Transfer Activity

I just wish that Bucks had spent the Brough money/contract on another onion man.

We have a much better team feel to the squad this year which is very important but Bucks did seem to have a turn and go out and buy up a lot of midfielders/CB!!

He did indeed, one is now proving to be one of our best defenders, one is proving to be one of our best midfield players and one has proved he can play a good role in behind Sills when Bucks want the team to play that formation. Two are yet to really feature but they sure can come in and do a job

I think Buckle was wrong to take Green off on Friday. He was a threat with his strength, hold up play and pace. He is a good partner for Sills, and I much prefer Green to Benyon. Benyon still isn't strong enough for me, and he can't hold the ball up that well, in my opinion.

my opinion god forbid is with Paul Parker

D'sane was the one to take off anybody could have scored the goal in the position he was in .

Sills,Green and Benyon the extreme force

Eddy

Not really sure whether to post this on the "Phillips in - Beavon out?" or the "Where's the passion" themed threads, but here goes.....

With regards to the levels of success that our team and strike-force has to date this season and also looking ahead, it is clear that we have recently not put the ball in the net as often as we would hope (or expect!). I would think that most people who have watched the matches would agree. How that is resolved is the real question that is going to have most supporters having different perspectives....

I don't see myself as a defeatest, more of a realist. As we are 18 points behind Burton, who seem to be showing little sign of slowing-up - surely only some significant disruption to their regular starting line-up will give anyone else a chance of getting those ponts back? In some ways, that takes the immediate pressure off us (although obviously not to the extent we can afford to slip-out of the play-offs).
We seemed to be really under pressure this time last season and the disappointment of missing-out on automatic promtion didn't really hit the players until we were defeated by Aldershot in such a dramatic fashion.
I think being in this position still gives us a margain for error that we wouldn't have if we were 6 /8 points from the top. A draw at Wrexham isn't a disaster by any means, we don't feel it as much if we were snapping on the heels of Burton.

Bucks last season made an offer for Jamie Mackie at Exeter City - at the time I was very pleased that a move for a goal-shy striker didn't succeed (at that point he had scored since NYD and it was then August). The City fans seemed to agree that he "did everything but score", but Tisdale kept faith in , Mackie kept working hard - suddenly it all "clicked" and he went on a blistering run that kick-started Exeter's push for promotion.
I believe that Green is really just waiting to expode - his work-rate recently has been immense (after a false-start to his TUFC career), he clearly has ability and his confidence his starting to return.
I find myself frustrated with Green (like I do with Wroe when he "goes missing" on occaisions), but he is a young player with a potential ability to succeed at a higher level and he's proven that he can score goals with Oxford and I think that I've been unfair in my judgements at times. Bucks clearly believes in Green and the recent performances on Green show huge improvement in stamina and strength shows just how much work has been done to get him up to first-team standard.

I have absolute faith in Bucks to get the players to provide optimum team performances - that's based on the improvement made from the summer to date and the performances that I feel are just lacking in the penalty box at times. At this stage last season we were 6 points behind rather than 18, but I feel that we have nothing to fear from the other teams - we can beat all of them on our day.
The next few months is the time that we need to see the levels of performance continue to improve with the play-offs in mind.

If there were to be any additional players coming-in (and I don't believe that there will be), it has to be a player that can come-in to this team and hold-down a starting line-up. Plummer might have been sensible given that there were doubts over the fitness of Carayol and Dsane, but I couldn't see him ever be a partner to Sills and scoring goals in the team ahead of Benyon or Green at this stage of his career.
I've not seen enough of Beavon to say whether I think he is the answer, but our crowds have been dreadful and I can't see how we can contemplate sustaining the level of wage we have at the moment without off-loading players, let alone adding to the wage-bill...... Unless an unmissable opportunity comes-up to sign a proven striker that Bucks believes will be the answer our goalscoring problems than I think we should keep absolute faith in Benyon and Green.