earleyroyalAlan Partridge
What the hell are you on about? I'm still fairly annoyed that the team we had 3 years ago would absolutely rinse our current team, that's without the enormous sums of money gone into the club during that spell.
I challenge anyone to argue with this statement and/or argue that it doesn't suggest a failure on behalf of the club.
On the other hand I don't want people reading into that I want the board to be sacked blah blah blah, but it's hard to rationally disagree with that statement.
You can't because in assembling that side on the budget we did was a miracle. The cost of improving that team in the Premiership would far outweigh our resources/ambition call it what you will. Look at what Sidwell is worth now and consider how much an improvement would cost.
That side listed was the greatest this club has seen and quite possibly the most cheaply assembled side to finish 8th in the modern premiership era . Unless Coppell (or clueless idiot as he appears to be considered by some) can work the same miracle again then its unlikley to be bettered.
Could we have borought in better players than we did? Certainly but would be able to better that side? doubtful.