Quote ="Mild mannered Janitor"You really cannot help yourself can you.
You have not used any facts.
You miss out the phrase "In my opinion" as thats what it is. Trying to pass on your thoughts as the facts is in itself misleading.
Why is Smith being a free agent anything to do with this? I would say on the evidence available, pass sales are down, less cash available, that wanting to watch outgoings would be of paramount importance.
Signing Smith shows no faith in the youth system? Frankly, that is a disgrace of a comment. The mere fact that Abdul, Turgett, Downs, Fash Logan, Lancaster et al all have a decent number of SL games under their belt shows the club very much have faith in the youth system. Other clubs could easily have gone to the loan market late last season but we didn't.
The FACT that we are short of experienced back is clearly the motivation to sign ONE player who has been there and done it. Who has won the MoM in a GF, who was part of the set up which resulted in the likes of Ryan Hall, Kallum Watkins, BJB, etc. Perhaps, just perhaps that experience could be passed on. But I am guessing here, as I don't know the facts of the matter, a little like you.'"
Radford's own words "It would be a stretch (to accommodate him under the salary cap) but there’s room to manoeuvre I think". That is then a FACT that we are operating just under the cap.
