Quote Originally Posted by City123 View Post
I think it's fairly obvious this is the plan, they've maybe overdone it slightly as I don't think Kieron Evans & Sam Bowen being in the squad in September was expected but it's pretty clear that with the number of players out of contract this summer that the plan is to see if the best of the youngsters can hack it at this level and thus mean we don't have to keep someone around who is on 10x their salary
I'd go even further in saying that Wintle being loaned out is a money saving option too.

It seems very odd that Wintle would be surplus to requirements, at least at the moment at his age, and Bowen would see game time.

Maybe things are a lot worse than they appear.