When Do We Expect to Reveal

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Re: When Do We Expect to Reveal

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Last summer we left it very late to bring additions in, and when we did we brought badly.
Well it's the last day of May, and it feels like it did last season.
All my life I've believed you should get your business done early, or you get left with the rubbish no one else wants.

IMO, we should have brought a player or two in during May.
Let's hope the management get into gear real soon, and bring a few quality people in
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Re: When Do We Expect to Reveal

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Don't agree.

Signing the right players is much more important. Because of the 2017 summer people seem to assume that if you sign players late or half-way through pre-season they will be bad and the ones nobody wanted, but I don't think this is the case. Other players could have priced themselves out of moves. or are in contract and available for transfer.

Much prefer that we are patient instead of doing knee-jerk games like with Adams last year, there is plenty of time left and no need to panic.
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Re: When Do We Expect to Reveal

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ComeOnYouOs wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 10:25 am Last summer we left it very late to bring additions in, and when we did we brought badly.
Well it's the last day of May, and it feels like it did last season.
All my life I've believed you should get your business done early, or you get left with the rubbish no one else wants.

IMO, we should have brought a player or two in during May.
Let's hope the management get into gear real soon, and bring a few quality people in
Last summer you also said (partly because of this) that you weren't happy with the way the club was being run. Look how that turned out.

Just be patient. Players are likely on holiday at the moment. There will still be transfer related movement going on behind the scenes. And it's better to wait for the right players and genuine upgrades than just load up with squad filler for the sake of it.
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Re: When Do We Expect to Reveal

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eagwgw wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 10:38 am Don't agree.

Signing the right players is much more important. Because of the 2017 summer people seem to assume that if you sign players late or half-way through pre-season they will be bad and the ones nobody wanted, but I don't think this is the case. Other players could have priced themselves out of moves. or are in contract and available for transfer.

Much prefer that we are patient instead of doing knee-jerk games like with Adams last year, there is plenty of time left and no need to panic.
This is the thing. Players become available as the summer goes on - either as a result of having to lower their expectations or wage demands, or clubs allow contracted players to move if it looks like they will not feature as much as expected in their plans.
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Re: When Do We Expect to Reveal

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Get Adams in now, swallow our pride. We all know what he can do, it’s not a risk.
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Redcard wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 10:40 am Get Adams in now, swallow our pride. We all know what he can do, it’s not a risk.
Sure, we know what he can do at National League level. I wouldn't be anti signing him, as long as he's not the only central midfielder coming in (surely we will sign two).
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Re: When Do We Expect to Reveal

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I'm all for discussions about signings on this board. I must say though that so called good and bad signings don't mean a lot until they actually start playing. In the past we've made loads of signings that looked good on paper but turned out to be rubbish (Jamie Cureton comes to mind).

Some players shine in some teams and not in others. A lot of it is luck with signings.
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Re: When Do We Expect to Reveal

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Why are so many people hell bent on getting Orient players back?
Adams had his day here his decision let’s move on lot more quality players than him the club can look at surely
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Lucky7 wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 11:33 am Why are so many people hell bent on getting Orient players back?
Adams had his day here his decision to leave let’s move on lot more quality players than him the club can look at surely
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Lucky7 wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 11:33 am
Lucky7 wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 11:33 am Why are so many people hell bent on getting Orient players back?
Adams had his day here his decision to leave let’s move on lot more quality players than him the club can look at surely
I wouldn’t be surprised to see him back, although the management might not want to deal with his agent or the player again. Once bitten twice shy and all that.
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ComeOnYouOs wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 10:25 am Last summer we left it very late to bring additions in, and when we did we brought badly.
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So badly Orient only won the league & got to the FA Trophy Final
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spen666 wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 9:02 pm
ComeOnYouOs wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 10:25 am Last summer we left it very late to bring additions in, and when we did we brought badly.
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So badly Orient only won the league & got to the FA Trophy Final
Silly comment. Are you saying we bought well then?
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ComeOnYouOs wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 9:06 pm
spen666 wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 9:02 pm
ComeOnYouOs wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 10:25 am Last summer we left it very late to bring additions in, and when we did we brought badly.
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So badly Orient only won the league & got to the FA Trophy Final
Silly comment. Are you saying we bought well then?

Silly comment?

You mean Orient didn't win the league & got to the Final of the FA Trophy?
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How much better could they have done? Not much, so QED the club had the right players in both numbers and quality.
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Jeez.
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Re: When Do We Expect to Reveal

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ComeOnYouOs wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 10:25 am Last summer we left it very late to bring additions in, and when we did we brought badly.
Well it's the last day of May, and it feels like it did last season.
All my life I've believed you should get your business done early, or you get left with the rubbish no one else wants.

IMO, we should have brought a player or two in during May.
Let's hope the management get into gear real soon, and bring a few quality people in
Did you hear that we won promotion and got to a cup final or where you to busy with your head stuck in a pot noodle

Every club has 1 or 2 signings that don’t quite hit the mark
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Of course we had a brillIant season but it has to be recognised that Alabi and Gorman didn’t contribute as much as we would have liked leaving it to others to carry the load. But of course not every signing will work out and on balance results suggest we got it right more than we got it wrong. Given our results it’s hard not to trust Ling and Edinburgh to get it mostly right.

Patience. It will happen.
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spen666 wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 9:02 pm
ComeOnYouOs wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 10:25 am Last summer we left it very late to bring additions in, and when we did we brought badly.
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So badly Orient only won the league & got to the FA Trophy Final
With neither of our two last Summer sigings even in the squad.
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dOh Nut wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 10:00 pm Of course we had a brillIant season but it has to be recognised that Alabi and Gorman didn’t contribute as much as we would have liked leaving it to others to carry the load. But of course not every signing will work out and on balance results suggest we got it right more than we got it wrong. Given our results it’s hard not to trust Ling and Edinburgh to get it mostly right.

Patience. It will happen.
Style of play needs to change.
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Why? Are you suggesting we change the style to fit Alabi in?
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Thor wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 11:24 pm Why? Are you suggesting we change the style to fit Alabi in?
Or Gorman.
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Lucky7 wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 9:48 pm
ComeOnYouOs wrote: Fri May 31, 2019 10:25 am Last summer we left it very late to bring additions in, and when we did we brought badly.
Well it's the last day of May, and it feels like it did last season.
All my life I've believed you should get your business done early, or you get left with the rubbish no one else wants.

IMO, we should have brought a player or two in during May.
Let's hope the management get into gear real soon, and bring a few quality people in
Did you hear that we won promotion and got to a cup final or where you to busy with your head stuck in a pot noodle

Every club has 1 or 2 signings that don’t quite hit the mark
None of our signings last summer worked out.
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Fortunately our business mid season - Turley, JWMD - was much more successful. Although not so much Simpson.
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Any updates
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Off The Hook wrote: Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:28 am Any updates
Yes

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Can you get him a new username please cos it keeps fooling me, never mind anyone else.
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