Steve Bone

I think the manager wants to make an immediate improvement to what we've got.

I think he sees the need for that because of some of the struggles we've had in the first half of the season.

I was interested to read a bit from him a day or two ago in which he said they've now got the long list down to a short list.

And I started to read on and he said, yeah, we've got it down to four or five players.

And I thought that was going to be a full stop there.

He's four or five players for every position.

That doesn't seem to be a very short list to me.

That's about 36 players or something.

Yeah, yeah.

That's a lot of players that, I mean, I wonder how long the long list was before that.

You know, did they have 10 players for every position who they wrote down?

I suppose there are some that, you know, you start with a long list and you can soon strike some off, can't you?

You know, some of them have been non-starters for different reasons.

But it's interesting that even now, you know, what, are we two weeks away from January the 1st, pretty much, as we speak, a bit more than that.

and that there are still that many potential targets.

And again they're saying what you'd expect them to say, don't expect us to sign six players on the 1st of January, it's going to be a

a slow burner of a month, we have to wait, bide our time, see who's available, cross off the ones that become unavailable, add a couple of new ones who come onto the radar.

I think they know they need a strong January window.

If you take last Saturday's win against Blackburn out of it, before that we were panicking a bit, weren't we?

We were thinking, how on earth is this squad going to stay up?