All well and good, and I do have a great deal of sympathy with the Rotherham way. However the agents and grossly inflated price tags are the nature of the beast, its how the game has evolved and unless every football club takes the same approach as Rotherham then I'm afraid we'll always be the whipping boys. If you want to shop in Harrods, dont expect to pay asda prices.

It still doesnt answer the basic questions about preparation.

Targets should be known and sounded out.
The club should be able to have some info on fees and wages long before.

reasonably targets are the responsibility of the hiring firm and no one elses.

Virtually every club acquired more targets than us.

constant talk for several weeks and proclamations of deals has come to nothing.

so, either we are incredible clever; particular ; naive; rubbish.

I dont see any reasonable excuses at all.

This is not to say I agree or disagree with the business the club has done but Im merely attempting to point out the inconsistencies

I'm not blaming anyone in my initial post.

TS makes the analogy of shopping in a super market with Harrods price tags, but my suggestion is you cant be in Harrods (Championship) and expect to pay supermarket (L1) prices. The result will be you'll walk out of Harrods empty handed, unless that is, you are very astute and/or lucky, thus far it appears we have been neither.

I guess I'm asking the question, where do we want to compete, Championship or L1. If you have to ask how much, you can't afford it, as the saying goes.