Everyone can scoff at Voldemort as much as they like, but the fact remains that the strategy which Irvine adopted of signing aged players in order to supposedly build a stable, defensive team is flawed in that if it doesn't work you screw the club's finances up for years to come. It should never have been allowed to happen.
Billy Davies attempted to build a team for the future alongside more experienced players by signing the likes of Nugent, Hibbert, Anyinsah - ok, two out of that three didn't come off - but one did, big style, and the club would've been quids in if Shaw hadn't been duped by wide boy Harry Redknapp.
IF Ashbee (and maybe Iwelumo) save us from relegation fair enough, but if they don't and we end up stuck with them on long-term contracts in League One then we'll be in an even worse state than we are now.
The fact is though, the answer lies somewhere in between. A few months ago most of you were wanking into your cornflakes over Coutts and Treacy and now when Voldemort points out his disappointment over the fact that they're not getting on the pitch he's suddenly wrong purely because of the fact that Phil Brown is the new kid on the block and he hasn't done anything to piss anyone off yet. Judgement over the new manager ought to be reserved until he's earned all of this adulation.
It's a personal thing against Voldemort for most on here now, I don't necessarily agree with him either but any fucker who seems to think that Lonergan is a Premiership goalkeeper and that Leon Clarke is going to score the goals to save us deserves to be treated with at least some level of suspicion.