kyle Bennett

Quoted from Les Brechin

https://gaschat.co.uk/thread/16844/bennett-grimsby

One thing I didn't know until I had a quick browse at that thread is that Tommy Widdrington is now head of recruitment at Bristol Rovers.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Purely on paper this would be an excellent signing.

Remember watching him tearing us an absolute new one in pre-season for Donny a few years back.

I get the concern that it's another signing in an area where we seem bloated but I can only echo the thoughts of those who are questioning if we actually are...

Of the 17 listed on the official site as midfielders, I reckon only 6 are what you would class as first team central midfielders;

Rose, Williams, Spokes, Taylor, Clifton and Morton.

A further 6 are either Academy lads or new professionals (in the case of one, out on loan);

Curran, Boyd, Grist, Painter, Starbuck and Tomlinson.

You've then got 4 who are wide attackers;

Wright, Edwards, Tilley and Scannell.

Plus Hewitt as a utility player, even if you can him as a central midfielder it's 7 covering 3 positions (presuming that's the system we're going with).  

It looks more because we've given numbers to a fair amount of youth lads for the EFL Trophy games and we're finally giving lads the chance to develop upon graduating from the youth team so the numbers are a bit more bloated (the right approach in my mind too). I think Holloway is also looking at trying to bridge that gap between kids and men too by having a few punts on rough diamonds (as Brian Laws would say)....

Look at it another way.  I reckon at the minute we've got a first team squad of 21

McKeown, Hendrie, Preston, Ohman, Waterfall, Pollock, Mohsni, Rose, Williams, Scannell, Clifton, Wright, Spokes, Edwards, Tilley, Taylor, Morton, Hewitt, Green, Gibson and Hanson.

There's then 8 lads who are prospects, at various points of the season they'll get game time and may graduate to the above list.  But for now they're in development (I've discounted Russell from any list).

Battersby, Hope, Idehen, Curran, Starbuck, Painter, Jackson and Sisay.

Plus a couple of youth team lads.

That's not a huge squad really.  Not when we'll soon get into the nitty-gritty of Sat-Tues-Sat-Tues before long.

Even taking Bennett's position as a wide attacker into consideration, if we got 4-3-3/4-5-1 or 4-4-2 you're going to have 2 of them on the pitch at anyone time.  We've got 5 (including Bennett).  I'd argue that Edwards might be used more centrally and Tilley deeper.

Quoted from Henryscat

Yes that was me on geocities.

The internet moved on, my html skills didn’t so I gave up.

Quoted from Heisenberg

And Boyd is still at school!

Quoted from Poojah

I'm really sorry for taking this thread off on a tangent, but your username has just triggered a weird sense of nostalgia in me. I seem to recall, all the way back in the late 90's as I was just getting to grips with the concept of dial-up internet and the porn bonanza it brought with it, there was an unoffical Town site which also happened to be Henry's cat themed. Was it yours by any chance?

Edit: I think I've found it (click the alternating Town badge to enter the site)...

https://web.archive.org/web/19991006221227/http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Stadium/1723/

I loved it when the internet used to look like this.

Quoted from LondonMariner43

So have we actually signed Kyle Bennett?  The Telegraph seems to have articles saying we are near to signing him but went quiet after that