Those pesky critics

"Contrast that situation with a number of other players who have been "our own players" over the years. The likes of Raymond de Waard, Fernando Derveld, Julien Brellier, David Strihavka, Marc Libbra, Steve Walsh?every single one of them, and many more, have been contracted players. And every single one of them has had to be paid up in order to get them off the books.

Critics might fairly point to a scouting system that in the past has let us down."

And critics might rather more fairly point to a band of non-executive directors who have done nothing about a scouting system that in the words of their highly paid chief executive "has let us down" on many occasions since the year 2000.
Or to a band of non-executive directors who have watched our hugely expensive Academy churn out little more than a succession of Leyton Orient reserves and done nothing about it.
Or watch as our medical advisers declare that Thorne, Chadwick, Lappin, Hartson, and Cort were physically capable of Championship football when they patently weren't.

Well the critics would point to the non-executive directors if they didn't know that all of this is Glenn Roeder's fault. And how convenient is that?

Posted By: Chester Drawers, Jan 8, 20:08:42