New Players for Div 2.

Two very successful seasons, the envy of many BSP clubs.
A Wembley cup final, and the play offs in his first managerial position and promotion in only his second season.
We at long last have a club board and management structure we can all be proud of and still the ridiculous "lucky Buckle" comments keep coming.
All your comments Dave are so easy to state in hindsight and you tend to forget that he had to build a team from virtually nothing, get them playing to his style and tactics in a little more than a month. If you ask me he isn't lucky as you put it he's a bloody miracle worker.
You suggest the players he brought in in last seasons Jan transfer window were not up to it well you must have knowledge that there were better ones available in our budget and willing to come here in the middle of winter when all decent players were playing regularly at there respective clubs.
We are fortunate to have a manager of Buckles calibre In "all" departments. Believe me you will eventually get your chance to slag him off eventually when he does depart, as we all know nothing is forever he will leave because of lack of success or will be poached as successful and ambtious managers often are and you will desrev a Richard Hancox as a replacement.
You should be enjoying the moment they are very very rare.

Gk - Bevan or Poke (Happy with that)
Defence - Mansell, Todd, Robertson, Nicholson. (Happy with that)
Midfield - Maybe need a new Cm because Hargreaves is surely to old to play week in week out. I would like him to stay here though as abit of a squad player.
Strikers - Sills and one other. Possibly Benyon or Green but I would like to see a new striker with a little bit more quality.

So I'd say we need a quality central Midfielder and a quality Striker and I'd be very happy with that. Any Suggestions? I see Millwall have just released 10 players

I'd imagine that PB is feeling like a kid in the sweet shop at the moment as the current climate will be raining players upon him. I hope he sits on his hands and takes his time to strengthen areas and not necessarily take the best player who is available under our budget.

But first, I hope he takes a critical look at the our fringe players and gently nudge them to another BSP team. When the squad is lean with quality, desire and potential; then it is time to go out and make it special enough to avoid a relegation scrap for the next season.

Anyway, does anyone know anything at all? I'm just getting too excited and impatient!!

Keep, get (IMO) or already kept; rest get rid of/sell/whatever -

GK - Bevan (think Poke will find himself something permanent - I hope for him anyway)

Def - Robertson, Nicho, Todd, Ellis (RB required)

Mid - Manse, Wroe, Carlisle, Greavsie, Carayol, Stevens (CM required, although I fancy Carlisle there believe it or not)

Att - Sills, Benyon.

That's it, 13, who've I forgot?

Rob, if we were to get Fleetwood and Reason I think that would be a clear statement from PB that he doesn't intend to just consolidate next season. Altho i could be reading too much into it, as usual!? Would be a boost for the fans as well and put more bums on seats.

If his performance that day was a true reflection of his ability, I'd build a team around him.

Yes some very good view points have been expressed on this thread and I would just like to put my take on a few of the points that have been made.

At this time Bucks really is our hero as he is the man who picked the team, picked the players and got them do what was required to get the team back into the football league.

Not to do so would have seen our club fast becoming an established BSP team and as I have said before, one that might well have become a much smaller club and seen many less fans paying at the gate.

Was Bucks lucky? Not really but no matter what you do some luck often plays a part and I do feel as I know many do, that he has had his fare share and I'm glad he did as who would want a manager who never got any luck.

We all have at times in our life's, made the wrong decision and got lucky as we suffered no real consequence for making the wrong choice, others will make the same mistake and find they have had a large price to pay.

Bucks in my view did make some wrong decisions and I'm not going to say getting rid of Woods was one of then, but it does not mean because we went up decisions like the Woods one were correct. I'm sure merse will say if you get the required result at the end of the day, then all decisions taken along the way had to be the correct ones, but I do not subscribe to such views.

You can make a decision and it will be the case it may come down to walking on a fine line and you could fall either side, Bucks so far has so many times fell on the right side and that is why I feel some feel he is lucky.

Yes Leroy has been long gone, but I do despair that some want to keep on making out he was just a crap manager and did not have a clue what he was doing. He gave us one of our best footballing seasons ever and took a team up that so nearly went down the season before.

I have never before or since seem any manager who was shown such a show of real affection and respect by TUFC fans at Plainmoor during that great season and I wish I could read what Merse was writing on forums when all that was happening.

Your are correct merse when you say what happened the last time we went up won't happen now we have this wonderful board, Leroy did not have the luxury I'm afraid.

He started with a much weaker team and there was not the sort of money offered to him to spend that would have attracted players of first division standard. Its rather silly to say once he lost all the best players it all feel apart, what would you expect to happen.

Without the quality players and unable to bring in suitable replacements no manager would be able to turn that team into a promotion team, put Ferguson in charge of a prem team with very low income, no chance to sign the top players and see if he can win the title again next year.

Before the start of last season its true we only had four players, but due to the backing Bucks got he was able to sign players that soon had other clubs fans claiming that we were a rich club.

City fans were moaning like hell as TUFC down the road were bring in players who had a good name in the BSP and so many other clubs would have liked to have even been able to afford to sign them. That is the real difference between the situation Bucks is in compared to Leroy.

I never agreed with him moving back to Bristol, but I was told he was under a lot of pressure from his wife who was unhappy living here and she wanted to move back home. It really should not have made that much difference anyway as its only an hour and a half drive.

We will never know if Leroy could have done as well as Bucks has, if he got the same backing, but he fully deserves all the praise he is due for giving us what in my view was the best ever season of quality football at Plainmoor.

Most know that in football you are a hero one minute and a villain the next, Bucks can go on and become a cult figure with TUFC fans and that is what I hope for him, but he as we all should be aware, knows that being on the crest of a wave and staying there can be two different things.

Get things wrong next season and many fans will forget the season before, Leroy found that out the hard way, one day a man who fans bowed too and only one season later one who's head was demanded.

Are you on some kind of commission or are you their agent? ;D