Quote: Egg Chasing "Neither Whelan nor Lindsay could manage the cap. They just expected to throw money about and bring back the glory days.
They weren't too far away with the number of finals we competed in TBH.'"
Together in their first 5 years 00/04 they made 1 final each year and unfortunately that only manifested 1 trophy - Which I think is very unlucky given the Quality we had - We also had to compete with initially 2 then 3 of the Best clubs sides the countries seen in the SL era in Bradford/Saints & Leeds.
The trouble was though, the lack of cap management, the lack of squad depth which led to the Youth not being looked after correctly was a Ticking Timebomb
First of all I don't believe we should underestimate how badly the Mike Gregory situation was dealt with
And as the injury crisis and the Millward situation came together which initiated Newton leaving etc. the whole House seemed to crumble.
We threw money at it again in 2005/6 which didn't work for a number of reasons (Moran/Calderwood/Feka/Richards/Fletcher etc.) and it took more money to rescue us from it (Fielden/Dobson etc.) which in turn Hamstrung us 2007/08
I've said previously that the fans forum start of 2008 was alarming - How much % of the cap was being spent on such a small % of players.
Leneghan asked for 2 years to sort it so he could redistribute and retain the youth - He wasn't far off