Who opened the door? My money is on Janus! 2024 January transfer thread.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Not always easy to follow Marc's deadline scribbles.

TBC it’s Dan Barnes typing during conference - so yeah, it all needs sense-checking

Jeez - poor Dan. I get it but I mean he’s probably scraping a living the poor bloke!

I wish him all the best. To quote Les McQueen, it’s a shit business

[DJBlu]

So Santos has a tear and will get two weeks off at least to try and recover. Eoin is playing through an unnamed injury that isn’t tendinopathy and Forrester returns to training tomorrow.

Talk about a mixed bag of news. But overall doesn’t seem as bad as maybe we might have feared. Two centre halves carrying injuries through run in though I guess has promoted move for Taylor.

It's known in the world as not too bad news.

[KeyserSoze]

New signing imminent. Also how do you embed videos again? dsb explained to me what changed a while back but in my haze I have forgotten.

[DJBlu]

New signing imminent. Also how do you embed videos again? dsb explained to me what changed a while back but in my haze I have forgotten.

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[brommers95]

I’d be very happy if we do get Caleb Taylor on loan (ignoring the fact it probably means either Rico or Eoin are out injured)

He’s very similar in playing style and physical attributes to Toal to be honest. Tall and gangly but deceptively strong and quick. Much like Toal, Taylor isn’t terrible on the ball but it’s an area of improvement for him.

Now we know santos is out who gets central berth? Toal or Taylor?

Good question, I'd assume Toal as he's the more senior player, knows the system etc. Taylor probably more comfortable as the outside CB in a three for now as that's where he spent the majority of his time at Cheltenham, splitting his time between both RCB and LCB.

[The_Gun]

I’d be very happy if we do get Caleb Taylor on loan (ignoring the fact it probably means either Rico or Eoin are out injured)

He’s very similar in playing style and physical attributes to Toal to be honest. Tall and gangly but deceptively strong and quick. Much like Toal, Taylor isn’t terrible on the ball but it’s an area of improvement for him.

Now we know santos is out who gets central berth? Toal or Taylor?

Must be Toal, right? I don't think they'd stick a newbie straight into the central role, which in our system is more important and complex than the wide CBs.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Now we know santos is out who gets central berth? Toal or Taylor?

Partly depends whether we trust the youngster and partly whether CCB or RCB is better for Toal’s injury. RCB is busier but CCB as last man requires more sudden sprints, I’d say

[BWFC_Insane]

I’d be very happy if we do get Caleb Taylor on loan (ignoring the fact it probably means either Rico or Eoin are out injured)

He’s very similar in playing style and physical attributes to Toal to be honest. Tall and gangly but deceptively strong and quick. Much like Toal, Taylor isn’t terrible on the ball but it’s an area of improvement for him.

Now we know santos is out who gets central berth? Toal or Taylor?

Good question, I'd assume Toal as he's the more senior player, knows the system etc. Taylor probably more comfortable as the outside CB in a three for now as that's where he spent the majority of his time at Cheltenham, splitting his time between both RCB and LCB.

Ta that sounds ideal.

[GhostoftheBok]

[DJBlu]

What's the benefit of doubt on this lad then?

2 weeks then we can say thank feck Rico is back? Or how does Rico get back in?

I can hear it now......

Welcome to the mad house Caleb!

[GhostoftheBok]

Look at that neck. When that kid heads a football it stays headed.

[truewhite15]

Could be better, could be worse. Losing Rico for any length of time is a blow - he's one of the best in this league. But giving him a couple of weeks to recover (is that two weeks from Tuesday gone, or two weeks from now) should hopefully mitigate.

Similarly, not great that we're potentially asking Toal to play with a minor injury, but needs must. Just hope it doesn't go ping.

Great that Forrester is on the way back though. He's impressed me. And I see no reason he couldn't cover the central defender role, as well as the wide centre back.

[GhostoftheBok]

Could be better, could be worse. Losing Rico for any length of time is a blow - he's one of the best in this league.

It might weirdly be a good thing. It's forced them to act and they've done so in a very cost-effective manner. It could be that 2 weeks from now we're a lot stronger than we'd otherwise have been.

Obviously if it ends up needing surgery that goes out of the window.

[DJBlu]

Look at that neck. When that kid heads a football it stays headed.

Another wide necked header being....

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[Dave Sutton's barnet]

New signing imminent. Also how do you embed videos again? dsb explained to me what changed a while back but in my haze I have forgotten.

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Just above the post. Past the url between the tags. If it's twitter then ensure there is nothing after the numbers https://twitter.com
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If it’s a tweet, make sure it says “twitter.com” not “x.com” - and if there’s a question mark in the URL, remove that and everything after it.

[GhostoftheBok]

Taylor's actually mixed race.

His mum's white and his dad is a Brachiosaurus.

[BWFC_Insane]

Iles has posted that Taylor will play centrally while Rico is out but can then play either of the wide berths - according to IE!

[DJBlu]

Could be better, could be worse. Losing Rico for any length of time is a blow - he's one of the best in this league. But giving him a couple of weeks to recover (is that two weeks from Tuesday gone, or two weeks from now) should hopefully mitigate.

Similarly, not great that we're potentially asking Toal to play with a minor injury, but needs must. Just hope it doesn't go ping.

Great that Forrester is on the way back though. He's impressed me. And I see no reason he couldn't cover the central defender role, as well as the wide centre back.

The phrase is "Riding the storm".

In two weeks we could potentially be top with 2 games in hand and the following defenders to choose from

Jones, Iredale, Santos, JDC, Forrester, Taylor, Toal, Ashworth, Ogbeta and Ramsay.

No Cup distractions. Will it be enough? Who knows but it's probably going to be one fecking ride!

COYWM!!!!

[Spartan2]

So is that our business done or are we still in the market?

[GhostoftheBok]

So is that our business done or are we still in the market?

You almost hope it's business done. We are full, so any more means another knock we've not heard about.