WELL, that was a busy January. Five games, three new faces, one permanent departure and three sent out on loan. A new club record transfer fee. Wild speculation. Elation. Despair. Essentially all the things that make football fun and our collective blood pressure rise and recede like the Red Sea when Moses is around.

With the January transfer window creaking shut - no slamming here - on Monday we are now set with our playing personnel for the rest of the season.

It was for Phil Parkinson, Shaun Harvey, Les Reed and our scouting department, a long month of hard graft to ensure that anyone we brought in strengthened our first XI and strengthened it right now.

I think the impact of Ollie Palmer in his first two games has not gone unnoticed in the stands or in the squad and we are confident that Callum McFadzean and Thomas O'Connor can have a similar effect.

I think at times it is easy to underestimate the challenge of persuading players and staff to uproot their lives and move across the country and down the football pyramid to a new job at an unfamiliar organisation.

I want to pay tribute to our recruitment team who have managed to produce, what I would argue, promises to be as successful a January transfer window as the club has possibly ever had.

Our hope is that these players represent the missing pieces of the puzzle. We went into this window with a very strong squad and it has got stronger.

The time has come for us to get the bit between our teeth and go after this league with a vengeance. The National League, as a competition, rather than an organisation, has been a great bane to this football club, it is time for us to take our revenge.

No Prisoners, No Pasaran (I'm reading an excellent book on the Spanish Civil War at the moment, so apologies if this is even more propaganda-y than usual).

Away from the first team, we are delighted to welcome two new members of staff to the club in the form of Head of Marketing and Communications, Ryan Grant, who joins with an impressive CV, having worked at Blackburn Rovers and, unfortunately, Manchester United; as well as Andy Duff, our new Head of Commercial, who has worked previously with the likes of Bayern Munich, British Athletics and Mercedes F1 team.

Rumours that Bayern Munich demanded our Head Groundsman Paul Challoner as part of a swap deal are wide of the mark as Chally's current market value is estimated as two Heads of Commercial and a Coffee Machine.

Both Andy and Ryan bring a wealth of experience to these roles and we are very excited to see what they can do.

Both will no doubt be interested in the growing size of the club's TikTok following, a burgeoning market for the club to reach new fans and generate new revenue.

We have passed 100k followers on TikTok, surpassing many big clubs such as Swansea, Blackburn, Birmingham and Sunderland. Great credit to Ollie Williams and Tom Barlow from the Media Team for driving that success.

Finally, people have been asking about the prefab office building in the club car park and those are the new temporary offices for the club while renovation work to the Yale stand is being prepared. More changes and improvements to come.

Safe travels to all going down to Torquay on Saturday, let's come back with the three points.

COYR.