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On our books, permanent contracts, being paid a wage by Rovers:James Baxendale. Chris BrownTommy SpurrOscar RadfordRachid Bouhenna
was happy to see Brown back at the start of the season but i think he will leave unless he is injured? I would have Tommy Spurr over Illunga anyday
This is why we are in trouble. The old regime signed too many average players to compete at this level. The 7 players mentioned above should not be at the club, throw Gary Woods, Richard Naylor (now departed) and dean shiels into the same category that is a third of our squad. We also have Shelton Martis and chimbonda who have season ticket to the treatment room. Tommy spurr, John Oster, Adam Lockwood, George Friend, Billy Sharp and Martin woods have unfortunately suffered long term injuries this season and people question where we are in the league. A club of our size cannot compensate for this.The club is basically paying 18 players who for 1 reason or another have not been available for selection and people question why Saunders has gone down the route he has. If you take an average wage of £3500 per week for each player mentioned in this thread this amounts to over £250,000 a month in wages, £3 million per season.All the people on this thread go on about SO'D and he should still be at the club, remember he told JR the best he could achieve this season was relegation. Dean Saunders is trying to overhaul a squad which for various reasons is not good enough. It is not easy to move players on who are injury prone or on good contracts to free up finances to buy new players, All this while trying to remain competitive and win games?
We certainly need to clear out some dead wood. You only have to look at the back of yesterdays programme it`s embarassing. The size of our squad compared to County`s and we`re the ones struggling to put a team out.