Very disappointed and angry, whats the point ??

Can I just point out that without loan signing Elliot Anderson we'd still be in League two.

Good op and title.

Remember what recently happened when we sold Lambo and JCH, our best players, and never replaced them?

Just saying...

Collins hasn't been our best player this season and we won on Saturday without him. He needs to be replaced long term, but short term we have replaced him with loans. You never know, we might end up signing some of those loans for next season if they do well.

We signed Thomas, Connolly and Taylor after they did well on loan and we brought back Bogarde, although he didn't do that will this time.

Most clubs do this. Plymouth won the league last season with a lot of loan players. They signed two of them on permanents and brought another back on loan again. They turned down a high bid from Lazio for one of them a few days a go!

It's hard to say if we are stronger or weaker after this window, until we see the players play.

That recruitment team are taking a team predicted to be relegated into one that is playing some of most exciting football in the NL and currently sit in the playoff zone. In the summer they also recruited a lad for peanuts from the 8th tier and sold him on for relatively big money to City in the 2nd tier. Doing a wonderful job.

Great squad for National League level then. It was the polar opposite at League One level.

Yes but there are also contrary examples. I was thrilled week in and week out by Barry Hayles, whilst he was still here we signed a young forward who hardly got game time and looked a poor imitation. We were forced to sell Hayles by the colour of Fulham’s money and that young forward stepped up to eventually be worth as much as Hayles was in the transfer market. That was Jason Roberts and I have no doubt that having Hayles and Ipoua about cramped his style. Not saying the circumstances are exactly the same but maybe now we might see Jevani Brown step up to the plate.

Another disappointing departure was Gary Penrice. I thought that might stall our promotion push but we signed a Stoke reserve being stifled at right back and gave him a role that suited him better…Carl Saunders, who is to say that Vaughan or Aguilera might make a similar impact in their time here? You never know what is round the corner.

If MT is the right appointment he may get this assorted band of experienced pros and youthful loanees singing from the same hymn sheet and we might see some decent football from now until the end of the season.

I don’t think it’s anything to do with Taylor, cos from what I’ve seen & heard so far he’s probably the right man for the job, currently; I just don’t believe the new owners have any kind of coherent plan to take us onward and upward. They may well be great at sorting out real estate, but I don’t think they have the first idea about running a football club in the EFL.

Henbury just makes it up to suit the agenda, I'd just ignore whatever he posts.

The nature of the league means loans are inevitable. Every team in the league has at least 4 (according to this www.transfermarkt.co.uk/league-one/leihspieler/wettbewerb/GB3/saison_id/2023/leihe/war/plus/1).

As long as there are no funky clauses it makes sense to bolster your team with players from the league above.

I don't get the outrage. I agree having permanent players is preferable but 2 of our longest serving players (Finley and Evans) have gone through a yearly cycle of being written off then eulogised since they've been here. So in 6 months time disappointment and anger will probably be hope and excitement. Then of course next January you'll have gone full circle back to anger.