Clearly I am in the minority regarding Ward.

Depends if you consider Ward playing well is " premiership quality " which I accept is a loose term.

In terms of defending and tackling I would suggest that a fit on form Ward would be possibly half as effective as a fit on form AWB , if that is true then it's a substantial reduction in defending capability.

It's an opinion only

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

I may be in the minority here but I would rather have an average right back (and IMO Ward is just that, a good solid player, but nothing more) and have the money to spend on a quality winger who could light up that side of the field and cause the opposition such problems that they have little opportunity to expose Ward. Carrasco may be the answer to this, someone like Sarr, perhaps others. A lack of a natural wide replacement for Townsend has caused as many problems as a lack of RB replacement for Ward. Ideally, of course get both, but if I was given a choice I would get a winger in this window.

I think this is a valid point despite your hesitation.

Ideally we'd have both but given the quite good possibility we have neither I am more inclined to bringing in some attacking reinforcement.

We hardly create anything and barely score and are only surviving on being able to keep the game tight. Without sweeping changes we will stay the same so extra firepower up front would certainly improve us better than another defender.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

If the other owners wanted to buy out Long they should have done it with their own funds, injecting more money into the club, not with the AWB proceeds.