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I still think JR missed a trick massively with the none signing of Shackell when we were in the box seat with the fella.I know hindsight is a wonderful thing but surly it was a no brainer to have gone the extra yard and got him in at the beginning of last season, paid the small fee for him (circa 500K) and wage demand. .
I still think JR missed a trick massively with the none signing of Shackell when we were in the box seat with the fella.I know hindsight is a wonderful thing but surly it was a no brainer to have gone the extra yard and got him in at the beginning of last season, paid the small fee for him (circa 500K) and wage demand. For that outlay we would of had the benefit of the best left sided centre half in this league for all of last season, what that would of done for our strength and moral over the season is indeterminable, easy safety or possibly flirting with playoffs was a given, we would of saved the wages and outlay on three poss four centre halfs over the period of the season, god knows how much we had to spend for that little lot, and more importantly did not work for us, massive waste of cash and goodwill from the club.We would now be in the position of the dirty dingles, either sitting on another season of top class play from a quality defender or hawking him around all the top clubs in this league, also i would bet my misses that we would be asking for a much higher fee than the stinky lot from down the road are going to settle for. Final result, the club is either further strengthened and developed or we get a nice fee for future outlay on a new prospect. Overall, unusually bad management and planning from the special one on this occasion. I would imagine this has been a lesson learnt (or hope it has) now go and buy the KMS, invest shrewdly in talent for this season and watch the season ticket holders come flocking back. The club needs the boost of quality players otherwise we will be playing to league 2 crowds. Many season ticket holders from last season are waiting for a sign JR, can you provide the spark.
You miss my point entirely BR, The painful thing was that we did spend nearly all of last season trying to go forward but all the time looking in our rear view mirror because of the predicament we set ourselves by letting a player through our grasp only to pay three times as much on sub standard goods.The fact in this case we mentioned Shackell is immaterial, it could of been anyone. The point was that we had a poor season because our planning went tits up. We then compounded it by scouring the pound bins for backup and overspending in the process.Like you stated we have plenty to look forward to but it has to be based on solid foundations, we had the opportunity to build on granite but ended up with sandstone. I hope we have learnt the painful and costly lesson. When the opportunity presents itself to us again(and it will) we will know exactly what to do.
Good deal for Barnsley ... even if they have paid him 10,000 a week for that one season they end up making half a million pure profit since they signed him on a free .
Easy to be wise with that kind of hindsight isn't it. What the OP casually ignores is the countless examples of clubs throwing money around to overpay players and then paying the price heavily when it 'goes tits up'.I too was gutted to miss out on Shackel, and absolutely agree that with that wonderful hindsight, we surely did pay more than we would have had we conceeded to his demands, but without access to any crystal ball JR made what I and many others believe was a sensible and correct decision at the time.And do us a favour OP, the bloody word is HAVE!