Wrong, actually

Francis was an ever-present first team starter, and you've missed him completely. And both Jonson and Sveeny were fringe first team (they both came on as subs at Fulham, our last first team match). And Charlton was also on the bench for the Fulham match

So that's nine of our final Prem starting 11 plus subs who were shipped out pretty soon after we were told that our clever wage structure meant we didn't have any high wages.

What I'm getting at is this. We get told how clever we are about arranging low wages. Now we're told that the new players we bought to replace the nine (NINE!!! aaarrrgghh) departed first team squad members were themselves given almost equally high wages. Even though they were obviously (except Robbie) not as good as the players they were replacing!!

So in public the club tells fans it's OK, wages are down, and in reality, they were putting the wage bill back up, thus screwing the finances and making a major restructuring an inevitability when the parachutes ran out.

I guess I assumed that because we were (we were told) so careful about wages, any new signings would be put on careful wages not silly wages. And that has turned out not to be true.

Posted By: Old Git, Dec 1, 17:20:59