Yesterday's performance.

[talkSAFT]

Why do the media insist that we are a small Club, and that we are lucky to have TP at the helm?
Some to$$er on talkSPORT mentioned this morning that Clubs like us will always struggle and we should thank ourselves lucky to make up the 20 Prem Clubs because of "the size" of our Club.

No! We are the 11th biggest Club in terms of the Football League's history (and the 9th best in terms of advancement in the F.A.Cup). What more do we have to do to assure people of our pedigree? Their argument is no doubt that we've done little since the Premier came into existence, and younger journalists look no further than the last 20 years. They're too lazy to appreciate what we've achieved in our 138 years.
If they measure our status through our feeble Home attendances, then they may be right, but it's certainly no measure of success: Revenue through the terraces is almost overshadowed by TV Revenue these days.
Why do our fans have such an inferiority complex, and believe we are lucky to have a Head Coach who sees us as a Club that can only survive by nicking a few scrappy draws with 25% possession of the ball? If we had seen the season through to the end in March/April/May we'd have been paid almost as much by finishing 7th than through our Turnstile Revenue.

[WBA123]

Why do the media insist that we are a small Club, and that we are lucky to have TP at the helm?
Some to$$er on talkSPORT mentioned this morning that Clubs like us will always struggle and we should thank ourselves lucky to make up the 20 Prem Clubs because of "the size" of our Club.

No! We are the 11th biggest Club in terms of the Football League's history (and the 9th best in terms of advancement in the F.A.Cup). What more do we have to do to assure people of our pedigree? Their argument is no doubt that we've done little since the Premier came into existence, and younger journalists look no further than the last 20 years. They're too lazy to appreciate what we've achieved in our 138 years.
If they measure our status through our feeble Home attendances, then they may be right, but it's certainly no measure of success: Revenue through the terraces is almost overshadowed by TV Revenue these days.
Why do our fans have such an inferiority complex, and believe we are lucky to have a Head Coach who sees us as a Club that can only survive by nicking a few scrappy draws with 25% possession of the ball? If we had seen the season through to the end in March/April/May we'd have been paid almost as much by finishing 7th than through our Turnstile Revenue.

What is a big club?
- Attendances...we're low on that compared the rest of the league.
- Finances...we're about halfway up for wages and a lot lower than that for transfer fees
- Silverware...We haven't won anything for 50 years

We're not a small club, but we''re not a big one in the premiership unfortunately. And in the eyes of the media, we don't exist. Outside of the top 6/7, and the London clubs who get a lot of media profile such as West Ham. Who else does? Perhaps Newcastle...that's it.

Its annoying when we get put down in the national media, but I do feel happy every season we manage to stay in the league. That in itself gives us greater profile, exposure and finances than being in the championship. I often think that Wolves fans thought they deserved to be in the prem, whereas we're just happy to be there. Each passing year we are in the prem though, the more I fear us as fans are thinking like Wolves fans were a few years back.

I remember the time when I could never see us back in the top flight, in the early to mid 90's. I don't want to go back to those days...