Go back 40 years. There were loans but nowhere near as we have today. We won promotion from Division 4 because we were able to sign the likes of Keith Oakes from Peterborough rather than 'loan' him. Which is what Would happen today. And without one or two of Oakes or Tynan or Moore or Aldridge or Gwyther I suspect Bradford would have been promoted not us.phil crump wrote:Usual snide comments from the all knowing but my view is without the loan system players like Scott twine will be sat on their arses not kicking a ball apart from the odd development game.there are lots wrong with the loan system but it also has positive pointsStan A. Einstein wrote:And without the loan system clubs higher up the pyramid would not be able to Hoover up so many players. Twine was not in Swindon's plans at the start of the season. Without the loan system Twine or a player of Twine' s calibre would or at least should have been playing for Newport County throughout the season and not be subject to the whim of Swindon f@cking Town.Percy plunkett wrote:Without Twine and Cooper,we wouldn’t be top of the League.White made a huge difference to the side.Without McCoulsky,we wouldn’t have beat Leeds on our first Cup run.Without Healey and Sheehan,we would have been relegated.To say loans are of no benefit to us is absurd.The problem I have with loans is Flynny signs too many,there were seven here this season,six on other occasions.There is a disruption caused by good ones being recalled and duff ones being sent back and more then being brought in to replace them.Far better to just have three and try to make sure that they will make an impact.Lewis and Webb have hardly played,there was Maloney and the other Cooper before them that were just squad fillers.I think we have a couple of Academy players who are being held back because of loan players clogging up the squad at their expense.
My argument, which the more intelligent readers of this board are fully conversant with, is not that Twine is not an exceptional player but rather that without the insidious loan system Twine would not be leaving just as we go into the business end of the season.
The loan system has no benefits whatsoever for Newport County.