i'd say we were also on our knees before little Earn when we signed him too

(and not just so we'd see eye to eye...)

January transfer deadline day and all that jazz

plus when we signed Ashton he'd have been coming from earning a couple of hundred pounds a week at Crewe (or whatever) and would probably have been a fairly low earner for us in the Premiership (in comparison to Hucks for instance) and so even an improved contract in the fizzy for him probably wouldn't have been the financial burden that signing a player of Earnie's quality form the Premiership has been

Posted By: blindasabat, Dec 1, 16:57:16