Every trialist so far

[jpark17]

New video with a brief look at every trialist so far!
youtu.be/AjliBfv5lEE

[Nick]

Thanks JP.
My God, that was a depressing review.
An honest and very fair analysis of around a dozen trialists including 2 keepers.
Talk about under-whelming.
One midfielder (Conor Kelly) at the end of your review who sounds very decent and another couple who may just about make it as squad players.
I think your enthusiasm extended as far as saying you wouldn't be against them signing.
Wow !
Tbh not much end product for a huge amount of time, effort and belief in recruiting players from a very large trialist pool.
No keeper comes out of it either.
A genuine analysis of which player have been tried with some good research to back it up.
I've only seen 2 matches to date and have not exactly been blown over with what the un-named players have delivered.
This review though really bangs some nails in.

[Dan]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear !

[Rob]

Well you can't shoot the messenger.
JP sums it up he sees it as well as checking out players history.
Pretty unimpressive and I don't mean the review.

[Stonethecrow]

Can't disagree with the post from what I have seen.
In fairness I think the saving grace is that our signed players are mostly a class above the trialists.
However, given the club's apparent strategy to fill up the squad with trialists, then it seems, well, disappointing.

[jackster]

The video was a bit of a horror.

Well put together but tbh, not exactly uplifting..

Maybe a couple of recruits from the trialists but it feels like we are short of some quality signings.

[Harry]

Not a good listen for the amber tinted members.

[Raymondo316]

Very good video, it's nice to finally know who these players are.

When the owners and manager said we would focus on signing quality, and you look at these trialists, you know things haven't gone to plan with our recruitment.

We better hope players trialling for clubs in the league above who didn't meet the grade want to sign for us.

[Dickie]

Absolutely in the money Raymondo.

A great video, well researched and put together.

But it doesn't portray the recruitment process in a geat light.

Perhaps it does explain why so few trialists have been offered contracts.

[deadly]

Well done JP.
Quality job.
Pity I can'tsay the same about the club's recruitment initiative with trialists.
Few are far between.

[Andy]

Blimey, this video lifts the lid on the trialists alright.
Sounds they have been a prety poor bunch with a couple of exceptions.
Thank goodness George managed to retain some important players and then recruited another 3/4 of known quality.
Relying on filling some largish gaps in the squad by trialing so many players with a very modest cv was a real gamble.
It hasn't worked and the league season is nearly on us.

[Terry]

Damning video of the trialists tbh.

So many of them looked ordinary on paper and equally ordinary in practice.

Waste of time ?

But we do have a goodish looking squad with quality players even without a single trialist signing.

Just looks thin on numbers.

[regentstone]

Interesting article on one of the trialist's
www.isthmian.co.uk/football-and-me-the-ogo-obi-story-61767

[holysmokes66]

Great video as always! Appreciate all the effort trying to track down all of these niche players (and successfully doing so!)

Conor Kelly is one we should definitely sign. Appears to have exclusively played college football in America and still young at 22!

I stumbled across a highlights package of his 'best bits' here:

[daveu]

Jul 27, 2023 20:30:02 GMT holysmokes66 said:

Great video as always! Appreciate all the effort trying to track down all of these niche players (and successfully doing so!)

Conor Kelly is one we should definitely sign. Appears to have exclusively played college football in America and still young at 22!

I stumbled across a highlights package of his 'best bits' here:

He definitely impressed on Tuesday