Quote Originally Posted by TheOtherTerryMac View Post
Better to have tried and failed than never tried at all

We did try and very nearly got there but that’s all in our glorious past watching some of the most exciting football ever seen at St James’s Park. We weren’t called the Entertainers for nothing

All we have to look forward to now is a relegation battle every season
I agree in that respect.
Football has went haywire.
We had the opportunity at that time to take the bull by the horns and just about did that. But weirdly, when we failed to get that form grip, that was when the tish hit the fan. This is when football went from the local sugar daddy with the odd millions and the bottle to go cap in hand to banks, to oil barons who went for immediate smash and grab the lot.

We can't compete with those even now....not yet...until that mental money merry-go-round is played on an absolute level playing field.
We could likely spend a few hundred million and have a right go at something. The problem is....what something?

All we'd likely do is have a squad of mixed up players among overpaid mercenaries who literally don't give a flying fluke about the club or the fans, or anything outside of their own bank balance.

Ashley's not stupid. I believe he knows we can't compete against those who are basically allowed to take the pedestals. I believe he knows we're all playing for the scraps from those placements of the usual suspect clubs.

As for trying. I think all clubs are trying but it's against the potential of scraps to eat but paying handsomely for the privilege of feeding on those scraps.

We could be a million miles worse off.
I happen to have a lot more optimism this season for much better football at the very least.