It may be simplistic and wrong

to think that the board of a football club should be more concerned about football than catering, but you haven't really explained why have you?
There is no reason to suppose that playing left back for Sheffield Wednesday would qualify to manage a budget of many millions of pounds, but our board left him to do it anyway - with the catastrophic results that we have all seen.
Worthington's failure to grasp that over-spending on one area of the team meant that down the line he wouldn't be able to produce a balanced squad has produced problems that Grant is still trying to sort out. Example: within one month last year Worthington signed two players - Jarrett and Hughes - who he himself felt were too similar to play in the same side. I'm not saying that the board should have vetoed the second signing - but they certainly should have pointed out that spending the money on Hughes would have made him less able to address the problem of finding someone to play on the right.
Or take the signing of Earnshaw. Whatever his talents he was not really what we needed - he is a player at his best when playing off a big man - as are Huckerby, Jarvis, Henderson, MacKenzie and McVeigh. Yet we had no big man (or rather we had Thorne which amounts to the same thing) better to have forked out a million for someone like Howard or Parkin and have had money over to strengthen the defence. It is ludicrous that a club with the advantages we have had was forced to play Earnshaw as a lone striker because the squad was so unbalanced.

Posted By: CheatingcuntBywater, Mar 8, 11:58:40