Five Years Ago - Remember This??

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1 hour ago, StudentOwl said:

Can't disagree

 

We made a big deal about him being considered the Billy Big Balls in the squad. Watford fans said that when FF felt adored, he was phenomenal. His first season showed that.

 

We got to the play-off final with a sustainable level of losses (if such a thing exists) with FF being one of the top earners in the squad. That should have been the blueprint moving forward... anyone we signed from then on couldn't be on much bigger wages than Bannan or FF, and you try and build sustainability from that.

 

Whether we would have won promotion following that approach, who knows, but the beginning of the end for us was when we thought it was a good idea to sign players and offer them wages substantially higher than we were giving our supposed talisman. From then on it was a runaway affect and here we are.

 

Maybe the sustainable approach wouldn't have resulted in promotion, but you can near guarantee we wouldn't be anything other than a win away from relegation to League One without a stadium.

 

Exactly my thoughts, however good Fletcher turned out to be for us, we could have probably got more value by bringing in someone younger of a similar ilk to him. 

 

He's the poster boy for us starting to bring in the likes of Abdi, Jones & Boyd rather than up and coming youngsters.  4 years and 35/40k a week >_>