No player is irreplaceable and we should be looking to improve our squad depth and quality. The issue is not such much his rumoured departure to an another NL team as what it signals. Our player budget will likely not enable the signing of players of the quality of Ewing or Westbrooke, and certainly not Roberts. The net result is a weaker squad. We will see.
Last season could, potentially, just have been the flukey post-promotion ‘momentum’ season – the chance to ‘do it’ and get promoted. Now the dust has settled, reality could bite and we could be in for a few years of loanee and journeymen struggles.
