Couldn't agree more. They didn't learn the lesson from last season when we only had Stewart from February onwards. Broadhead was injured and injury prone, Defoe was approaching 40 and for that reason couldn't be relied on to start games. Then obviously he wrapped in but even if he hadn't, he wasn't a player who could be second choice and lead the line, more a bonus player.It is poor…
1. Stewart was likely to leave
2. Simms had a clause to say that he could return which he did
3. There was a chance Stewart would get injured
4. There was clearly nobody in the academy ready
5. We were on a roll and had a chance to challenge the play offs
so my risk analysis spider senses are off the scale if I am in recruitment. Any 2 (for me it would be 1) of the above factors should have seen us with another striker. Especially given the recruitment ethos of getting promising young players in.
it is negligence in the extreme
They got away with it last season but they should have sighed a breath of relief and ensured we wouldn't be in that position again.