"Good afternoon.
This morning I spoke to a number of players regarding their future at our club.
Clearly, changes need to be made as we have not won enough points and to be honest, I'm fed up of hearing we played well and that it was a good performance, only to draw.
Kyel Reid, Marc-Antoine Fortune and Zavon Hines all live down in London and it's best for them and for us to find clubs in the London area. I am not going into further details as to why I've had to make this decision.
Shwan Jalal has been made available for loan. Now he's fit and well, he needs to be out playing first-team football.
Joe Anyon is already available on a free transfer or loan.
Michael Nelson has also been made available on a free transfer or loan.
Now Robbie Weir is fit following his injury, he's also available on a free transfer or loan.
We need to strengthen this team and we will.
Take care,
Martin"
Brave move especially in the run up to playing Salford (is snow forecast?) but, I don't understand why Zavon and Lee Shaw never appear in the same team and twist and turn the opposition a bit, why we signed Kyel Reid and Fortune if they didn't really want to be part of things, why Jalal isn't playing, or on the bench if he is fit ...........
I just think the importance of the position is in the name, and GOAL KEEPER, says it all - he is absolutely central. We haven't had one since Tommy Lee got injured before Bradford away, and we made the dopey decision to release Aaron Chapman and play an injured Tommy one more time. Fulton can't find a game in Scotland, Ramsdale did quite well, showed promise, but he didn't have the authority of being OUR keeper, and Burton is decent too, but suffers the same identity problem. Your keeper has to be a big presence. I thought that was what the very experienced Jalal was about, but he's hardly played ............ We need a keeper for our defence to rely upon, like you'd get a driving midfielder to organise the push forward and protect the defence too, like you'd want your centre forward to direct your attack once you get the ball up there.
Dear Martin - sign us a proper dominant fckin goalie and start from there. You're releasing one of your most consistently threatening players in Zavon Hines, you know that don't you? I'd suggest you try Dover for a swap, and we get Mitch Brundle in return. Add to your list of ditched players loanee Hayden Hollis and sign Ryan Astles from Southport the very second Tranmere knock them out of the cup. And if you've a contract free do whatever you need to do to bring in Matty Kosylo from Halifax, who wants to play higher, but is never going to do that at The Shay, which looks more like Desolation Row than ever. And you might even get Ricky German back. He's scored 18 goals while he was away and he missed two of the last three games, was only sub on Saturday, but got an assist.
This morning I spoke to a number of players regarding their future at our club.
Clearly, changes need to be made as we have not won enough points and to be honest, I'm fed up of hearing we played well and that it was a good performance, only to draw.
Kyel Reid, Marc-Antoine Fortune and Zavon Hines all live down in London and it's best for them and for us to find clubs in the London area. I am not going into further details as to why I've had to make this decision.
Shwan Jalal has been made available for loan. Now he's fit and well, he needs to be out playing first-team football.
Joe Anyon is already available on a free transfer or loan.
Michael Nelson has also been made available on a free transfer or loan.
Now Robbie Weir is fit following his injury, he's also available on a free transfer or loan.
We need to strengthen this team and we will.
Take care,
Martin"
Brave move especially in the run up to playing Salford (is snow forecast?) but, I don't understand why Zavon and Lee Shaw never appear in the same team and twist and turn the opposition a bit, why we signed Kyel Reid and Fortune if they didn't really want to be part of things, why Jalal isn't playing, or on the bench if he is fit ...........
I just think the importance of the position is in the name, and GOAL KEEPER, says it all - he is absolutely central. We haven't had one since Tommy Lee got injured before Bradford away, and we made the dopey decision to release Aaron Chapman and play an injured Tommy one more time. Fulton can't find a game in Scotland, Ramsdale did quite well, showed promise, but he didn't have the authority of being OUR keeper, and Burton is decent too, but suffers the same identity problem. Your keeper has to be a big presence. I thought that was what the very experienced Jalal was about, but he's hardly played ............ We need a keeper for our defence to rely upon, like you'd get a driving midfielder to organise the push forward and protect the defence too, like you'd want your centre forward to direct your attack once you get the ball up there.
Dear Martin - sign us a proper dominant fckin goalie and start from there. You're releasing one of your most consistently threatening players in Zavon Hines, you know that don't you? I'd suggest you try Dover for a swap, and we get Mitch Brundle in return. Add to your list of ditched players loanee Hayden Hollis and sign Ryan Astles from Southport the very second Tranmere knock them out of the cup. And if you've a contract free do whatever you need to do to bring in Matty Kosylo from Halifax, who wants to play higher, but is never going to do that at The Shay, which looks more like Desolation Row than ever. And you might even get Ricky German back. He's scored 18 goals while he was away and he missed two of the last three games, was only sub on Saturday, but got an assist.