Great news.
There was talk on another thread about the future signings which may come at the end of the month when contracts are up in the league.
What must happen sooner is the signing up of crucial members of the squad to full time contracts.
This is the first of them and I look forward with eager anticipation to seeing news of more very soon!
PS. I think it's the second one actually. Hasn't Toby signed up already?
I think the main benefit of going full time that I’m expecting to see/hoping for isn’t necessarily better recruitment but it giving us a better chance of retaining the good players we get (recruitment can always be a bit hit and miss by it’s very nature).
I don’t know much about the lads mentioned from other teams. I do know we’d be in a very strong position if we still had, James Jones, Marcus Smith, Josh Lundstram, Joel Senior and (for a period he was gone) Jordan Hulme hadn’t left us, for clubs which quite frankly aren’t really any bigger than us but could offer a combination of full time football/more money/football league status.
It might not have stopped it but if we can knock one of those three factors out then it would at least help.