Well, if we're using hindsight, what would have been the financial difference if Hendrick had played in the Swansea game and broken his leg and been unavailable for the rest of the season? Factor in the saving of staying up as against relegation, when you're counting the cost of that Swansea defeat.claretspice wrote:Did we save more than the extra prize money we'd have banked if he'd been available for and we'd won the game against Swansea, the one which at some stages in the season looked like it might have had the potential to be the difference between survival and relegation? If we saved 4 million by holding out till the end for Hendrick, might that have been a false economy in the end?
You never know what would have happened, only what did happen. And what did happen was, IMO, satisfactory.