A very welcome new signing - right back on loan from WBA till January. Straight into the team at Northampton. Turner tried to get him earlier in the season but he went to Blackpool. Interesting comments on the website from Turner about Goldson and Grandison being our centre back partnership for the future. Hope he's right about that as they're both excellent young players. Meanwhile, welcome James Hurst.
bit of an enigma Hurst, he started his career with a lot of promise and all the top clubs were after his signature, but it now seems to be very much on the slide, hopefully he can do a job for us at this level, but really at 19 he should have been going on to bigger and better things. another thing that seems to wrangle with me, is, are we getting too many 'young' loanee's in, for all our failings we run a very steady tight ship and players are starting to come back from injury, i just hope we still have the bond there to keep it all together.
welcome james hurst, floreat salopia, and welcome to the club's 4th international, the mere mention of 4 internationals must have the cobblers asking for a change of underwear. floreat salopia!
Lets make it quite clear here, he's very young and he has only played three football league games after his short exile to IBV(Iceland) who's ground only holds 1500 very cold Inuits, 12 penguins and 4 seals...then packed off to us, to go straight into the first team!!...either GT knows something we don't know, or is Roland saving on the Penny's again, but at this very crucial time when we need to keep pushing for promotion and striving for a good cup run, we really need an experienced defender who can cope with burly centre forwards of this division..not some lad who's only claim to fame is playing International football with a bunch of kids!!.....sorry not happy, it shows lack of ambition!!....what happened to the money from our last cup run...remember Arsenal..
There's nothing wrong with a a good footballer who's 19. How old was Rooney when he played against Town? If the Hurst plays well enough and GT thinks he's good we will sign him, if WBA don't want him, which I doubt.
i believe in the old maxim, if you are good enough to play for your country, you are emminently suitable to play for your club. give the lad a chance, instant downers normally attract mirth. as for penguins on iceland, is tinned hats leading an expo to find them, if so he may be there for some time and we may lose the pleasure of his remarks on here for a bit. please let us know when you have spotted any sea lions or walrus. uncle graham appears to have found a gem. to be fair to tinned hats and to cut short his expo he may want to ask the iceland co-op for a packet of pengins!. give the lad a chance and see you in march tinned hats on your return
let us get this straight. pin your ears back and listen. uncle rowland and his board are running a most successful business. one of the offshoots is a highly successful footbal club, high flying with a mixture of loanees cheap signings and youth. graham turner is doing wonders with a most useful squad hindered by several injuries. the main part of the clubs business is the profitable operation of the stadium. all income, gates, cup runs, summer concerts and tv money goes into the coffers to pay for the successful stadium and its upkeep, not cheap, yes some money goes to graham to spend from time to time on a good player. it should be realised the successfull running of the stadium is as important as a successful football squad unless you want to be a plymouth etc, so well done to rowland and the board for running a successful business which promotes an excellent football squad run by probably the best league 2 manager. time for a celebratory glass of port rowland. 3 cheers for such a successful club and business. rowland if you are reading this load of pony and trap, change that ruddy awful popart badge, town,s bit of bad luck. 3 loggerheads and a hearty floreat salopia!
Atcham, I must take issue with you when you say we are a succesful football club as well as a successful business. If we were a successful football club we would not have been languishing in the lowest tier of the League for over a decade. Many clubs with less resources than ours have got out of this division and remained financially stable so that tells me we are not doing everything right. Finally, with Turner's return , we have our best hope for many years of getting out of League 2 in a way that is sustainable for the long term. I, like many Town fans, will be at Northampton today to cheer them on but our patience is not without its limits and we expect the Board to back our excellent manager with some cash in January to get us over the line for automatic promotion.
sorry greenhousmeadowman but shrewsbury town are a most successful club finishing regularly in the top 10, it is only the clubs badge, that ruddy awful popart badge that holds us back as it will do until our traditional badge is returned. if we cannot see that after 4 years we must br myopic. rowland and the board need spec savers
Why ignore the Conference season? We haven't been languishing here for over a decade, we've been lower! But we came straight back, so where we are now is a big step ahead of where we were less than a decade ago. And I hope the board don't go spending in January. The squad we have can get us promoted - thought it before the 7-2 and that win only emphasises it. If and when we go up, I want us to stay there - look where Wycombe and Chesterfield are now. We've got a great mix of experience and talented young players and we play some great football at times. We don't need to draft in some expensive grizzled veterans now. Give the current lads their chance.
the conference season was well before popart badges. i am referring to the last 4 years where town have been nearly men. next may town will go up in spite of its badge not because of it. until then the board are running a super profitable business. long may it continue. if we win promotion i am sure there may be money to keep us there.
i must admit AJ i just don't understand your argument at all, its been a long,long time since we have been in the now league 1, and given our set up here we should be plying our trade in the Championship, we are perhaps a successful business,and cash rich to boot, but by no means are we a successful club, in-fact if anybody who has been starved of success for such a long time..its us!...hanging about in the top ten of the lowest football league does not constitute a successful club in my book..the fact that we have also induced good crowds over the decade tells me that the bank of cash we do have goes more into corporate than team building!!,..never mind, i suspect you will be first in the cue for next years Elton John concert
the argument is simple, town have won nothing in the last 4 years because of that ruddy awful popart badge. we should have gone up last season, but a linesman put us in the play offs, we got to wembley twice previously. was it all bad luck, town were not good enough, or was towns bad luck that ruddy awful badge. i have been consistant over 4 years that town will never win anything with that ruddy awful badge. yes i know its boring but i believe it. now what will go wrong for town this season. in the meantime rowland and his fellow directors are running a most successful business and club. no thanks to elton, yes please to status quo, and no lenny the lions please. 3 loggerheads and a floreat salopia
i entirely agree with you tinned hats, it has only been 4 years of bad luck so far. the longer this goes on the stronger my case will become. but the board has the answer in their hands. shrewsbury town f c will never win anything with that ruddy awful popart lenny the lion badge!!. floreat salopia and 3 loggerheads. in the meantime rowland is running a most successful business and uncle graham is doing a brilliant job with the squad
