Our club appears to be cyclical.

When I started to follow us in 1968 we'd just won the cup and were doing pretty well in the old first division.

A few years later under Howe we couldn't win a game and went down.

A few fallow years went by until Giles turned up with his keep possesion mentality and we scrambled back up.

Then we did pretty well culminating with the golden age of Regis, Robson, Cunningham et al until retirements, transfers onto better things etc meant we stuggled and went down again and........again. We fought our way back up to the Chump and languished near the bottom until Megson showed up , saved us from relegation and set us on course for the Prem for which we weren't ready for all sorts of reasons.

We went down and came up and went down and came up and stayed up miraculously.
Then went down and came up and stayed up for several years.

We had a couple of good years under Hodgson and Clarke
We were on a par with Everton the proverbial also rans. They spent big we didn't (or couldn't).

We staved off relegation for a couple of seasons until after the "best transfer window ever" we went down.

So what's the next point on the graph?