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by Scott5 » Thu Sep 18, 2025 2:14 pm
As much as you can blame Wood for some of the previous decisions ie. the decision to part company with Pete Wild and the appointment of Stephen Clemence and then not getting rid when it should've been done at the start of January, not all of the recruitment has been down to him.
Mahoney for example was Clemence's golden boy the one who was brought in on big wages a two year contract and pinned all his hopes for us on him, he's been a huge let down. One of the worst signings we've made considering his cost.
The likes of Earing and Josh Gordon coming back were from Whings Walsall connections, Booty and Raglan he had seen in the national league whilst with Solihull. Whing actually decided to not go for Aaron Pressley and instead go for the recommended Innes Cameron and whilst I was no great fan of Pressley, he's above Cameron from what I've seen so far.
We haven't got the biggest of budgets and a lot of clubs have increased theirs but what money we have spent has been mostly wasted; Proctor, Worrall, Garner, Telford, Mahoney...all big earners who returned very little. Even now we have the likes of Regan Booty on a three year contract whom we paid a fee for and he looks like a Sunday league player way out his depth. Scott Smith and Charlie Raglan two years....they aren't on peanuts either. Add to that some poor managerial choices over the years and I dread to think how much we've spent paying off the likes of Dunn, Jolley, Clemence and I'd be surprised if Whing doesn't become another before too much longer.