To say Lincoln City's defence was a bit rubbish last season. Alan Marriott, Ayden Duffy, Paul Green, Lee Beevers, Nat Brown, Lee Ridley, Hamza Bencharif, Danny Hone, Adie Moses and Gary Croft conceded a shocking 90 goals in all competitons last season, spread over 50 games. There's no getting around it, that is simply not good enough.

We were thrashed on many, many occasions. Conceding four goals against Shrewsbury, Doncaster, MK Dons, Chesterfield (twice), Darlington, Peterborough and Wrexham, also conceding five to Hartlepool and Barnet.

What had made it even more frustrating was that other than Gary Croft, Schofield seemingly had little interest in bringing in new defenders last summer. We had Anthony Tonkin on trial but he rejected us to join Forest Green. Several thrashings later and Schofield was sacked.

Jackson was brought in but our defence still looked a bit dodgy to say the least. However, he's not trying to rectify that situation by doing what Schofield certainly didn't do, bring in players better than those we've already got.

Janos Kovacs is set for talks at the club later today and a deal could easily be sorted by the end of the week. Giddings joins on trial and will be aiming to make a better go of it than the last player to join us after being released by Coventry, Rory May.

However, Jackson isn't stopping there and believes he will have a left back at this club by the end of the week. He's remaining generally tight lipped about who that defender is, but all this talk about bringing in defenders will be music to City fan's ears due to the general incompetence of the backline over the last 18 months.

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