Transfer Window Reflection Thread

Quoted from mimma

Wickham will surely go back to the veggies if he can't find a team higher. They can afford his wages.

He'll probably end up and Wrexham!!

Disappointment comes when reality falls short of expectation.

In this case many of us were hoping to sign Dallas, and the posts which mistakenly claimed he had signed lead us to believe that he had.  So when it emerged that he wasn't coming, added to the Malarkey milarky,  it gave the impression that the club had failed to get these deals over the line.

Well, it is what it is. For me the most important thing now is to secure L2 status and then aim to build the squad further in the summer. The fact is that we are not safe yet. You often see a club plunge into relegation from an apparently safe position. I remember one season, 2011 I think when Lincoln were on 40 points with ten games to go and looked safe. They got one point in those ten games and went down.  It certainly stopped one particular imp poster from gloating for a while, but it should act as a warning sign that 16th place on 30 points is by no means a safe harbor.

I think signing Dallas would certainly have us looking up rather than down the table. However, our situation following the window is as follows. To the squad that performed so well at Luton we can add in O'Neil, Amos, MacAtee, Wearne, Lloyd, Peters, and Emmanuel for the coming league games. (the latter two also available for the Cup game).  

I think that is a squad with plenty of options and it should be able to start picking up wins in L2. So I am confident that we will stay up, which realistically will be an ok result given that most of of players were playing in the NL last season.      

Quoted from ginnywings

How many more times are you going to point out that you were right all along, only to be "shouted down"?

I'm also not sure that the board "promised" to strengthen every window. Stated aim maybe.

Now some may say we are no stronger now than before the window, but that is arguable and yet to be determined. I think the new signings look a bit stronger than those that went out, especially Emmanuel, who could be another Townsend in his impact.

The players who went out were mainly ineffective and no great loss. Richardson the pick of the bunch, but couldn't get past his injuries enough.

I get that a lot of fans are disappointed, and many are looking over their shoulders, with recent form being worrying, but the same players started the season in pretty good form. They have showed themselves to be pretty competent in a lot of games but lack that consistency and a bit of a cutting edge. I was hoping, like others, that the cutting edge part was addressed in this window. Maybe it has been, time will tell.

I’m not exactly pleased with it Ginny, I would’ve loved to have been proven wrong. It genuinely boils my urine knowing the people who dismissed it as moaning at the start are the ones left scratching their heads as to what just went on when 2 weeks ago they were calling you a moaning illegitimate and just wait for the window to shut. In Hursts interview he seemed wound up to hear Matt Dean questioning him on the lack of movement too, but we ended up doing exactly what people feared we would.

If a bunch of miserable twits on a forum saw it coming a mile off, why didn’t Hurst? And if he did, why were we lurking round in the bargain basement on the last day of the window?

Probably shouldn’t let it wind me up as much as it has the habit of doing, but we all support the same football club and have the same interest in it doing well.

I’ve sent my list of questions for the fans forum, and I really hope some are answered (they’re reasonably written too!)

We weren't in for Dallas, due to him seeing his contract out which will give him more bargaining power come the summer.
Mullarkey signed for a club close to his home rather than take in a 2 hour plus drive for similar cash.
People really need to stop believing Twitter bullshit accounts and using them as a stick to beat the club with....

We collectively managed to create 341 pages of banter, nonsense, insults, speculation and mostly good entertainment, that's the real story of this transfer window.  

341 pages, which clubs rumour forums have we beaten with that figure do we think?  

I'm not disappointed, we did exactly what I expected in this window. Sign a player who has spent more time in the physio room than in training in recent times on a "hopefully stays fit contract" and 3 or 4 youth players from teams above us.

Anyone who thought differently was kidding themselves.

Quoted from coddy60

We weren't in for Dallas, due to him seeing his contract out which will give him more bargaining power come the summer.
Mullarkey signed for a club close to his home rather than take in a 2 hour plus drive for similar cash.
People really need to stop believing Twitter bullshit accounts and using them as a stick to beat the club with....

We were in for Dallas and we pulled out of the Mullarkey deal when Emmanuel became available.

If you’re going to slate others for believing Twitter posts, at least get your own facts correct

Quoted from coddy60

We weren't in for Dallas, due to him seeing his contract out which will give him more bargaining power come the summer.
Mullarkey signed for a club close to his home rather than take in a 2 hour plus drive for similar cash.
People really need to stop believing Twitter bullshit accounts and using them as a stick to beat the club with....

This.

People with 'sources' or friends within the club happy to spout all and sundry or someone PM'ing initials of the player we are definitely signing on request. It's just your standard WUM's with their internet jiggery pokery which folk will fall for yet again come the next transfer window and then furiously lose their heads again.

What we need to remember is that a good percentage of transfer fees received will have gone towards paying off the thing that used to own the club. Also yes, we have earned a few pennies in the cup run BUT monies won't be available from it until the end of the season, so will be in the budget for next season.

Quoted from out of town

We were in for Dallas and we pulled out of the Mullarkey deal when Emmanuel became available.

If you’re going to slate others for believing Twitter posts, at least get your own facts correct

My facts are fine ta, and my sources are impeccable...