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[quote="brucie"]Why on earth do you think Buckle is not going to get a play off spot - just have a look at the players he has signed. This is league 2 for christ sake. He is bound to get them in the top seven.[/quote]

As soon as Buckle stops sh1tting all over us (hopefully this is now over but still have Robertson saga to see out) then I could not give two sh1ts about them (except for when we play them). We need to concentrate and put our energies into TUFC and stop worrying about the way we have been treated. If they walk they league - so be it.

Karma will sort Buckle out in the end and you can't really blame Rovers fans for being excited about next season - I would be in their shoes (they do not know the real Buckle yet - remember!)

Brucie,you have answered your own question in your posts over the last four years.

Where you have told us ,Buckle is tacticly clueless,no plan b ,would not know when the right time or right player to substitute if it smacked him in the face,etc,etc,so if your right Brucie,Buckle can have all the best players ,the most money,aswell as all the tea in China,he is going to fall flat on his face.

he SHOULD, but doesn't mean he WILL, and i live in hope he WON'T !! just wait til he gets manager of the month then plunges into two months of chaos !!

Why on earth do you think Buckle is not going to get a play off spot - just have a look at the players he has signed. This is league 2 for christ sake. He is bound to get them in the top seven.

Welcome bornagull, we hope this post will be your first of many. We are a solvent club and i thank them greatly for that but IMO thats it. They have no idea about how to promote or encourage business. They seem to turn everything into an administrative nightmare and they lurch from one debacle to another whether it be about signings, appointments, ticket sales, club shop merchandise, lack of communication the list goes on. But hey, there are positives bornagull and Bucks has gone now. For what its worth, if he doesn't at least get a play off spot at rovers then he may get the sack and i for one do not think he will get a play off spot.

today is my first post on this site and I had to do this just to let off some steam. Standing on the mini and pop sides for the past 40 years I have had to learn alot about patience but this last few weeks has really left a bad taste in my mouth. To be honest I dont think this board could get pi---- in a brewery. Buckle has been taking the micheal for months so come on the board grow a pair.

As an aside, which member was it who had a go.

We offer a happy forum for all here, and members new and old are offered protection from unfairness (unless it's meted out by a red, in which case, you're screwed), so if someone is causing you (of all people) grief, then make mention and the problem will disappear.

SG has been known to eat persistent troublemakers, be warned people!

Matt.

Please don t get me wrong here Teeboo ,in no way do I mean this to come across as me having a pop at you, I do appreciate what you have posted so far.

However you have me slightly confused, not hard I know ,you say, you have some snippets/idea s on signings but because of one poster getting upset you now need to keep your cards close to your chest, then on the other hand you do a thread pleading with Ling to bring some new signings fast.

Teeboo if you feel unable to post player names fair enough I understand that, however is it a case that Ling is not close to signing any forward players? Or the case that he is, and the players concerned are not the quality we need right now?

[quote="brucie"]Lets hope that Ling has not come to the end of his contact book. Mcphee (lives in Torquay so that one was obvious). Saah (lings lovechild) Leadbitter (hmm) Keeper (no idea) Stevens/Oastler (nobody else wanted anyway).
If thats it we are fecked.[/quote]

Not sure about McPhee and Stevens but other than that I am happy with the additions currently. We need quality up front and on the wings and for me another central midfielder though.

ever the optimist brucie however stevens is totally garbage so ile give u that 1

Lets hope that Ling has not come to the end of his contact book. Mcphee (lives in Torquay so that one was obvious). Saah (lings lovechild) Leadbitter (hmm) Keeper (no idea) Stevens/Oastler (nobody else wanted anyway).
If thats it we are fecked.

[quote="GulldenBoy"]Similarly, Ling will want to have a look at our players in pre-season and identify where the weak links are. Remember he even said himself that he hadn't watched us till the Play-off Final.[/quote]

This is a great point - we know the previous manager had his weaknesses, maybe promoting a younger player was one of them? I'd expect Ling to treat the first week or so training as a 'getting-to-know-you' session. Hell, maybe he'll decide the Billy Kee can get us 25 goals and bring in players to support him! (rather than rushing out to find any old striker). For me, the next 10 days are the most important for the coming season; not because of the new faces we'll see, but because some of the players we already have could come to the fore and be better than we'd ever have expected.

I really hope this is true for Danny Stevens

I've been more of an observer recently but I thought it worth pointing out that most clubs and managers like to have a look at all their players in pre-season before considering putting some out on loan.

I wouldn't expect us to get any loan signings for at least another two weeks.

Similarly, Ling will want to have a look at our players in pre-season and identify where the weak links are. Remember he even said himself that he hadn't watched us till the Play-off Final.

Also, with the sale of Zebrowski, there is probably a reassessment of who our targets are going on at the moment considering we have more money to play with.

I think we all need to be a little more patient and see what happens in the next two weeks.

[quote="teeboo100"]I believe in the notion about giving a manager time to sort his contacts build a squad talk to his exsisting players bulid backroom staff ect ect however we need to start signing some bodies .[/quote]

No great surprise if he (Ling) has hit a bit of a wall at this stage with new signings. He is now looking at players who play at the "business end". These are the more creative players, the wingers, the strikers and the goalscorers. I imagine it's far harder trying to bring this type of player into a club like TUFC not least because nearly every club is chasing them and it's also probably true to say that goalscorers and the more creative midfielders are typically amongst the highest, if not the highest, earners in football and so very often they will either have a number of clubs to choose from or will command wages that we simply cannot afford.

I've not doubt he's trying hard and there will be "lots of fingers in lots of pies" but at the end of the day it's not an easy task and never has been to get players to come all the way down here.

Just worried that within 4 or so weeks the season begins and we ain't got any firepower. You would have thought also that anybody who has any semblance of footballing ability who was available this summer would be fixed up by now?