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THERE is the nucleus of a good side and I hope we retain the services of Humphreys, Clark, Liddle, Monkhouse, Nelson, Brown, Sweeney and Collins.

What is needed is some real quality.

We failed to land Darryl Duffy and Anthony Elding - these are players who were hardly multimillion pound buys and we failed to attract.

Wilson has hardly succeeded in the transfer market. The insistence of tinkering with the team, playing players out of position and sticking by Mackay, Foley and Antwi, who are reserve or squad players at best, has caused disquiet.

Danny Wilson must stay only to prove his worth, I'd give him till Christmas. The club owners need to back him. The half million or so we received two seasons ago for Adam Boyd has not been reinvested, signings of aging journeymen like Richard Barker and Willie Boland are not the way forward.

I'll be soon investing around £400 in a season ticket and I hope we see a side worthy of this next season. Otherwise the thousand or so that pay their £20 on the gate who have voted with their feet will do so again and the majority who remain will not stand for mediocrity.

Paul Christison Ushaw Moor Durham

9:53am Monday 5th May 2008

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