Originally posted by Hove Ranger
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Certainly don't think Felt's view should be dismissed out of hand. We fans always think of the uplift, never the pitfalls. IF we go up keeping Austin seems like a master stroke - probably even if he walks for free in May - but fail and it will look like a mistake, on a par with wasting the 6m we got for Les all those years ago when £6m was still a lot of money in football. We will be there at the end of the season with the money running out, probably a small transfer budget, no decent striker and thinking "what could we do with £15m now." Hopefully that won't happen and I personally think it is a risk worth taking but that is the risk the owners - if not all the fans - will have weighed up.
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