You can call it that.

I call it one of our best players, coming to the end of his contract asking for a pay rise for his new deal and getting told to eff off. It's a move that was indicative of Caisley's time in charge.

So I heard. I think as one of the first "cost-saving" measures - and I know the numbers they had to save to keep the club out of the hands of the insolvency professionals had more noughts on the end than most at the time (certainly including me) ever realised.

I guess the big question is - and with the benefit of hindsight - what cost reduction measures did much more harm than any financial benefit could outweigh? And what ELSE could have been cut instead to do less harm? We'll never get to know, though, unfortunately. It just alarmed the hell out of me to be going up to Odsal for formal meetings every month or so, and keep finding fewer and fewer people who I was working with still there - at all levels, from Chairman down.

Interesting to see that there seems to be a big issue over Leeds way regarding cutting back on academy spend. I'm increasingly wondering if they are starting to tread a similar path, generally, to the one we have been plunging down?

according to posters on leeds board they are only offering their academy players match payments now, part of the fallout of which resulted in us getting marcus elliot and several other u16s leaving. you'd have thought they'd have seen what effect sending our academy part time had os us and thought better of it.

He wasnt though was he, he'd just signed a new improved contract before Harris was signed. His contract didnt end until the end of 2005.

Leeds academy has been part time for last 3 years this is different to part time.

Davies also had a lot to do with the Harris signing from his time at Reebok.

forget players whinging or not- if we dont have the money why not give somone a chance rather than a. Sign a player plunging us in more debt regardless of name or ability. B. Risk losing academy players because they have to go part time due to cuts and potential financial problems?

Nobby must have had a clue of the financial situation and when he was looking at options pryce's and paul or pratt, etc he was not exactly making use of what he had was he? Cameron phelps most usefull import into the english game-:lets think of today somone else will fix tommorow.maybe i am just bitter but i do feel the decisions he made were short sighted.
Although cutting academy would not have been my initial choice so long as it was potentially short term i suppose we have survived.id have rather we cut other things lbut i guess it was not simple.