Ins and outs of life down at the den

He has the talent to do just that but at this point in his career he needs to demonstrate it regularly.
Simpson is a quick and physical striker which is just what we have been lacking up front this season. Of course, he is inexperienced, but then so were past loan signings Danny Haynes and Darren Huckerby. Huckerby used the loan period at the Lions to turn himself from seventh-choice striker at Newcastle to a million-pound player in the space of a few short weeks.
Exiting The Den recently we have seen Neal Ardley retire and Darren Byfield join Bristol City for an undisclosed fee. Ardley did a good job for us when he was fit right at the tail-end of his career. When he returned from his first absence from injury he helped to turn the fortunes of the team around with good clean, calm, passing that had been lacking from the team in his absence.
Unfortunately for Ardley, injury struck again and we therefore had to bite the bullet and bring in Dave Brammer to do the same job. It was clear Ardley was not going to be in the starting line-up this season so he honourably decided that was the signal to retire. Just a shame we did not sign him earlier in his career though, as we really would have then seen the best of him.
The Byfield saga finally came to an end last week. We'll miss Darren's goals for sure and his pace which frightens defences at this level. As per normal though, any money received for Byfield will not adequately replace him, but the club and supporters do really need to move on now and put the disappointing outcome behind us.
As the saying goes, no one player is bigger than the club.
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