Adam Long now confirmed

[Sammy Chung was King]

It would be ideal if it was Anderson in there with Long or Olowu partnering him. It doesn’t seem it’s going to be that way at the minute, so experience will need to be gained together as a young partnership. That is unless the manager sees it as Ro-Shaun plus one.

 We need organisation back there. The full backs need to stop the crosses coming in. The midfield needs to protect them better. The strikers need to do there job in closing down. It’s a team thing, close down as a team as we have been trying to develop in pre season.

[ravenrover]

The left back certainly did a good job of stopping the crosses and no one has mentioned his back post goal line clearance 1st half

[Jonathan]

The left back certainly did a good job of stopping the crosses and no one has mentioned his back post goal line clearance 1st half

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I did mention in the other thread that he dealt with balls into / across the box well. He looked like he’d been well schooled as a left back. I don’t like to get too carried away by pre-season trialists but he looks a good one. We need a left back and we’d have to go and get someone pretty impressive to make a better impression than Maxwell did.

[Sammy Chung was King]

He needs to be signed before others show interest, it would be a kick in the teeth, to lose him now.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

We might already have done. Same with Tomlin. Looks like GMs vid about Long was done at the same time as the prematch interview on Friday? But they chose to release it today.

[Alan Southstand]

I particularly liked the way all the team warmed to him, particularly when he headed that goal bound effort off the line, in the first half.

I think the lad has made an impression. Now for the important bit - getting him over the line!

(That’s not to detract from any of the other triallists, Ayo, Tomlin and Hurst particularly). All good what we saw of them.

[Sammy Chung was King]

It wouldn’t surprise me if some are done already. Staggering them out to bring more publicity in and interest. It’s showing a bit of intelligence. With transfers the spouting off you do, the less chance you have that they will sign. Nice and quiet and methodical that’s the way to do transfer business.

[roversdude]

The Hurst scenario shows the difference between last season and this - we were signing loanees based on video clips