No Thank You – Drewe Broughton

There will be those who feel I’m going to be harsh here. After all Drew was, for want of a better word, terrible at Lincoln. He’s since revealed a battle with depression and won an army of new friends with his candid discussion but that doesn’t change the fact he was awful here.

He played for MK Dons in 2007/08, two years before coming to us, so the link is stretched. There was only one club between us and them, that being Rotherham which is who sold him to us. Trust me, if I’m doing this article next season, they’ll get lambasted for that.

Drewe came with a reputation as a hard man who knew occasionally where the net was. He had scored against Lincoln and had also turned out for Boston in the past, so he needed to work hard to get the crowd on side. A run of goals might have helped, but they didn’t come and neither did the crowd’s support. He’d spent his career getting more bookings than goals every season and in a Lincoln shirt he didn’t change his ways.

At least elsewhere he’d managed to score some goals, whilst representing us he only ever got booked, and even then, it wasn’t as much as before. His total input into our survival was absolutely nothing at all. When we needed a goal, he wasn’t there. When we needed a target man to hold the ball up and flick it on, he wasn’t there. When we needed a hard-nut centre forward to put himself about, he wasn’t there. By mid-season he wasn’t there at all, he was out on loan scoring goals for AFC Wimbledon in the league below us. By the time his couple of goals had added to their promotion party he was back in our squad (not scoring) as we went down and Wimbledon replaced us.

If only he’d stayed at MK Dons.