JG's no fool. He was quite open about his plan to bring in loans on the short term to give him some time. He has already spoken about the need to bring in some new faces during the next window and, given his track record, I have no doubts that's what will happen.
For all that, I said since day one that anything around 8th or 9th would be fine this year - as long as we had a decent platform to build on for next season.