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13 hours ago, 3spirit said:

George Wells -I'd have him back at Slough in an instant. He isn't as bad defensively as you say he is.Although, I think he likes bombing forward. I think he is likely to get picked up by a title challenging team in our division like Havant but it would be great if he did come back to us. If he doesn't I think Dan Wishart could be among Slough's recruits,as he played for Wealdstone so would know Scott Davies, and last season was at Hemel and would be looking for a club nearby-ish.   

George Wells would be a major coup for us but he'd need to take a big drop on his wage expectations.

Dan Wishart would look on the surface to be a decent experienced signing but not staying at any club for very long and not being wanted by Hemel following his loan period would be a concern.

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10 hours ago, Reading Rebel said:

5 goals in 29 appearances in a side that made the play-offs would be a major concern if Elliott Benyon was our mystery striker.

True but it's as many as Ben Harris got for Slough last season.

I'm looking at it in a different way.Slough need an experienced steady head, up front,who can lead the line,hold the ball up and can bring others into his play. He needs to be less annoying to referees[than Ben H.] and be a fresh face in our squad,well respected and someone young strikers can learn from. Elliot Benyon fits that criteria and may be able to add a few more goals to his tally this season, if he does sign for Slough, being that he may be more of the focus point here than he would have been at Oxford City. He also fits to the brief that he wouldn't be overly expensive for the Rebels to sign.

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24 minutes ago, Reading Rebel said:

George Wells would be a major coup for us but he'd need to take a big drop on his wage expectations.

Dan Wishart would be a decent experienced signing but not staying at any club for very long and not being wanted by Hemel following his loan period would be a concern.

If George Wells came back to play for Slough,we'd all be chuffed with his signing but it does seem unlikely at this current time for him, and our team.

Dan Wishart may not be the best left back Slough could recruit but he has been around our level for awhile and is well known, and would be familiar to Northy and Scott Davies and possibly, Matt Lench, being that he was at Wealdstone. As our managers are good man managers [and also don't stand for too much shenanigans] they might be able to get more out of Wishart than others have, besides nothing says our signings have to be long term fixes. That often depends on the player and what he is able to bring to the table, in the way of behaviour,temperament and ability.

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14 minutes ago, 3spirit said:

True but it's as many as Ben Harris got for Slough last season.

I'm looking at it in a different way.Slough need an experienced steady head, up front,who can lead the line,hold the ball up and can bring others into his play. He needs to be less annoying to referees[than Ben H.] and be a fresh face in our squad,well respected and someone young strikers can learn from. Elliot Benyon fits that criteria and may be able to add a few more goals to his tally this season, if he does sign for Slough, being that he may be more of the focus point here than he would have been at Oxford City. He also fits to the brief that he wouldn't be overly expensive for the Rebels to sign.

Yes, but Ben Harris was probably never 100% fit for most of the season so not a true comparison when it comes to the number of goals scored.

Agree with your point on him being an experienced steady head up front that our youngsters can learn from which can only be a plus point.

Still doesn't get away from the point that we need an experienced striker who can score us 15/20 goals and I don't see Elliott Benyon doing that. 

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12 minutes ago, Reading Rebel said:

Yes, but Ben Harris was probably never 100% fit for most of the season so not a true comparison when it comes to the number of goals scored.

Agree with your point on him being an experienced steady head up front that our youngsters can learn from which can only be a plus point.

Still doesn't get away from the point that we need an experienced striker who can score us 15/20 goals and I don't see Elliott Benyon doing that. 

I find the comment about a 15-20 goal striker an interesting one. It goes without saying that all fans, and managers, want that for their club but it’s almost impossible to guarantee that with any player unless you are paying top top money.

Did you realise across the 21 teams last season only TEN players scored 15 goals or more! And of those players 6 are already going to be playing a higher level next season.

I could probably list another 10 players earning vast sums of money last season who did not reach the 15 goal mark.

Our policy will remain to sign players who want to play for Slough, who will do so for the right reasons and who will give everything for the club.

 

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Just now, Reading Rebel said:

Yes, but Ben Harris was probably never 100% fit for most of the season so not a true comparison when it comes to the number of goals scored.

Agree with your point on him being an experienced steady head up front that our youngsters can learn from which can only be a plus point.

Still doesn't get away from the point that we need an experienced striker who can score us 15/20 goals and I don't see Elliott Benyon doing that. 

I can't see Elliot Benyon scoring 15 to 20 goals either.  10 to 12 goals [is a hope and realistic], if it is him we've lined up?

Our team will need goals from all areas, if we only add Benyon and Dobbo to our attacking reinforcements but I'm sure these two won't be our only recruits in this department.

Reading Rebel,I know you said you thought Elliot Buchanan was past his best but imagine if we could recruit him and say a loanee striker from Oxford United. Our front line would have goals in it.     

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For an undisclosed fee and some add ons Hungerford Town have signed 23 year old Leighton Thomas from Paulton Rovers who was top scorer in the Southern League Division One South with 27 goals last season.

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8 minutes ago, GlenSTFC said:

All of Hungerford’s signings have been from lower level clubs. Was Seager out of contract or did they receive a nice fee from Dorking?

I don't know about Ryan Seager but Danny Robinson the manager at Hungerford seems quite shrewd in the signings he has made so far. He's actually acquired players from lower divisions, in a way that I thought Slough would be doing this season [without the fees] but of course, Slough have yet to show their hand on recruitment.

