To continue the metaphors.

It should be recognised that any 11th hour move should be viewed by us as shipwrecked sailors - who may have looked forward to finding a lush desert island, but after 6 months of difting without hope would warmly welcome even the barest rock.

I am also put in mind that this last minute rushed process was most probably also the birth of the original 'two-in-a-bar' rule.......