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Boredom at work has led me to peruse the PFA transfer list for some centre-halves. How about one of this lot for us?

John Johnson - ex of Northampton
Reece Brown - ex Man Utd trainee
Chris Hogg - ex of Hibs/Caley Thistle
Miguel Comminges - ex of Stevenage
Mark Hughes - former Everton trainee last at Bury
Leon Johnson - ex Wycombe
Simon Ford - been around, mostly at Kilmarnock/Chesterfield
Mat Mitchel-King - last seen at AFCW
Nathan Stanton - northener

Mark Hughes seems good, tall at 6"4 and Knilly will be able to use his Bury contacts to find out about him..

Hughes or Reece Brown would both do us well.

John Johnson is the one I had just spotted, can play CB or RB and has 4 full seasons at this level under his belt, still only 24!

Jordan Robertson has been released from Yeovil for Fitness reasons. This may be a good thing for us, if we can spend the time to get him fit we may have a great player on our hands. Pre season will do him the world of good with us, hope he comes on trial with us.

exiledgull wrote:Jordan Robertson has been released from Yeovil for Fitness reasons. This may be a good thing for us, if we can spend the time to get him fit we may have a great player on our hands. Pre season will do him the world of good with us, hope he comes on trial with us.

Yes, I see this is what Gary Johnson had to say about him ...

“Unfortunately Jordan would have taken us a little while to get him anywhere near a level of fitness for us. Again, we haven’t got that time. I’ve got to have 20 people ready to play in the first team.


Albeit Johnson is looking at putting together a side fit for the Championship, it would suggest that Robertson is a long way off the fitness levels required for the pro game, which is understandable given that he missed the whole of last season through injury and indeed given that he is now 25 he has really not played much football at all in his career to date.... less than 60 starts and still short of 100 appearances in all competitions ... the sort of numbers which some kids barely out of their teens can very often attain.

Sounds like he has a lot of catching up to do! Perhaps AK can be the man to get him back to where he once was ....

No harm in a trial and a few pre season friendlies.
It's not like we have too many strikers on our books is it!

I don't know anything about John Johnson but seems to fit the bill.

exiledgull wrote:Jordan Robertson has been released from Yeovil for Fitness reasons. This may be a good thing for us, if we can spend the time to get him fit we may have a great player on our hands. Pre season will do him the world of good with us, hope he comes on trial with us.

Given his lack of football in the last 12 months I think we will be needing another striker too. Maybe an invitation to train with us for a month or two, prove some fitness with the offer of a contract to the end of the season at a later date.

exiledgull wrote:I don't know anything about John Johnson but seems to fit the bill.

Former Boro player, I believe. Don't thinks he's adequate for a CB role, certainly not for 1st choice.

Still think Robertson is a viable option. Gary Johnson is in the enviable position of having a high-performing, settled squad - he doesn't need passengers. We, on the other hand and despite what people think, are a small club who sometimes have to take a gamble. Sometimes its a young untried player, sometimes a foreigner, sometimes a player with an injury record. Picking up players with less than 100% fitness didn't work out too badly with Jason Fowler, Steve Woods, Brian McGlinchey to name a few

Robertson has got class, so I say get him in and give him a trial. The only way he'll get fit is with regular full time training, so if he can show off his ability it could be a gamble worth taking.

Definitely have a look at him. From what Gary Johnson says it doesn't sound like he's going to be playing a professional game soon but he definitely has the ability to be at least League Two. And as Jeff says, these are the types of players we tend to have to 'take a gamble' on. People forget that Rene Howe had a fairly bad reputation before joining us. Brizzle fans loved to see the back of him and he never scored as regularly for anyone else as he did for us. Give Jordan Robertson a go, turn his career around, notch a few goals, move to a bigger team.. DONE.

stevegull wrote:Definitely have a look at him. From what Gary Johnson says it doesn't sound like he's going to be playing a professional game soon but he definitely has the ability to be at least League Two. And as Jeff says, these are the types of players we tend to have to 'take a gamble' on. People forget that Rene Howe had a fairly bad reputation before joining us. Brizzle fans loved to see the back of him and he never scored as regularly for anyone else as he did for us. Give Jordan Robertson a go, turn his career around, notch a few goals, move to a bigger team.. DONE.

On a free transfer :devil:

How about former Newcastle trainee Aaron Spear as a striker from overseas? Born in Plymouth, currently playing for ÍB Vestmannaeyja in Iceland with a contract until October this year.

Richard Taundry ...George Bowerman?

Don't know much about Bowerman but Taundry I'd like to see. I know he mainly played at right or left back but can he play in centre mid too?