Well our manager is top quality. Hes working on a budget smaller than i'd say the top 5 ok CCL2. We have a 20man squad of which 3 are youth and signed youth contracts this season: 1 in Jan and 2 in March. Another is a Loanee. This season we have had i'd say 4 loan players. Dan Jones, Mark Little (Wolves) Alex Russell (Bristol City) and Jonathan Hayes. Considerring 75% of the fans say Little is one of the best defenders ever to play for the club and 99% want to sign Jonesy and Little on again next year shows he has an eye for talent. He signed Gabor Gypes and Adbeyo Akinfenwa in mid season. Beyo went on to scored 6/6 games and Gypes has been solid a him and Little kept more clean sheets since Jan than the start of the season. The club is pushing for the stadium redevelopment which we have been pushing for fo years. But its typical of this town they said they would redevelop the town center 4 years ago and nothing has happend.
As for the Manager if you ever hear him he says 'push on' and 'ambition' and 'reaction' alot. He talks the talk and seeming walks the walk. Dec/Jan/Feb were the turning points of our season. We were flirting with relegation and he brough Beyo and Gabor and Little in aswell as selling our them top goal scorer, Andy Kirk (8 goals), on a free transfer. This may sound stupid but Kirk was the top earner and this freed up funds to sign Little, Beyo and Gypes, they didnt cost anything but there wage was not small.
Also in Jan one of our main players (came 3rd in our player of the year vote) Jason Crowe trun down a 300k move to Plymouth. However our CM Brad Johnson left us for Leeds (250K). Mark Bunn (2nd in player of the year vote) had a two day training session at Man City on Monday and 3 Prem clubs are said to chase him. Hes been called best keeper (Young and English anyway) outside the prem. Gabor Gypes is signed on for next year however he has been followed by Hull and QPR. This year Alex Dyer, Liam Dolman, Chris Dunn, Mark Bunn and Greg Taylor are all youth teamer who have played or been around the first team this year. Along with young players like Ryan Gilligan and Giles Coke (who rejected QPR to come to us in the summer) its been a good season.
Only bad note of the season in Poul Hubertz leaving. Top goalscorer with 13 he has decided to go back to Denmark. For he was the player of the season. Very good player and caused alot of trouble. Good luck to him.
We shall 'push on' and next year we will be better.
Edit :Sureshot, read paragraph 3 👍
Edit v2: We have come along way from 2 years ago when Colin Calderwood left and gutted the club of all but 2 of its staff. Left us right in the crap. I hope he loses his job soon. I've heard that even if he got the club up he would lose his job.
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