There were quite few on here last summer bemoaning the fact that we hadn't strengthened the first team, if you stand still at this level we said, you'll get left behind. Of course there were those who didn't agree, trust the board, the club knows what it's doing, stop moaning, we were told.

So what happened ? We dropped 8 places in the league, from 7th to 15th, I don't know without checking but I think that fall down the table must have cost us between £10m and £15m, and we went from 54 points to 40 points, a loss of 14 points. Quite dramatic falls, and if repeated next season we'll be down by Christmas and no mistake, so hopefully sense will prevail this time, and we'll see some serious recruitment taking place in summer.

Looks like Moaners 1 Happy Clappers 0 to me though.