i do agree with licker as well in terms of panic signings, but the thing is, imagine if we had of had an injury crisis middle of last season, a player like gardner would have been used. sure he was never gonna start above lescott, jags and yobo, except if say 1 or 2 of them got injured he might have saved us. but yeah i do agree that if we sign somebody we want them to be around regularly, and hope they wont be injury prone