basically we took a gamble...

that Premiership reserves would be better quality than the equivalent players we could afford to spend the money on the sign permanently.

It didn't work, but it could just have easily have gone the other way (after all in Roeder's first season it was the extra quality of some of his loan signings over the crap players that Grant signed permanently that saved us).

Every time you make a decision to sign a new player or manager there is a risk involved that it won't work out - the last few years it hasn't, in 2001-4 it generally did (the Board was the same on each occasion).

If a lot of decisions go wrong in the same season and you get bad luck with injuries etc then it is a recipe for disaster and you can get relegated (like this year).
If a lot of decisions work out well all at once and you get good luck with injuries etc. then it is a recipe for success (see 2003/4).

That's football.

Posted By: mr carra, May 11, 14:14:21