Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
What makes you think we will be any better next season?
This league 1 nonsense is a fallacy. yes some clubs came back stronger, some did this because they had the investment to be able to rebuild. if we don't have further investment and are reliant on Mel, then we will be reliant on revenue which would be much less in league 1 and further our decline.

There is the opportunity to reset in the summer, get some players off the wage bill and even without a takeover we would still have a better budget than at least half of the championship.

Rooney, assuming he remains the manager, would be able to get players in after having time to establish what is needed (assuming we can afford it of course) rather than scrabbling around mid season for available loans to make up the numbers.

I don't think it would take too many players to make this team a top half club, add in perhaps a couple of quality loans and who knows, if Barnsley can do it on their budget, its well within Derby's grasp.