I know there's a thread for ins and outs but now we know when our first game of the season will be I thought I'd set up a topic for players confirmed to be on board .

As far as I can see there's Lovell, Horsman, Oakley, Curran, Leyland and Blakemore retained / resigned from last season

Bienek, Macani and Latu are returning to the club.

New signings are O'Donnell, Coates, Parata, Foster, Albert, Tuliatu, Palumbo and Ramsey.

Happy to be corrected but I don't think there's a full back in that lot.
Are we likely to be adding more players - face it we need to - getting a few loanees in or simply giving a few kids promotions from the junior ranks?

Ferrier from Hull

Must be more as that's not enough to get through a month let alone a season.

That's what I thought - and why I wanted to start a list of the players confirmed for 2022.
Squad looks paper thin ATM .

Only 1 winger as well.
We had 25/26? Last season and general consensus was that was too few and we got into the inexperienced players too deeply and too frequently. We are somewhat down on that ...sigh.

We could make a comparison, of ins and outs

Chamberlain
Miski
Latu for Hodson
Macani for Boafa
Ogden
Ferreira for Hankinson
Coates for Meadows
Ramsey for Aston
Parata for Fozzard
O'Donell for Davis
Bienek for Richards
Albert for Adibiyi
Foster for Jones
Tuliati for Gwaze
Palumbo ?

Sammut, Walter and Egodu unknown

With the exception of Hankinson, Boafa and Miski I dont think the side is much worse than it was.

Lovell
Curran
Horseman
Leyland
Blackmore
Oakley

Mancani WG
Bieniek PR
Latu CEN
O'Donnell HK
Coates HB
Parata HK
Foster LF
Albert PR
Tuliatu PR
Palumbo BR
Ferrier CEN
Ramsey HB/FB

Thats 18. 20 were meant to be signed (as of a few weeks ago) with the club working on others.

Most of us haven’t seen much L1 so difficult to:be definitive but I’m going to disagree with you. In many positions we’ve replaced with players who haven’t been tested at Championship level. In any event it’s not a demonstrably stronger team than the one that finished 7th.

I think we have made some ok signings and some unknown

We have also lost fair bit of rubbish tbh. Main goal is avoiding relegation (not saying that us where the club should be etc)

I agree that Coleman will likely have picked up a few decent players and we seem to have gone for size which I think we lacked a bit of recently but I don’t think it’s realistic to expect all of these L1 players to operate at top half of Champ level so I think we are a lesser team. Also (1) we are no longer on 4g which I think was an asset to us as we were familiar with it (2) the team is completely new and as they are part time have less time to get fluent (3):we have an even smaller squad - last year we had too few meaning some of the squad players played more frequently than was optimal (4) other teams have strengthened. (5) I’m unclear who our flair players are now and our speed merchants. Do we have any?
As you say it was probably time to roll the dice on a few players but looking at the pre season 1st session photo I can’t see Sammut or Walters there (or Williams or Hindmarsh or Egodo for that matter). So I think they may have gone as well which I think is a loss. I think Fozzard going was a loss as well as he seemed to do well most weeks. I looked at fixture list and it took me a while to find a home game I thought we might win ...all looks a bit dodgy and that’s before the endless journey around the North Circ and then into South London which will be no picnic of a Sunday lunchtime.
I keep thinking about the press release announcing Coleman which talked about developing a culture and a London identity. It seems to me we have lost pretty much all our recent team, hired very few London players and are majoring on Antipodeans which does not feel quite in line with those bold promises.

The whole squad will be at the quiz. Better get a move on announcing the other 7/8/9 then

Nope. A number of options. All sh*t. About 3 changes and journey time on 1 and a half hours. No wonder I’m not keen on move to Wimbledon.

Yea for us a 20 min drive to Ealing has been replaced by almost 90 mins on trains and bus (including walk from bus stop to ground). Cost of parking and petrol to ealing 10gbp, cost for 2 people + 1 over 65 travelcard from Egham about 60GBP. So until we hear we can park close to PL, we won't be attending

To be fair to the club, they are aware of the parking issue, so I expect they will have something worked out when they release the season tickets