Cheltenham FC

They have signed three players today

Experienced defender or holding midfielder Pablo Mills has joined Cheltenham Town on loan from Bury until the end of the season:

And these two

Matt Sparrow and Shaun Harrad have arrived on loan until the end of the season from Scunthorpe United and Notts County respectively.

Tgwu wrote:

They have signed three players today

Experienced defender or holding midfielder Pablo Mills has joined Cheltenham Town on loan from Bury until the end of the season:

And these two

Matt Sparrow and Shaun Harrad have arrived on loan until the end of the season from Scunthorpe United and Notts County respectively.

I am going to the Cheltenham Town match, will be interesting to see what these three are like against Argyle.

Getting tight at the bottom

Get bigger pants!

Wasnt so long ago they where pushing for promotion and had a good squad.

Cheltenham have never had a strong squad. Nor have they ever had a very big one. Their model is to very much stay within their means, recruit young players at low cost, recruit all players on short contracts and hopefully sell them on at a profit. They then bulk up the backbone of a team with loanees from one of their more well-heeled "rivals" such as Swindon or Bristol City or one of the Birmingham teams.

Every now and then they cobble together a reasonable 1st XI, avoid injuries and suspensions and get themselves in or near a promotion spot and occasionally they go up. Such is their lot that once up they are unable to compete for players either in number, length of contract or size of contract and they go back down again - for them it isn't a matter of if but when.

Sir Francis Drake wrote:

Cheltenham have never had a strong squad. Nor have they ever had a very big one. Their model is to very much stay within their means, recruit young players at low cost, recruit all players on short contracts and hopefully sell them on at a profit. They then bulk up the backbone of a team with loanees from one of their more well-heeled "rivals" such as Swindon or Bristol City or one of the Birmingham teams.

Every now and then they cobble together a reasonable 1st XI, avoid injuries and suspensions and get themselves in or near a promotion spot and occasionally they go up. Such is their lot that once up they are unable to compete for players either in number, length of contract or size of contract and they go back down again - for them it isn't a matter of if but when.

and they didnt see success with that model

For Cheltenham even being in the FL is "success" so they've done OK using it.