Couldn't agree more! 10 days to go until our first game of the season and were still using triallists is mental. We need a squad that's starting to gel. I am worried about the first 10 games.

You keep up to date with the pre seasons of every other club in the country?? I don't see the harm in it, think i'm correct in saying it doesn't cost anything, never know what you might find. You wouldn't say its ridiculous if we sign one and they become player of the season.

Kosokko sells fireworks to underage kids in the New Addington area.

Ukay works on the tills at Asda but has been known to show a nifty turn of pace at goals on a Wednesday night where he plays for Inter My-nan.

Rosa was either one of the obscure signings we made in the Goldberg era or the black woman who refused to get up for a white woman on a bus in America, I can't remember.

Unfortunately with the wage structure we're working under, this is the best we can hope for.

If something can't be described in plain English, maybe you shouldn't base an entire society on it. Just saying.

remember we hadn't heard of parr before he joined (unless you avidly follow norwegian football, who doesn't?) and he was Player of the Season last year. Agreed, they should have played in earlier trials but the trialists aren't the issue, it's if they're good enough getting them in, which isn't happening. Ramage and Baxter, both frees, could have been done weeks ago.

We just signed Ramage as cover RB andCB. Why more RB cover?

I was stretching for an example. He was a make weight in a deal for our prolific striker, and hadn't really set the world alight at Brum. No one actually expected him to be a legend at Palace who'd set the back of the net alight.

At some point everyone is an unknown, and when you're talking about players from overseas who play in the lower leagues its likely no one has heard of them before.

Take Fonte for example, how many people would have been saying he'd be playing in the premiership when we got him on loan. I'd never heard of him before he was playing for us.

When Derry and Hill left for QPR no one thought they'd be part of their premiership season, let alone become key first team players that season.

Ambrose was a player who'd barely scored for Charlton, he moves two miles down the road, and scores more in seven games (almost) than he did in three seasons at the caravan club.

Probably the only signing we've made in very recent years that felt like it was a 'steal or sure thing' was Moxey.

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