Four in and, er………………….

You know that saying, the more things change the more they stay the same? I was thinking, not for the first time, that sums things up as far as Lincoln City are concerned. Way back when I first started following the Imps in earnest there was the Lincolnshire Echo, that came out every evening bar Sunday. Then there was the Football Echo which arrived on the streets about an hour after the final whistle. If it wasn’t in those two publications, you heard nothing. No Radio Lincolnshire, no internet. There was the Chronicle but that didn't count.

So when you next feel like bemoaning the lack of news think of those days. And yet, is it any different now in terms of good solid information? I’m not sure it is to any great extent.

Take the current situation. We’re sat here, what do we know for sure? Well City have signed four players. Are they any good? Time will tell. Can we read anything into it? Yes we can. Some will play, some may have to wait. At least one, so far as I can see, is with a view to selling on. That, we were told, was the way forward for a club like Lincoln City. I can’t argue with that.

Ah ha, I hear you say. What about all the departures? Oh yes, the departures. What to we know about them? Well Harry Toffolo to Huddersfield, Harry Anderson, ditto. A million pound fee. Who told us that? The internet, so it must be right.

The truth of the matter is we don’t know anything. Yet. So for the moment, you, dear fellow supporter and I, are in exactly the same position as myself all those years ago, delivering papers around the Hartsholme Estate, having a look at the Footie Echo before it went through the letterbox.

Oh, I can tell you something with great authority. Lincoln City take on Shrewsbury Town tomorrow where they will either win lose or draw. Remember where you heard it first.