Absolutely,Crocker was heard to say he was glad his visa was turned down,as he "didn`t fancy playing in front of those moaning barstewards."

i think its obvious why we dont attract good players,
because we would rarther be tight with our money than sign a world class player,

Someone as posh as you should be able to shell out a bit.

rather

We spend full cap every year. Think the main problem is who were paying what!

We aim to operate at the full cap it's not about being tight.

Correct, but it's a fact that many on here either fail or refuse to accept.

Aye. The problem isn't how much we spend, it's how we choose to spend it.

Although I would argue that we cut corners on coaching appointments, which don't count on the cap.

Don't spoil it - GET YER CHEQUE BOOK OUT KATH

As one of the top clubs, we have pretty much always spent at the top of the salary cap, therefore nobody can really accuse our board of being tight in that respect.
However, with all of the extra income that we recieve from various sources when compared to most other clubs, the only real "advantage" or "edge" that we should have is the ability to spend substantially larger amounts on top class coaches and the coaching set up in general but we just don't do this.
Is that because our board are tight ?? Probably !!
Do we always take the cheap option with coaches ?? Yes !!

The most frustrating thing is that this has massively impacted on our current squad because a top coach would surely not have carried out the absolutely shocking recruitment and retention that we have over the last few seasons. Our squad has gone so far backwards in such a short space of time in terms of quality and leadership that, for me, we are no longer anywhere near able to even compete at the very top of SL with regard to actually having a chance of silverware.

As its been said on numerous occasions on here our problem is our cap is taken up by too many average utility players

And they will all probably be here for a few more seasons yet !!!

Agar neither has the intellect nor the b0ll0cks to do anything about it !!!!