but judging from the stat I read that he was their second-best assister all season despite missing half the season, I'd say he's not too bad a signing to provide competition for Mackreth and Neilson.

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Tagg, some players don't fit into certain teams, formations or into managers plans. Doesn't mean that theyre not good (though most of the time with us it does). Heard good things in the past about this lad though, but only time will tell

I have to agree with this look at Connell was never prolific but came to town and it just clicked were as some have come and its just not happened.   However fingers crossed we have a good season utfm.

Quoted from LongEatonMariner

To be honest I couldn't give a toss what sort of gesture or message a signing shows. It's all about winning games and getting promoted. As long as we don't sign Lee Hughes or people or similar, I'll make decisions based on performances for Grimsby. Each to their own though eh

So obviously you haven't seen him play.
Your basing your opinion on nothing and I'm basing my opinion on what I've seen.
The whole point of getting players in is to improve the team and in my opinion this bloke doesn't do this(based on what I've seen of him)
So no I don't do it for a bet.

Remember him looking decent for Mansfield against us way back when and looked alright for Alfy too. Much better than Colbeck.