Quote Originally Posted by stokearab View Post
Jake Doyle-Hayes, NI under 21 and highly regarded. He may or may not have turned out to be the next Bowman Badger or McInally but we're not going to find out because he signed for Hibs.

We appeared keen on him and TC admitted to that after he signed for Hibs because he said something along the lines of we were not prepared to break our wages structure for him.

Connolly
Reynolds
Butcher
Harkes
Pawlett
Clark
Sporle
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There are 8 players we could happily move forward without, leaving space and wages for quality signings to come in and dovetail with the existing players and youth breaking through. Ok not all of these players could have been moved on in the last 2 years but many could and still could be. We're paying a lot of players x money when we could have fewer players and pay a bit more for much better quality.

So no Jake Doyle Hayes or anyone like him because we have Harkes Butcher and Pawlett on standby in case Mochrie Meekison Hoti Smith and Neilson turn out to be not quite ready.

I hope they are ready and I hope they do rip up this league. But if we get relegated this project or experiment will go down in the history books of our club as a situation many saw coming but were ridiculed for saying so.
word for word great post IMO