Don't get me wrong - I think fees and wages in English football are grossly inflated.  However, we are where we are.  If RUFC want to survive, let alone prosper, they have to compete.  The current policy of sticking plaster loanees is inherently doomed: Lawrence is a case in point; the team are starting to play through him and Whooooosh - he's off.  Lots of posters rightly applaud the chairman's financial prudence and in a perfect world they are right.  But in this world it leads back to League 1.  You can't attract top players and just as important you can't retain them Alf, Grabban, Dicko, Agard etc.