We|Stay Up this Season but it gets tougher next

[PeteWaller]

We are what we are. Evans has made mistakes of course and he now admits there have been too many ins and outs. If we stay up (and I repeat, SE is blameless on the registration fiasco), then he will have done a great job.

We are absolute minnows in this league and we so need the additional income that development of the G&C site would bring. That is away off yet and so we will struggle even more next season because we simply do not have the budget of most in the Champs.

Now, Bristol City are up, Preston may follow with MK Dons or possibly Blades. All bigger than us.

Leaving for the premiership we may see Bournemouth, Watford, Boro, Derby, Wolves, Ipswich, Norwich. Big clubs bar Bournemouth who have been the absolute exception but dropping down we may see Hull, Leicester, QPR, Sunderland. All big big clubs. Burnley you can argue are nearer to us than any of the others but with parachute payments in the bag, they too are light years away from us in terms of finance/funding.

So, if we

[leedsmiller]

Good post post, Pete, I don't agree with all of it but I certainly respect your passion and point of view.

There's no doubt if we do stay up we'll be everyone's favourites to go down the following season - and I include myself in that, logically speaking. I'm not convinced SE is the man for the job but he's the man in the hot seat and it's difficult to see how anybody could build a successful and competitive Championship team given our inherent deficiencies. But, it's been done before...

[TMiller]

for me, the way forward has got to be to basically copy what Swansea have done. Them being where they are now would have been totally unthinkable 20 years ago.

from the outside looking in they seemed to build a brand of football that attracted the fans. i could be wrong but I don't remember them going over the top with transfer signings. they did it with a mixture of players who'd been there in league 2 and astute foreign signings and loans.

If we get our scouting sorted out and get our team shape and style sorted out then we might just get somewhere

[Big Ern]

Pete talks a lot of sense. The second season can be more difficult than the first because you've lost the element of surprise.