Gas vs Scunthorpe matchday thread

I have often wondered about Sinclair's impact. Great bloke though he is, is it coincidence that both last year and the previous year he has had an injury and we have then gone on runs which have led to our promotion? Lawrence, although has a glittering past, is just that I think, past playing at this level. If he isn't good enough for Shrewsbury in this league, (and he is a year older, and somewhat injury prone)what, if any impact is he going to make? I think Mansell has been brilliant for us, and I am an admirer of his, but he is no spring chicken and I think he can at best be relied to shore up a defence late in a game. so, I think we need another midfielder.
Meanwhile at the back, I do worry about Mc Crystal at this level, most of the forwards are bloody quick at this level and lets face it, he is not. So another CB for me as well.
Also, as you go higher and higher up the leagues you find that the strikers are quicker and MORE ACCURATE in their finishing. I think Taylor will be ok and Gaffney is just lacking confidence, hence why he passed when he could have lashed it. But I would argue that Eliot isn't either quick enough, or accurate enough.
Then there are one or two others that will struggle to get a game, Gosling for instance wasn't impressed with him last season and I probably wont be this season either. If he plays of course

Having a loyal band of footballers is great, and having a loyal manager is also great, but at the end of the day no one must let their loyalty cloud their vision on what this club has, and what it needs.

Yep, bit odd isnt it. I completely accept evolution not revolution but to evolve you need to buy some better players??

He's only here cos no one else wanted him!

We have been way behind everyone else in the transfer market this summer which when you think we've just gone up into a higher league is somewhat surprising as we needed to strengthens more than other clubs. Now we are being left fishing in a much smaller pond for the next fortnight, unless we want to pay fees that is!

Yeah, that was our first mistake.

... in your opinion, not everyone's.

I'm struggling to remember a post by chippenhamgas that wasn't some sort of moan about something. Not saying such a post doesn't exist, just seems to be few and far between. Perhaps lighten up a little bit? We've won back-to-back promotions and kept our manager and top scorer over the summer. If that doesn't show ambition beyond anything we've seen here before, then I don't know what will! We don't have to spend millions to show intent, I'd say those 2 signings are already the best we could possibly have made.

Anyone who thinks they've got a grasp on football and also thinks that more than half our squad are good enough for league one football needs to have a word with themselves.