You do make a very valid point Bomber. If I had my way there wouldn't be loan deals. In other words, 'you pays your money and you takes your chance'. However, we do have the loan system and it needs to be used with caution. Barnes has been a great success but as you say, he isn't our player and could well be on his way back to Leicester. It's not just the loan system that is holding our youngsters back. Why pay wages to players that are free agents, for example Mears and Sako? They haven't exactly 'pulled up any trees' since joining us. Surely playing some of our youngsters would have been of greater benefit.