Good reputations can take years to build and can be destroyed in a matter of seconds.
With The Iron, I suspect that our reputation amongst players around the country may not be quite what it once was.
We are no longer regarded as a positive outfit – the result of several poor years and recent dreadful ones.
It may well not be wages on offer which are the principal reason why players are no longer queuing up to sign for us. As Alcazar has strongly hinted – who wants to sign up for what looks like an inevitable relegation scrap?
What we now need is a couple of decent signings to demonstrate intent – and PDQ!
That would make us appear a better prospect all round to the middling players we can surely afford but apparently cannot attract.