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Gwynn Thomas vs stum
Oh no animal, not you n’all.
If winnall and hourihane had stayed in January we’d have been in the championship this season. After they were sold, we also stayed in the championship for this season.
So if we’d sold them in January or they walked for nowt in June, they still wouldn’t have played for us this season. Whether it’s true or not, ive been told that bfc and Roberts were miles away with their wage valuations so talks didn’t even start. So he wouldn’t have been here either.
Watkins and scowen(my favourite out of all of them) moved for wages that are double our wage ceiling so they wouldn’t have been here this season either.
The only realistic ones were izzy who we got, George smith and George Williams, who Hecky didn’t fancy.
January 17 was to me, the first real wholesale example at Barnsley of player power created by the Bosman ruling. The agents hold all the cards and unfortunately clubs in the position we were at the time are there to be stripped.
You may disagree with me and think that we’d have made the play offs but unless we’d have been successful it would still have made little difference in my opinion.
To cut a long story short I think January 17 had little to do with our current position whereas indifferent purchases by Hecky in his tenure very much has.