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brucie wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 21:56 Errrr Bawling has a long dark history..............................of playing at a higher level than where we are now. Oh woe is me every other club has already built a promotion winning squad and its only June 4th.

brucie wrote: ↑04 Jun 2018, 21:56 Errrr Bawling has a long dark history..............................of playing at a higher level than where we are now. Oh woe is me every other club has already built a promotion winning squad and its only June 4th.

sgf wrote: ↑05 Jun 2018, 01:05 Some of these postings are bordering on hysterical.

Unless I'm mistaken our squad was sorted pretty early last season and we still ended up with an ice cream maker, two with heart defects, a one armed goal keeper with the reserve keeper barely out of puberty

Richinns wrote: ↑05 Jun 2018, 16:09 5th of June. Contract offers expired (supposedly) on the 1st. Nothing from the club about this. No new players announced for three weeks (come tomorrow). 6 players on the books (only 4 of them wanted). Owers planning for this season started before the end of the last. Good times.

CP Gull wrote: ↑05 Jun 2018, 16:39 Yes, I think it is concerning that there has been so little movement. I get what people are saying about .... its only the first week in June .... but the reality is that it’s probably less than four weeks now until the players return to pre season training, and five weeks today that the pre season friendlies start.

All the talk at the end of April, before the season had even ended, was that there was already a lot of planning being done, players identified and even talk of “cash bids” being made to clubs for players .... that was 6 weeks or more ago and we have seen nothing of any significance since, bar the signing of just the one “new” player.

The fact that FOUR of the SIX existing players who were offered “generous” (or so I have been told) terms to stay with us have still not signed up yet is even more cause for concern. The “deadline” for them committing has passed and yet we have still heard nothing from the club - of course, there may be a reason for that, the club understandably doesnt want to bring up bad news during a period when it is trying to sell season tickets - but its surely looking increasingly likely that none of these players wants to stay. Of course from the players concerned point of view, until such time as they have a “better” offer elsewhere they would more than likely be happy to “string the club along”for as long as it takes - but Owers and Harrop need to take a firm line on this. After all, what is the point of setting a deadline if you don’t adhere to it!!!

My concern though is that he (Owers) has through his own choice, left himself a really big rebuilding job to do. We need to sign, as a minimum, ideally something like a dozen players or more, to be able to put out any sort of team in five weeks time - at the moment that looks like a very tall order - and the silence from the club is deafening!!!!

Owers has put his reputation on the line, his contacts are supposedly extensive and he has now got the opportunity to put together his squad, which is what he has asked he be judged by all along - well with just four players in the building (plus two he has made clear he doesnt want) he has got an awful lot of work to do! I just hope that he can genuinely secure the targets that he wants and that we don’t end up going through the whole of pre season with a team stuffed full of hopeful trialists!

Cruisinho wrote: ↑05 Jun 2018, 21:53 Exeter have announced their retained list. Any chance of the released being interested in coming here? I see Ryan Brunt is among them....