Jimmy Knowles

[Dipdodah]

Young striker from Mansfield signs.

[Dipdodah]

Tom leak and Tom Edge also sign.

[Dipdodah]

Keziah Martin also joins from Kidderminster. I am a little underwhelmed with the players signed today. Apart from Tom Edge they seem to be fringe players for their previous teams. I hope and expect one or two bigger names added when contracts run out at the end of the month.

[Kearsley Pilgrim]

Keziah Martin also joins from Kidderminster. I am a little underwhelmed with the players signed today. Apart from Tom Edge they seem to be fringe players for their previous teams. I hope and expect one or two bigger names added when contracts run out at the end of the month.

From Kiddy fans' comments, they seem to rate Keziah Martin anyway. Just a few posted about him:-

"Keziah is absolute quality. Should have had way more game time last season. Boston looking good next season."

"Class player. Wish we hadn’t let him go."

"Great player, one of my favourite kiddy players. Very underrated!!!!"

"Some player you got in your hands😮‍💨😮‍💨."

"Gutted we let him, go all the best @Keziah_Martin10"
 
And on Tom Leak:-

"He's class, he seemed very unlucky not to get more minutes for us last season. All the best Tom!"

"You’ve got a good one there Pilgrims. Looked good when he did play for us and was unlucky not to get more game time tbf. Good luck Tom."

"Liked him, solid defender. Honestly not sure why he wasn’t played more this season!! Good luck!!!"

[Dipdodah]

I think maybe the ages of these signings means we can use them in the under 23s. The comments you have posted are a positive.

[Batistuta]

Perception is a funny thing, the reaction to signing two young players from the playoff winners is less positive than the reaction to Buxton signing three of our older players who haven't managed to get us promoted in the last three seasons.

[Dipdodah]

Perception is a funny thing, the reaction to signing two young players from the playoff winners is less positive than the reaction to Buxton signing three of our older players who haven't managed to get us promoted in the last three seasons.

I see where you are coming from, but these are fringe players we have signed. I expect we will sign one or two " names " to add experience to the squad.  You can't win the league with youngsters .  Where have I heard that before.

[scottbufc]

Keziah Martin also joins from Kidderminster. I am a little underwhelmed with the players signed today. Apart from Tom Edge they seem to be fringe players for their previous teams. I hope and expect one or two bigger names added when contracts run out at the end of the month.

Agree with this completely and hope we get some bigger names in. Like I said on another thread though, how many times have we all got so excited at the end of pre-season thinking we have this amazing squad who will easily finish in the top 3 only to be left very disappointed? Hopefully this year could be the reverse of that!

[Oakham Pilgrim]

Can anyone explain to me what is meant by 'bigger names' at our level?

[pieman pete]

Oakham Pilgrim
Absolutely agree. Who are we hoping to sign ? Mason Mount, Declan Rice ??

[Oakham Pilgrim]

Thanks, PP. Listening to radio commentary on the Championship playoff final, there seemed to be quite a few influential players who joined from teams at a lower level. The four we've just signed seem to get very encouraging reviews from fans at their previous clubs.

[Oakham Pilgrim]

Let us hope that they help turn us into a young, exciting and attacking team!

[York Street Pilgrim]

Can anyone explain to me what is meant by 'bigger names' at our level?

Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink? Jean Kaludimba-Kalala? George Sykes-Kenworthy?
Certainly a few bigger names in football than Tom Edge and Tom Leak.

[howmanynames2pick]

Can anyone explain to me what is meant by 'bigger names' at our level?

Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink? Jean Kaludimba-Kalala? George Sykes-Kenworthy?
Certainly a few bigger names in football than Tom Edge and Tom Leak.

    

[Pete Brooksbank]

I think I said elsewhere that I thought the recruitment has been underwhelming, BUT it's a fair point that we've been impressed in previous years only to be massively disappointed. We just have to trust that the scouting is better this year than it was last year, when we recruited players seemingly entirely at odds with how Paul Cox liked to play football. Not many Boston fans will be too familiar with the new names so we'll just have to see how we get on in pre-season!