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24 minutes ago, valeparklife said:

Rhys Browne signed on a one year deal.

Good options out wide. One of the first time in years we've had 4+ wingers in the squad.

Gives us 7 players for the front 3 preferred by Askey excluding Whitfield. I'm guessing if Whitfield leaves he'd exchange him for an additional midfield player. 

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1 hour ago, mikey said:

elsewhere, Chris Eagles has signed for Oldham today. He's 33 now so it'll be intersting to see if he has anything left.

His age isn't the issue, it's the fact he's been without a club for over a year

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My latest pre season assessment...
Very similar defence and midfield to last season.
Both without much depth and reliant on either being injury free, or squad players doing a job.
Attack has much more variety and pace.
Susceptible to injury and, again, this may be pivotal.
If it goes really well, we might trouble the top 10.
If it goes really badly, it might be a little close to the edge.
So 14th.
 

 

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My latest pre season assessment...
Very similar defence and midfield to last season.
Both without much depth and reliant on either being injury free, or squad players doing a job.
Attack has much more variety and pace.
Susceptible to injury and, again, this may be pivotal.
If it goes really well, we might trouble the top 10.
If it goes really badly, it might be a little close to the edge.
So 14th.
 
 

That’s a sensible and fair summary
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The D3D4 podcast league 2 predictions came out today.

 

They have Vale in 18th. To summarise what they said, vale have a very good spine, talk about players like brown and pope being essential to our success. Transfer business OK but no one they could get excited about. Biggest moves have been the removal of smurf and the three year contract for askey who they see as a great manager.

 

Think it was a very fair and well rounded assessment, I'd snap you hand off for 18th in all honesty

 

 

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22 minutes ago, Walka003 said:

The D3D4 podcast league 2 predictions came out today.

 

They have Vale in 18th. To summarise what they said, vale have a very good spine, talk about players like brown and pope being essential to our success. Transfer business OK but no one they could get excited about. Biggest moves have been the removal of smurf and the three year contract for askey who they see as a great manager.

 

Think it was a very fair and well rounded assessment, I'd snap you hand off for 18th in all honesty

 

 

The Racing Post pre-season pull out came out this morning and they also have us 18th. They make the point that we were the lowest scorers in the entire league last season and Bennett and Cullen won't suddenly turn 39 into 69. They miss the point about having a new manager who might actually encourage the players to shoot prior to 60 minutes of a match and the fact we've signed some wingers but hard to argue with an 'outsiders' view that we'll be solid enough to not get dragged into a scrap at the bottom but not good enough to trouble the teams at the top.

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I think the difference between 18th and, say, 13th is a bit of extra resilience, the ability to nick goals at important times against the run of play, and to be able to nip a poor run in the bud by grinding out a win before things snowball. League Two is all about individual battles so if you can improve a few per cent here and there, start edging battles all over the pitch instead of being edged out of them, it can all add up.

You never know, we might even have some wriggle room in the January window.

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