NickyKiss wrote:
Our last chairman paid too much for those players though and got us in trouble year after year.
I always said when Lenagan took over that we may have to see a couple of years worth of bargain bin signings if we wanted to stop players and their agents taking us for a ride after that. We've been seen for a long while now as a meal ticket for players and that had to stop, i presume that now were not viewed as being that meal ticket anymore, especially given your last comment.
Hopefully from now on though he'll gradually start to raise the bar in terms of quality and salaries of the players he brings in, within reason, so that we can start getting a better of quality of player in again but without paying over the odds for them.
I think the Gleeson signing was the first sign that his transfer policy may be on the change.
I always said when Lenagan took over that we may have to see a couple of years worth of bargain bin signings if we wanted to stop players and their agents taking us for a ride after that. We've been seen for a long while now as a meal ticket for players and that had to stop, i presume that now were not viewed as being that meal ticket anymore, especially given your last comment.
Hopefully from now on though he'll gradually start to raise the bar in terms of quality and salaries of the players he brings in, within reason, so that we can start getting a better of quality of player in again but without paying over the odds for them.
I think the Gleeson signing was the first sign that his transfer policy may be on the change.
A lot of truth in this.
Look at it this way, under IL we have no salary CAP issues which lead to league points being deducted.
If IL goes to Aus looking at a player (i.e. Webb) then decides he isn't good enough, would you still want him to sign him just to show he is a) willing to splash the cash and b) to please fans?
No way, if Webb turns out to be a poor signing, IL will kick himself as he initially knew he isn't the right signing. It would then only be a matter of time before the fans (namely this place) would be on IL's back and Webbs.
If there's no one worth signing, don't sign anyone, wait, keep communications open and wait until someone who is worth the fee to become available then make the signing.
Unless we'll end up with 'lesser' players contracted to the club, the won't progress.
If IL doesn't make a single signing this summer, its because no one worth signing is available.
Gleeson is a top centre (pity our halves can't create anything for him) he's a great signing. Let this be an example of where we're going.
Jesus wept, who picked him????? IL should be ashamed if that one is true.
