Alex Battle

Thought he looked good in the friendlies an out and out striker with an eye for goal let's hope he's another Watters.

He was very good in the Horley game especially if I remember rightly

Battle has been sent out on loan to East Grinstead for the next month

Another utterly baffling signing at the end of the day really, I sincerely hope the club hierarchy think more carefully before stockpiling the squad with players that are clearly not going to be anywhere near the first team as it just racks up the wage costs (sorry if I sound like a broken record for mentioning this again but we really need to stop this recruitment policy I feel if we are to improve as a club)

Totally bizarre. Ricky German can't get a start at Dulwich in Conf South and now we are farming players out to Isthmian and Southern leagues.

Quite right - the club should stop signing players you described as “very good” and when he signed said “could only be a good thing”. You get people can just read what you said previously, right? It’s just a few posts up in this thread

I watched him at the Lancing match a couple of weeks ago and even though he scored twice I thought he was quite wasteful in front of goal and hit a few one on ones straight at the goalkeeper. Think he could be a decent striker in the National League if he gets more game time but I don't think he's League Two level unfortunately from what I've seen

And as for his pre-season, yes he had a decent game vs Horley but against limited quality opposition it's hard to tell really wherever one will have the same sharpness when playing better teams and the other friendlies I saw him in plus the EFL Trophy game he didn't offer anything going forward. At the time his signing was confirmed we did have a few forward players out injured (such as Nichols and Rodari) so we did need to have temporary cover but looking back we probably didn't need to seeing we still weren't sure how good Appiah will turn out to be back then. Mind you hindsight is the only thing everyone can earn a first class degree in

Thankfully I have faith Erdem is realising that signing so many players that don't turn out to be all that good isn't sustainable, as he said one of the aims next month will be to try and get a few players off the wage bill. Ideally for next season we should look to trim the squad down by 10-15 players and only make signings that are useful to the first team either by starting or providing good depth in the squad instead of signing 10 guys in the hope one of them makes as much money as Watters did