I wonder if the boy Lawrence’s orange coloured sister could be utilised by the comms team?

After looking him up, I'm guessing Lawrence will used as a marauding right wing-back in the NGW mould.

Thought he is a right back?

Kentish- no midfielder

Is Lawrence a forward?

Woking Jon, do you demand a vaccine passport before boarding?

Lawrence from Chelsea confirmed on twitter. By his sister anyway.

I reckon this seasons dealings have been a revelation, years ahead of past transfers. Picking up unwanted talent and signing them on contract with the view to playing ans develop them on adding value, along with good loanees that have prospects for their parent club means our own players will have a decent gauge of quality to aspire to being. Too often in the past have we picked up players that get let go of their parent club as they haven't lived up to expectations even at a lower level. The 2 outstanding candidates of Rambo and Forss buck that trend, we seem to be getting a sniff at those with a similar potential. THANKS ROBBO.

If they sell Cox on for 'squilliens' I'd hope we will at least get millions as a cut.

Very much so, MAD, but the parent club gets the better deal in the long run. Brentford's model is to take lower league/young talent and sell it on for squillions - we are helping them to achieve that.

Or anyone that Ardley glimpsed for 30 seconds at Cardiff!

All of this is an improvement on being a bin/physio couch for Gills players 👀

Thanks WJ - I’m gonna be getting the train from Cheltenham. Only one change to Donny. Might take advantage of the weekend upgrade to enjoy a little more space in 1st class.

Agreed Bush. The Presley rumours started pretty much at the end of last season. Might have been something that helped with a bit of soft power ... ah wink nudge wink, we've helped get you Cox do us a favour with that striker of yours. But that's called a deal. It doesn't make us a feeder club.

I don't think the Pressley loan had anything to do with the Cox transfer. Brentford have loaned us several players over the last few years, and have signed only one from us. And Cox was being tracked by a number of Prem clubs. He would have gone anyway.

I'm driving up from the SwinDon/Cirencester area to Donny on Saturday week. Currently have room for 3 if you are en-route. email jon AT armasoft . co . uk if interested

That's how it works, Hash. Promising young'uns sign for 'parent' club, the parent loans back U23s to their feeder.

For the short term, having decent loan players that helps us stay in League 1 must make sense - there is a new ground and a large potential new fan base to think about. Better to suck it up, attract new fans, pay off the loan, then shift to a more long term model

Saveloy, exactly. We have so far signed George Marsh (from Tottenham) and Luke McCormick (from Chelsea) on PERMANENT transfers. We have signed Elvis Presley (Brentford) and probably Henry Lawrence (Chelsea) on loan. We lost our academy goalkeeper to Brentford for an undisclosed fee. What part of this means we are becoming a 'feeder club'? Genuine head scratching. Feeder club? er, nah.

Surprised we would ever go near chelski, with our woke,signaling, must be just for show😂

Funny how we all see things differently, give him a few years this guy is only going to get better.

Looks like he's been overdoing the Double Whoppers, to my eye

Our one goal I should say.

Bartley was a big unit, Akinfenwa type. Wouldn’t say he was over weight. He out muscled the Trumpton defenders to cause the confusion which lead to our goals. Their defenders kind of just bounced of him.

I'd imagine a de facto feeder club arrangement makes it more likely that any Academy player making a splash leaves before they get anywhere near the first team.