I don't think we specifically want relegation ....... I do think we are prepared to take the risk, because it also creates success we can achieve (as well as failure we can fight against). There are financial and psychological rewards to yo yoing. We sail close to a financial wind and sometimes bringing in the lifeboat isn't enough to save us.
If I can look at our team at the season's start and think our midfield looks weak and our defence dodgy, then isn't it likely a pro' like Danny Wilson knew that too? And assuming he didn't actually want the sack there has to be an explanation why he didn't do more.
There is an absence of openness about the club, so we don't know why Paul Mitchell left, and we are left to guess why the club repeatedly chooses to lose out on a player who has been a success, just because of his wage demands. What are the economics of maintaining a wage cap at the cost of losing a place in Division One?
I'm afraid 57 years of watching the club going precisely nowhere has finally convinced me that decent men and the corrupt too have looked at us and decided this is us. In Division Two we are promotable, but Division One is topped by our very own glass ceiling. Even when we hit the play-offs in Division One we played rush-goalies and our manager was simultaneously talking to another club.
Danny is what, 57? You either have to believe that he has lost all the managerial ability that got Barnsley to the Premier League, OR there are factors about Chesterfield that make getting us to mid-table in Division One harder than the huge job he faced at Barnsley.
We can make Danny our wicker man and burn him on our pyre. A new saviour might climb us excitingly up the division, but in two years, unless the club changes radically, we'll be building him a pyre too.
I think it is a mistake to imagine that a club chairman or chief executive has the same motivations and loves as a life-long supporter. If our Chairman were called Bluepooch, even if we were next to the bottom of Division Two I'd know that in his heart of hearts he'd have us in the Championship if he could. We'd be fools not to suspect the motives of those in charge of the club. However good a young player we produce, however much we sell him for, we won't pay down our debt to our Chairman. We can breathe a sigh of relief that he has us on such a lifeline, or we can see that lifeline as merely a chain binding us to him.
If I can look at our team at the season's start and think our midfield looks weak and our defence dodgy, then isn't it likely a pro' like Danny Wilson knew that too? And assuming he didn't actually want the sack there has to be an explanation why he didn't do more.
There is an absence of openness about the club, so we don't know why Paul Mitchell left, and we are left to guess why the club repeatedly chooses to lose out on a player who has been a success, just because of his wage demands. What are the economics of maintaining a wage cap at the cost of losing a place in Division One?
I'm afraid 57 years of watching the club going precisely nowhere has finally convinced me that decent men and the corrupt too have looked at us and decided this is us. In Division Two we are promotable, but Division One is topped by our very own glass ceiling. Even when we hit the play-offs in Division One we played rush-goalies and our manager was simultaneously talking to another club.
Danny is what, 57? You either have to believe that he has lost all the managerial ability that got Barnsley to the Premier League, OR there are factors about Chesterfield that make getting us to mid-table in Division One harder than the huge job he faced at Barnsley.
We can make Danny our wicker man and burn him on our pyre. A new saviour might climb us excitingly up the division, but in two years, unless the club changes radically, we'll be building him a pyre too.
I think it is a mistake to imagine that a club chairman or chief executive has the same motivations and loves as a life-long supporter. If our Chairman were called Bluepooch, even if we were next to the bottom of Division Two I'd know that in his heart of hearts he'd have us in the Championship if he could. We'd be fools not to suspect the motives of those in charge of the club. However good a young player we produce, however much we sell him for, we won't pay down our debt to our Chairman. We can breathe a sigh of relief that he has us on such a lifeline, or we can see that lifeline as merely a chain binding us to him.