Are we back to the Bateson days of recruitment?

[cambgull]

Oh, the irony. In a conversation about improper use of the English language, a request is made for a smiley to better illustrate a point.

Bill Shake-a-spear would be turning in his grave.

[Dave]

I made the request for the use of a smiley, but don't get the irony as I did not at any time enter into a conversation on the proper or improper use of the English language. The point was simple which Hector got, so need to labour the point, heading the O/P with the. Are we back to the Bateson days of recruitment? Does not suggest this was meant to be tongue in cheek, clearly by the replies. Sticking a cheeky grin in there, fair say most would have got it.

[AustrianAndyGull]

The thing I find a little weird is the furore on here aimed at the board in the delay in appointing Martin Ling after Buckle had left. The main issue was that fans were unhappy that our pre-season plans had ALREADY been delayed due to the play off final and then Buckle decided to jump ship causing a further delay until we appointed Ling in the middle of June. Some fans were claiming we were missing out on players and other clubs were already doing business for next season and we were well behind in preparations given the fact that Ling also had to settle in too. ( As a side issue this highlights what an amazing job Ling did in his first season getting us to the play offs despite his anti-football approach. I happen to think it was his style of football that got him the boot rather than his ability but that's gone).

Anyway now we are approaching the same period (middle of June) as when Ling was appointed and yet we still haven't done any business. I'm sure Knill is working tirelessly behind the scenes to get players in but as we as a club are highly likely to be offering deals to players who now have been released then should we have expected a signing or two already? I'm not criticising anyone here, I know Knill will get us a decent squad together and I have total faith in him but we're halfway through the close season and we haven't had any news yet. I know a few of you are a little anxious about the lack of activity in the market given that Oastler was signed in June 2011 as was Leadbitter and Poke, Jarvis was signed at the end of May last year and I just wondered if you feel that we will have flurry of signings in the first week in July when contracts expire? When Ling signed Olejnik for example, his contract ran out on 30th of June and he was signed on the 1st of July as was Saah so Ling really didn't waste much time in bringing in quite a few players.