theAnticlough

It's not a good sign that I'd forgotten about Conor Grant when thinking about Notts and how we still need to replace Crowley. He's still got 2 years on his contract and maybe we'll start to see better from him this season - he certainly has ability. But I don't like how some games seem to overwhelm him and he stops being a factor, kind of disappears. Quite a few of our players need to play with more aggression and assertiveness. Let's see if Paterson and unlock this much more than Maynard ever did.

Cheers fellow Pies, thanks for the welcome (I didn't know there were posts like this til I logged on for the first time a few mins ago :) ) Hoping for a great season at the Lane and on here. COYP

The signing reminds me a bit of the Cameron to St. Johnstone loan. A club decides to move on from a player with one more year to go on the contract, and if all goes to plan the player sees out the last year and hits free agency at the new club. Barnsley want to contend for promotion to the Championship so are being pretty ruthless. I hope he's one of those players that excels when given a new start. If so, we might have a L2 promotion-level player to add to the other half dozen or so we have.