[theo_luddite]

Only £250K too - maybe we should cash those medals in.

[Lord Snooty]

Ex Blackpool and Preston keeper Chris Maxwell in on a 2 year contract.

He's the one who saved Mooy's penalty only for Big Collin Quaner to pop the rebound home.

[Lord Snooty]

Bilokopic gone to Peterborough. Not on loan. Gone on a proper transfer.

[theo_luddite]

Head of Player Recruitment Emyr Humphreys has quit (picked up on DATM).

Although he's been at Town for 9 years according to his LinkedIn post (no sign of this in Town's Latest News pages), he can only have been in the job for 12-13 months as Josh Marsh left to go to Swansea last June from the same or similarly titled position.

Either the new brooms are having a clean sweep or there's something else going on that's unsettling a lot of backroom staff, and that eventually rattles it's way down to pitch level, no matter what anyone else says, whether it's good or bad.

[WakeyTerrier]

It's needed, a clean sweep of the decks. Clear out the rubbish and start from scratch

[Lord Snooty]

Tyreece Simpson gone to Northampton for the season.

[WakeyTerrier]

Terrier inbound*

Got a text late last night to say someone had a medical yesterday so expect something be announced in the next day or two

*providing they passed the medical but that's never stopped us signing players before

[Devongone]

As an outsider I was amazed to see how many players you had, so I'm sure there has to be a slimming-down as well as re-building process, but it does need to be carried out thoughtfully. Maybe the changes behind the scenes are making this process more random than it ought to be?

For instance, Camara may have been keen to leave, but the fact that Udinese came in to get him should give you pause of thought. They try to maintain a place in the top half of Serie A by buying young players at bargain prices, who can perform at the required level and are then likely to sold on quite profitably. To me Camara looked like a player with real promise, but you've extracted little value from him on field and have now let him go for peanuts.

Tyreece Simpson's loan looks like a potential nutcase move. He's going down just one division to a club not much worse than you, playing only to a slightly lower standard. They think he might do them a job. I think of Plymouth last season. Swansea loaned them Morgan Whittaker who immediately became one the division's stars, whilst Swansea pursued a determined road to nowhere. Similarly Norwich loaned them Bali Mumba, who made the EFL1's team of the season having played throughout in its best team. Meanwhile Norwich were refusing to cash in on their most saleable asset, for whom he would have been an ideal replacement, and watching the promotion race from afar. If Simpson is capable of staying fit and doing well at Northampton, then surely he'd have been able to do the same for you and you'll have wasted a season proving it?

Interestingly both Norwich and Swansea have now confirmed their stubborn assessment of those players by selling them to Plymouth.

Sometimes re-building can all too easily become synonymous with demolition. Even your young Australian giant keeper has gone. The Posh wasted no time in snapping up a potential bargain, that's how they too fight above their weight. Is the very ordinary Chris Maxwell coming in any sort of good news, or just another signpost on the confusing road that might just be going nowhere?

I hope prospects are a bit less bleak for you than they look form way outside. Saving you last season took one form of near-genius. Setting you up to avoid a similar struggle might be an even greater task. I do hope not.

[WakeyTerrier]

Tom Edwards, Right back from Stoke.

Nope, I've never heard of him either.

[theo_luddite]

Why am I not surprised by the Smoke-on-Stench connection (or the fact that he's regularly crocked)?

It looks like Stoke (maybe) signed him to a longer than they should have contract at some point (several tbh) and would love to get him off their books. (4 years, 2017, another 4 years 2018 and another 4½ years to the Summer of 2024 since 2019?).

Wonder who was at Stoke and is now at Town when some of that long contracts thingy happened? He appears to have played more times for them in the Prima Donna League than almost at any time in the Championship since (if I'm reading the stats correctly). He has been at Smoke since he was 11, after making the long trek north from Stafford Town.

At the moment I'm not sure quite which side of whelmed I am at this signing, but I'm leaning to the under side. He was competing with (Tommy) Smiffy for a place after Smiffy joined Smoke from us. Maybe he played a few games in the Chumpionship before Smiffy took his place back.

Colin says he fits the bill.
Apparently he can tackle a bit and launch a long ball out from the back, so perfik then.
Have to ask does he also come from the Stoke City school of long throwers, given we recently sold our 'Normanton Messi' master of that dark art to Both Ends?
Just asking for a 6'19" lad that might play up front for us if he gets the chance.