It does look, though, that clubs in the Conference South are divided by those with pots of money that are able to recruit from the National League and above ie Dartford, Havant etc, those who can afford to buy established 'stars' of our division and recruit top players from this league and the best from below ie Hemel,Bath City etc and those clubs who are having to shop around for bargains and up and comers ie Slough, Hampton etc.

In this regard,it appears on the surface that locally Hemel, Oxford City,Hungerford and Farnborough have stolen a march over Slough but Hampton seem to be in the same sort of grouping as our club.

The good thing for both Slough and Hampton is we have 'proven managers' who know how to build squads, in fact I would say it's their forte'.  I don't see Slough or Hampton needing huge changes for the start of the season, as both squads have a central core of good enough players for this league but both teams do need adding to. At Slough it's likely to evolve over the season with what works and what doesn't, invoving the new recruits and our ever present incumbents and under 23's.   

 

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5 hours ago, Jon Underwood said:

I find the comment about a 15-20 goal striker an interesting one. It goes without saying that all fans, and managers, want that for their club but it’s almost impossible to guarantee that with any player unless you are paying top top money.

Did you realise across the 21 teams last season only TEN players scored 15 goals or more! And of those players 6 are already going to be playing a higher level next season.

I could probably list another 10 players earning vast sums of money last season who did not reach the 15 goal mark.

Our policy will remain to sign players who want to play for Slough, who will do so for the right reasons and who will give everything for the club.

 

I was probably being a bit overly optimistic, lets go for 10 to 15 then ?

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16 hours ago, Reading Rebel said:

That's a great shame.

If affordable I thought Poku would have a been a great fit for our midfield especially if Kuhl departs.

Though,different type players.

As much as I like Godfrey Poku,he was never going to come to Slough this season and to me it might be better for our team not to have him yet,given he's been out injured for a while. He's a definite talent and a real powerhouse in midfield, so hopefully he will play for Slough in the near future before he's past it.

I hope Slough play Hemel away early[and I'm sure George Hunt, Scott Davies and co do] before he get's up to speed! ha ha!........crunch !

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3 hours ago, 3spirit said:

I don't know about Ryan Seager but Danny Robinson the manager at Hungerford seems quite shrewd in the signings he has made so far. He's actually acquired players from lower divisions, in a way that I thought Slough would be doing this season [without the fees] but of course, Slough have yet to show their hand on recruitment.

It does look, though, that clubs in the Conference South are divided by those with pots of money that are able to recruit from the National League and above ie Dartford, Havant etc, those who can afford to buy established 'stars' of our division and recruit top players from this league and the best from below ie Hemel,Bath City etc and those clubs who are having to shop around for bargains and up and comers ie Slough, Hampton etc.

In this regard,it appears on the surface that locally Hemel, Oxford City,Hungerford and Farnborough have stolen a march over Slough but Hampton seem to be in the same sort of grouping as our club.

The good thing for both Slough and Hampton is we have 'proven managers' who know how to build squads, in fact I would say it's their forte'.  I don't see Slough or Hampton needing huge changes for the start of the season, as both squads have a central core of good enough players for this league but both teams do need adding to. At Slough it's likely to evolve over the season with what works and what doesn't, invoving the new recruits and our ever present incumbents and under 23's.   

 

It's a big step up for players coming from lower divisions so only time will tell if Danny Robinson has made some shrewd signings.

 

 

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5 minutes ago, 3spirit said:

Though,different type players.

As much as I like Godfrey Poku,he was never going to come to Slough this season and to me it might be better for our team not to have him yet,given he's been out injured for a while. He's a definite talent and a real powerhouse in midfield, so hopefully he will play for Slough in the near future before he's past it.

I hope Slough play Hemel away early[and I'm sure George Hunt, Scott Davies and co do] before he get's up to speed! ha ha!........crunch !

Never going to come to us because we couldn't afford him?

Completely different type of player and apart from possibly Lee Togwell we have nothing similar to Poku.

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6 hours ago, Jon Underwood said:

I find the comment about a 15-20 goal striker an interesting one. It goes without saying that all fans, and managers, want that for their club but it’s almost impossible to guarantee that with any player unless you are paying top top money.

Did you realise across the 21 teams last season only TEN players scored 15 goals or more! And of those players 6 are already going to be playing a higher level next season.

I could probably list another 10 players earning vast sums of money last season who did not reach the 15 goal mark.

Our policy will remain to sign players who want to play for Slough, who will do so for the right reasons and who will give everything for the club.

 

Jon, I take it you are referring to the teams in the Conference South, as there are lots of players in the divisions below [proven or otherwise]that have scored 15 goals or more.

That's why at the end of last season on this forum I was mentioning players like Nathan Minhas at Beaconsfield and James Ewington at Harrow Borough because they're scoring goals at lesser clubs[no disrespect meant] that Slough might be able to come by, that wouldn't break the bank and could take a chance on. It looks like Hungerford are going to monopolize this route.  

 

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25 minutes ago, Reading Rebel said:

It's a big step up for players coming from lower divisions so only time will tell if Danny Robinson has made some shrewd signings.

 

 

Well, he has been clever with his signings since arriving at Hungerford fc. I don't know if all the players he signs this time around will come up to scratch but I don't know that about any of the managers in this division, including our own ! However,if I was a betting man I think he will get more right than he doesn't.

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