SutekhJackson Corner Well Luton Millwall Coventry have done ok. I would be delighted if we had there seasons. Are they any bigger than us?
Reading did have a season like them, unfortunately though they had a manager with the tactical nous of a banana and that was the end of that.
And while Reading have mis-spent on cr@p players, it’s been the club’s continual appointment of managers with less ability than various types of fruit that has put the club where it is today. Have to say I’m still not seeing any improvement in that area as Ince always gives the impression he’s accidentally stumbled across a good performance through circumstances forced on the club rather than actually achieved one by design.
FFP is not fit for purpose and the fact you get three clubs injected into the division every year that can wildly overspend with the approval of the FL just beggars belief. I think the FL should be screwing the relegated clubs to the ground and making it difficult if not impossible for them to spend or keep a massive playing rota of overpaid failures on their books at the same rates but no that’s too sensible. But until the stupidity of parachute payments is dumped the Championship/Division 2 is seeming going to be stuck on this ridiculous roundabout.
And I don’t want the club playing back in Division 3 at any cost, just a shrewd, flexible, manager and an intelligent recruitment policy like the club had 20 years ago. Might mean a struggle but at least I there’d be a better chance of not getting the unentertaining garbage that we’ve had to endure for a decade now.
You keep going on about the parachute payments without putting the context around the fact that the relegated teams were, in fact, in the PL the season before.
On that basis it would be reasonable to expect that they would be stronger than the non-promoted sides in the Championship anyway