Quote Originally Posted by wrinkly View Post
I'm with Monty on this one.

Would we struggle in the championship? Almost certainly. The average attendance in the championship this season is 20,500. Apart from the two lowest attended clubs all the other clubs had average attendances higher than our maximum capacity. We would be very small fish in the Championship pond.

Would we be better "delaying" promotion? Absolutely not.
Who knows how long before we got another chance? As Monty says, nothing is going to change dramatically over the coming years to make us a bigger club.

This is not down to lack of ambition it is just realism.
Nobody is going to come in and plough millions into the club to make us serious competitors in the Championship. Even if they did, it would be a debt not a gift and we've been there before - no more bucket collections please!

We are not going to develop a brilliant academy and rake in the dosh from a "grow your own" policy.

Our fan base is not likely to grow much (the slow take up on play-off tickets proves that)

I believe we are a top of the third tier club and likely to remain so, with spells in the league above from time to time.

I'm happy with that. It's how it's been (or much worse) in my 50 odd years of supporting the Millers.

Although we would struggle I doubt that we will have the same debacle as last year. Avoiding relegation, taking the odd big scalp (and Wednesday) and getting past the third round of the FA cup (ok that's a bit far-fetched) would be brilliant for me.
Excellent post that encapsulates the realities of being a Miller.
Let's just go for it and hope that we're good enough to get to the Championship. On our day we certainly are. Whether we can stay there is another matter altogether but there's no right or wrong time for a club like ours to get promoted.
We can expect investment to be limited because that's the nature of our position in the pecking order but TS has said valuable lessons have been learned from our last foray into the Championship.
Let's hope he's true to his word and, if we get there, that we make a better fist of it this time around. We never want to experience anything like last season's debacle again.
Onwards and upwards.........UTM.