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http://www.exeweb.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36509 some very mixed reviews in there - which fully supports hypchondriac's hesitancy. Although the balanced opinion from what I can see is that he is a genuine tough ballwinner, that makes the odd mistake, hoofs it too much and is at his best when he just wins the ball and gives it short to someone a shed load better on the ball - sounds very much like Trottman to me. Although one or two suggest that he can pass and wouldn't get int he side if he didn't. Let's hope so. Might be a good time to think about what a thread on here would look like if one of our centre backs was leaving and the kind of posts you'd get on there, cos if it was Perry off you'd get lots of good and plenty of **** from me and one or two others, Thomas would get lots of **** and a fair bit of not too bad, Lancashire would get nearly all **** with the spattering of give him time from me and others.

and your opinion was that he is not better than we already have. Do you actually know that?

he might play Waigo up front more now he has settled in, and also give Pattison a bit more game time. There doesn't appear to be too many strikers to go for. Jackson is perhaps too expensive and the League 2 doesn't seem to offer the striker withpace that we need. Is the loan market open to us after the window closes?

maybe as he is out of contract in the summer we are waiting till then so as to get him for free?

maybe we have mroe than one target for each of the positions thathe has highlighted. Makes total sense to not put all of your eggs into one basket - perhaps that was Burley's method - so Ward or Seaborne, Danns or Stock etc. Or as you have put it we are signing shed loads of players. Wonder when some will go out the door? I'd prefer us not to go back to the days of hoarding lots of **** players in squads of 40.

see, even you're not sure.

yet to prove he can play in midfield either though.

yeah cos clubs tend to agree to extra payments on the 117th league game (or 127th game for the club)

you shouldn't, fans just feel happier and more confident when signings are players they haev heard of, even if they are total ****e. Last season for instance, if we were signing either Hammond or Pulis, which do you think people woudl have preferred at the time? Exactly the same thing happened when we signed Marsden. He was stand out, at Brum - I know because I used to go to Brum games with a best mate, but because no one had heard of him when we signed him from Wolves there were so many comments similar to what I am seeing now with Seaborne. With Marsden he had to make the step up so there was always a slight doubt in my mind how effective he could be, especially when we moved him out to the left, but with Seaborne I don't have those doubts.

was he ****.

spot on. They looked assured and as I recall they played it out from the back so perhaps the lad is a proper player. I do not understand these `underwelmed' posts at all. Are they underwelmed because they don't know him, or underwelmed because they wanted the more well known, but not neccesarily better Ward? We've signed a young, tall centre back from a team in our own division who wanted to keep him. What more could you want? Why also, when we have more money than any other club in this divison, would we spend wedge on him if AP didn't think he was decent? It's not a desperation signing like Thomas or Perry. Personally I can't wait to see the lad winning headers and dominating strikers like a decent back should. One last thing, does anyone recall Lambert having much of a game against him. He didn't. I wonder why?

I assume Seaborne is the one other then or maybe we take his comment with a pinch of salt seeing as preseason he said one or two and signed a handful.

Excellent signing. 6'3" centre backs. Love 'em. Maybe at last we can look to get rid of Thomas and Perry.

was on his way to the sack before their fortunes turned and they have been on a decent little run recently coinciding with goals from Freddie Eastwood.

totally the judas' fault and boy did the director make sure the world knew it.

not sure I said we would, just said I thought we should be looking as there are plenty of very good players that coud improve us from our division and below.

is that a Blackadder Goes Forth style inclusion of Hull there?

I believe the club became debt free when they did the deal to buy it. But I don't think anything has been said about the financial workings of the club sinced then. I'm not saying anything is wrong, I'm just saying no one really knows and therefore there will always be a nagging feeling that we could be left exposed at some point especially if we are spending much more than we were earning.

Of those mention I'm happy with Forecast, Pattison, Morgan - goes without saying, and Lancashire. Forecast has done nothing wrong and I've not seen anything of him so won't judge him. If Davis gets injured who do you want on th ebench, and as a league 1 club who do you expect we could get that would be better? For me Pattison is a great prospect. He has strength, enough pace, work rate, decent enough touch and scores the odd goal. Lafferty, a very similar player went for a small fortune when he signed for Rangers. Lancashire has not shined, the main problem is being bullied by forwards in the CCC, but given time I think he has a chance to turn things round here. He is very classy on the ball, he just needs to toughen up.

people keep saying ML has paid for this and that out of his own pocket, but is there any firm evidence that this is the case other than to buy the club in the first place? I'm sure the same thing was said about Gaydamak only for the skates to find out he was actually lending the club the money for it to be repaid at a later date (when he got bored etc). Who's to say that ML is not doing the exact same thing?

perhaps he's come to see the the skates' on the off chance the transfer embargo is lifted before Feb 1st.

Tyson is principally a striker. They have played him wide left because, a) they don't have anyone else b) they have 6 strikers.

you could be right, but perhaps that says more for our scouting network, Pardew's ability to spot emerging talent, and maybe the pressure to get promotion now rather than build a side to go up next season if we don't make it this. That doesn't mean there is not real quality spread across this league and below. Spending big now is fine, but I have to say that there's going to be so many out of contract players in the summer and with cash available for signing om fees and wages we could clean up the best talent without the millions on transfer fees. We are showing a lack of patience (or a huge desire to push on) and therefore proven talent rather than potential seems to be the order of the day. In APs defence we have quite a lot of youngsters already so its mid career players we needed.

so long as its not David curb crawling Pleat and his David McGoldrick recommendations. He couldn't spot Messi in a Sunday League game.

absolute rubbish. There are quality players playing for poor sides and there are poor players in the quality sides.