We’re not. Chairman has acknowledged it. Weren’t able to. Good players are reluctant to join the clubs that are most in need of them. For reasons that defy my understanding ‘we’ decided to try to build patiently from the bottom up a few years ago and it set us back massively. Now we have no choice but to keep trying the same thing, over again in the hope that one batch of gambles will pay off sufficiently well to break the cycle.

If it does, I’ll likely get to listen to the pundits saying how it was the right thing to do all along. It is difficult to convey how that will make me feel.

I composed a lengthy piece about the game then realised I hadn't added anything of value to what you had already expressed with such admirable brevity.

Well said!

Does it?

Don’t tempt fate.

I don't think you've recruited too badly overall in the close season.

All the best for 2020, but not at our expense.