New signings

Great to see some signings announced,good to see JJ on board,dont know to much about this irish fella  Montgomery. (salts)

Three more in, glad to see Ben back, Jordan one of our u18s returning, made a cracking last ditch tackle on Ed Smith last season in the 0-0 v Leighton at our place. Watford Mark is a big fan. I don't know Victor but if we are signing him without seeing him kick a ball, someone at our place must rate him very highly. Only the 8th of July and it looks like the defence could be sorted already, (guess we are not taking Collard this season then )
5 signed (not including D&G) seems things are going very well, keep it up fellas

Good too see Ben.B. re-sign for us, I think he stepped up a gear or two mid way through last season,something seemed to click into place for him .Do not know anything about Martin Griggs ,hope he can step up leagues ok, still need a keeper though

I'm pleased to see BB back, he's a useful squad player and he's only young, I think it will do him the world of good to lose the "managers son" tag.
I don't know Griggs but for the last 12-18 months I've heard quite a lot of chat about him, rumors that SB amongst others were interested in him last season but he was happy where he was, everyone tells me he's sh*t hot and will easily step up, he may well be our best signing and the leagues leading scorer

Just had a look at the squad thats listed so far,16/7 and i see Rob Tomlin listed. When is he going to the states

Think Steve Bateman did very well but really there wasn't a massive change from Faulconbridge's team. Only really decent player SB brought in was Bradley Wadkins but what we also needed that never arrived was a decent striker.

I really welocme news of signings that the new managers are making. I think the club needs a complete clearout.

I'm much more poptimisitic about this than last season. C'mon FC!

I disagree with nearly all you wrote Jools
Steve brought in a whole new defence and GK with the exception of Ben, think it would be easier to say who stayed from Craigs team 5 or 6 out of the whole squad would be my guess, same as this season by the look of things. Needed a goalscorer? I thought that was resolved with Pricey and Hauley!
Not so sure what poptimisitic means but it sounds like optimistic. In the previous two seasons I have expected us to finish higher than we did, I don't expect us to finish that high this year.
What I do really like is the award winners we are bringing in, managers, fans, and players player, clearly these type of players bring qualities that some of us feel our squads have been lacking in.

C'mon FC !

absoloutly delighted with martin griggs coming on board.

i know we courted him before last season, but he declined to continue with Risborough Rangers. im not sure whats changed his mind this time, but im so pleased something has.

i know a couple of guys involved with risborough and griggs was their absoloute star man - his goal record is incredible. when i see them next i suspect they'll be gutted.

was a bit doom and gloom about brian and gareth leaving but for me, on paper, we have the greatest replacement possible in griggs for a goal scorer. i hope he fits into the team and keeps that form he's shown in the league below.

DB wrote:
What I do really like is the award winners we are bringing in, managers, fans, and players player, clearly these type of players bring qualities that some of us feel our squads have been lacking in.

Glass half empty

I'll ave arf!

Where is the glass

DB wrote:I disagree with nearly all you wrote Jools
Steve brought in a whole new defence and GK with the exception of Ben, think it would be easier to say who stayed from Craigs team 5 or 6 out of the whole squad would be my guess, same as this season by the look of things. Needed a goalscorer? I thought that was resolved with Pricey and Hauley!
Not so sure what poptimisitic means but it sounds like optimistic. In the previous two seasons I have expected us to finish higher than we did, I don't expect us to finish that high this year.
What I do really like is the award winners we are bringing in, managers, fans, and players player, clearly these type of players bring qualities that some of us feel our squads have been lacking in.

C'mon FC !

We'll remember this post at the end of the season. Make mine half a mild.

I'm struggling to understand why you see my post as being negative Jools?
I'm suggesting that we have signed players that are coachable and hopefully will listen to what is asked of them for the sake of the team instead of doing what they want, for example as good as Pricey was he will never win managers or players player of the year while ever he's got a hole in his arse!

Great signing in Lammy, he was one of the best players we had until he progressed to Chesham,that's if it is our Mark Lambert,great signing if it is him.O P.

Old Plumb wrote:Great signing in Lammy, he was one of the best players we had until he progressed to Chesham,that's if it is our Mark Lambert,great signing if it is him.O P.

Has he signed now then?

Lab wrote:

Old Plumb wrote:Great signing in Lammy, he was one of the best players we had until he progressed to Chesham,that's if it is our Mark Lambert,great signing if it is him.O P.

Has he signed now then?

Not 100% sure but i don't think he has at the moment

LOL

He has signed

Is that a faint whiff of play offs I can smell drifting up from Quarrendon ?

DB wrote:Is that a faint whiff of play offs I can smell drifting up from Quarrendon ?

Sure its not the sewage plant from Rabans Lane?

Looks a strong squad, good mix of older and younger players involved, O P.

Looking forward to seeing this team this season. Think Kieron Turner could be the best player at this club since Bradley Wadkins

Should be a good test tomorrow at Hemel.

Thorny-D wrote:Should be a good test tomorrow at Hemel.

Hemel did you mean berkhampstead

brownie wrote:

Thorny-D wrote:Should be a good test tomorrow at Hemel.

Hemel did you mean berkhampstead

Yes, I did indeed mean Berkhamstead.

I'm always getting those two mixed up,,d'oh!