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I said it at the time and I stand by it now. We overdid it in January. Disrupted the balance of the squad too much, arrogantly beginning preparation for life in the Championship with 20 odd games to go.

Berry we probably bought as one for the future, even if we did pay reportedly 600k. The longer he doesn’t play the rustier he gets and a viscous cycle begins. The mystical Danes is a whole different story. Uprooting them from their homeland and then not playing must be so hard and confusing for them. Anders will have to be special to dislodge any of the 3 centre halves we have now and Westergaard similarly with Simons now looking the part.

The weird thing being that a tricky wide player who knows where the goal is but is only good for the last ten / fifteen is probably exactly what we need. If he had come on in the last 4 or 5 games and scored two or three goals that could have been rewarded with some very useful extra points.

The Berry signing is as if someone has done a filter on goals in league 2 from wingers and picked him out.

But not noticed he averaged about 43mins a game over the season and was barely a starter for the last xx months

I suppose the problem is the first 3 picks are probably 3 from McCleary, Kone, Fred, Lubala, then you have Udoh and Kodua.

So it's hard to get in over any of those 6 right now and can you have 4 attackers on a bench of 7 without over stacking it?

I can't remember who said it, but it feels like it's essential not to drop behind them. Although there's still plenty of games to go, it feels like we've been in the top 2 all season, so even being 3rd for a week will be a mental kick.

However, Simons is on board, Kone is back, and Doddsy is getting more of a grip of what he's picked up week by week.

Huge game at the weekend, but it's not a "freebie" like some keep saying, as if we lose it and Wrexham win, we're suddenly equal for the first time I can remember in months.

@AlanCecil Thanks Alan. Urgh, yeah I meant Scott Mitchell. I had realised I needed to correct it and then completely forgot to!

Was always a long shot to hope the worst form team in the division could hold Wrexham off.

But we all knew yesterday was costly, hence all the emotional scuffling.

If you look at a Brighton or Brentford who we are probably trying to copy at some level they can sign a load of prospects, loan them out, let them adjust for a year or longer and probably sell them at a profit even if they don't make the first team. That is almost separate to what is going on in the first team but in each window they will have a raft of prospects to promote and usually a hefty profit from others that did work out better and moved on.

Wether we have the desire to do that I'm not sure but the first team does need some help sooner rather than later if we don't want promotion hopes to fade away. Some of the onus has to be on the players as well though, I suspect if any of them were so good in training that they were embarrassing their colleagues they'd be in to the team sharpish.

Anders is 28, Magnus 26. We haven’t signed prospects.

And Berry has now not signed since Christmas so the next barrier will be ‘needing minutes’.

There are brighter people than me involved in spending £2million as i simply don’t get it.