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After the Ross Hannah fiasco I will wait for official confirmation he has signed before getting too excited :Oops: :Oops: !!

[quote="SuperNickyWroe"]somebody told me tonight he will be signing.[/quote]
I won't believe it until I see it. You are in disgrace :na: .

somebody told me tonight he will be signing.

That tweet fills me with hope GG and I agree. It appeared before that he was ready to say his goodbyes and perhaps having done so did not want to look back.
He is more than welcome back here and as Jeff says regardless of where we are.

I would be surprised if Stanley ended up anywhere other than with us.

He wouldn't have gone to Rotherham, nor would he be going to the game tomorrow, if he wasn't seriously interested in being part of the party next season. We just have to make sure we prioritise his signature in the summer, regardless of what division we're in.

Stanley's [url=http://x.com/#!/Staners6/status/69085824964247552]latest tweet[/url] congratulates Bentley and ends with "all the best mate", which isn't normally what you'd say to someone you're likely to be working with in future, so I choose to interpret that as him having made his mind up to leave Morecambe.

[quote="gulltastic"]great idea, would love it if he signed.
Il be singing!!![/quote]
Huzzah! Gulls unite!

great idea, would love it if he signed.
Il be singing!!!

Sing a Stanley song and try to get a big chunk of the crowd to join in. Individuals might do it but to hear his name sung in unison might swing it. The thread on Yellow Army says they'll be at the away end of the pop but if he's sat in the family stand why not congregate down that end before the match and chant his name for 5-10mins.
We want him, we need him. Make sure he knows it. Wish I could be there.

Stanners will be 'in our end' tomorrow. Not sure where exactly, but i would suggest anyone that bumps into him lets him know exactly how keen we are for him to stay!

The guy used to play for Telford, so he would probably love that.
Sorry to say that I believe him and Bentley struck up a very close friendship, whilst they were together at Telford, which has no doubt continued at Morecambe.
Would like to wish you good luck on Saturday, but being a Shrew, it's difficult, so here's hoping for a good game and a good advert for League 2 football, for those watching on t.v.

Bentley got it. :devil:

[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13389753.stm[/url]

Tough decision for Staners then (particularly if we stay in L2). No doubt in my mind that Bentley will want his old mate back.

Mind you, Staners will be at Plainmoor tomorrow cheering the boys on .... perhaps we could chain him to one of the floodlight pylons (while stripped naked) until he agrees to sign! :~D

"An interesting day and interesting 2 months ahead!"

Perhaps the prospect of returning to Morecambe isn't what Craig Stanley was referring to ..... maybe he's lining up a move to the South West after all ? :-o

Hmmm, cynical me thinks that this may well be the perfect bargaining chip for Stanley. Before, he had a straight choice of playing for us or warming the bench (if he was lucky) for Morecambe. Even if we offered identical terms to his Morecambe contract, he was better off, since he would be playing regularly. Now though, it seems that he holds all the aces (unless we go up, in which case it's about 50:50), given that he can renegotiate with Morecambe, or come down here.

Time will tell on this one. I think he loves Torquay, but perhaps a chunk of that love was based upon us being his way out of a nightmare situation at Morecambe. We are about to find out just how big a chunk it is.

Matt.

"[i]An interesting day and interesting 2 months ahead[/i]!"

A post from Craig Stanley on Twitter.

Perhaps I am reading too much into it but I wonder if this means that he has had contact from Morecambe about staying? It appears that Morecambe player Jim Bentley has been installed as the early favourite to take over from Sammy McIlroy and Morecambe fans are already speculating on their forum that should he get the job then there is every chance he will bring his old mate Craig Stanley back. Given that Sammy McIlroy was the main reason why Staners wanted to leave in the first place I just sense that getting his signature on a contract could just have got a whole lot harder - should Bentley get the job.

I guess tieing him (Staners) down to a deal any earlier wasn't really an option but he seemed so keen a week ago that if the terms offered were right for him he would have signed it there and then ... now I'm not so sure?