Well, the Sloth situation is already a failure of recruitment. You can forgive 1, but 2 (if the same was to happen to Sam) could be pinned on Ardley and his team. This didn't happen even when it was Branston v Moniz
Sloth never looked like a good signing, whereas with Sam - there's still got to be a good chance (if Ardley starts managing to the team's attacking strengths)