Eastwood was fine and Stevens just needed to get over his illness etc, but the whole thing was managed horrendously.
I don’t buy stats all the time, I can see with my own eyes that Eastwood & Stevens are good keepers if managed correctly, that’s why I say it wasn’t a priority. We had bigger fish to fry, but we didn’t focus on them, hence the extremely poor window.
The sad thing is, both Karl, Grant and the other directors think they only took a risk with one player (Murphy), and that judgement really concerns me.
As others have said before, we’ve extended contracts and brought in players who are quite frankly high risk, aging or past it or n longish agreements (2 years), who are on high salaries, so this mess could take a while to address/resolve.