Cowley throws off the Shackells to deliver a window of opportunity.

Yes, I know, that’s cheesy even by my standards but, unlike the previous deadline day Lincoln City have not only added to their squad but really put the icing on the cake and produced a rounded roster with something for everyone. Presumably Jason Shackell is a direct replacement for the departed Waterfall and in Joan Luque not only an exotic foreign player but one who started his career at Barcelona no less. Didn’t I say that’s the sort of club City should emulate? Ok it’s not Messi but in Luque Cowley has taken a punt on an unknown and we have a player we can get excited about. Let’s hope he gets his chance and has the fans off their seats. You never know, in a couple of years he could be the player everyone is talking about.

So to the first home game of the season and the indications are it wont be far off a full house. That’s not the talking point any longer but even so a full stadium confirms that the people of the Lincoln area are still firmly behind the club and we are going to have another profitable term on the gates.

Of course the transfer window brings not only interest in terms of players coming in but the threat that some of our best loved players may go. In the event it was only Luke Waterfall but without sounding too churlish I don’t think that vacancy will be too hard to fill. We shouldn’t be too worried that teams covet our players either, that is a sign that we have real quality at the club. We didn’t have that problem before for the simple reason that other clubs did not see our players as anything special. Now they do. We should embrace that. Hopefully, as alluded to in the press the new contracts will not contain the dreaded release clause that leave the club powerless to resist a player moving. Those clauses were in for one simple reason, the club were not a particularly enticing prospect and that was the only way we could get good players to join us. So hopefully now the only sales we would have to agree to are those really juicy offers that the manager could use to build up the quality and wants to accept rather than has to.

Where were we? Oh yes, the first home game. Danny Cowley on the one hand delivers to us two more mouth watering prospects to add to the already enthralling squad assembled to have another tilt at league two. He then tells us not to get over excited.

Do me a favour mate!