Poke to sign on loan for a year!

I keep checking the Yeovil site too, as they are due to tie up a keeper signing from a Championship club

I was told on Saturday that the delay is at the Southampton end. Apparently Rupert Lowe is doing everything and slowing it all down. With the Saints signing Forecast from Spurs I am hoping that the deal is a permanent one.

The delay and the signing of the lad from spurs to saints must surely mean a permant deal for Poke. I hope so, hopefully we'll know soon. Poke in goal tomorrow night at Newton would be nice to see.

He isn't yet listed on the official Saints site...........I wasn't aware that the "lad from Spurs" hadn't yet signed for the Saints...................who would have forecast it!

Dave Thomas, writes in todays Herald Express, that the delay over Poke Joining us, is all about sorting out the recall clause.

My information was correct about the fact that the club, were trying to sort out Poke coming here on a contract as our player. It was never said to me that Poke was demanding £3000 per a week and that would not be a realistic fugue to demand, playing for a BSP team. It was clear there were certain people involved with the negotiations, who were causing the holds ups.

If Dave Thomas is now correct, it is clear that those talks have all broken down and If Poke comes it may well be only on a season long loan, with recall clauses built in. I really do not think that if that was the case, it would be the best for the club and team.

One can't fault P.Buckle who has put so much time and work, trying to secure Pokes services, but one must ask, if in the end that time has been well spent and If other keepers have been talked too.

My understanding was that there was a keeper from Donny Rovers and one other, who the club may have talked to, it may now be the time, to pursue those possibility's with a bit more vigor, as surly we need to have a first choice keeper here, under contract.

Poke is a good keeper, who is still learning, but I would not be to happy If the deal, is now only going to be a loan, It would be just our luck, that he would get recalled, at a time where results, could be very crucial. It would also be a concern, that we would then be down to having just Rice, who as much as we really would like him to prove us all wrong, Is never going to inspire the fans, or his team mates.

Why we always seem to be in these situations with keepers, I do not know, but as I had said, the Poke deal could only happen when Raynor had been moved on. It seems that the real details over Poke were not sorted, or in place, when Raynor finally went. One would have felt, that there should have been enough time before that happened, to have got everything nailed down.

Not good really for a team, who many feel will be up the top and making a real challenge for promotion, to be starting the season, with a loan goal keeper, who could be gone at a moments notice.

I would agree that being forth choice, would reduce the risk on him getting recalled, but as he would not be our player, he could ask for Southampton, to take him back, if for arguments sake, he started having problems say with Buckle(It has been known for Manager and keeper to fall out).

It would be different if we was under contract as one would hope, that if that happened, it would be sorted out far better than it was last season. I know that such a problem would probably never happen, but Poke going back to Southampton, could not just depend, on Southampton, needing him for the first team.

That is also a very good reason crispygull, why a loan deal, is not what we should be looking for. It may well be the case now, with the strart of the season, nearly on top of us, that having Poke on loan, is what we may have to start with.

I would really hope that there is one or two other keepers, the club, will try and get here under contract, before the season starts, I think Poke is a good promising keeper, but we all know from past experiences, that just having a player on loan, can end up costly.