20-02-2015, 16:17
We have two permanent signings up front, plus one loanee who I think from his style of play was meant to replicate Doyle. We also have almost all the money from selling Doyle. That should make us stronger, but we are losing (but maybe we'd have been doing that anyway).
If you look at Championship gates they tend to be 12,000+. The maximum we could expect without a sea change is 10,000 (and we'd need to be winning a lot to reach that). So the Championship isn't our natural level. Equally the Premiership is a rich man's club where Burnley and Bournemouth hardly seem to fit. They, like us, have to dream ..... and then they have to find ways of financing that dream. I'd love us to be doing that too.
We are bound to lose our best players to financial pressure, but so did Exeter, Rochdale, MKD etc. We have to use those deals to come out stronger and find new talent. That isn't likely to make our progress a smooth upward curve. Pooch, Dancing and I are all old enough to know that smooth, upward and Chesterfield are words rarely found in the same sentence.
If you look at Championship gates they tend to be 12,000+. The maximum we could expect without a sea change is 10,000 (and we'd need to be winning a lot to reach that). So the Championship isn't our natural level. Equally the Premiership is a rich man's club where Burnley and Bournemouth hardly seem to fit. They, like us, have to dream ..... and then they have to find ways of financing that dream. I'd love us to be doing that too.
We are bound to lose our best players to financial pressure, but so did Exeter, Rochdale, MKD etc. We have to use those deals to come out stronger and find new talent. That isn't likely to make our progress a smooth upward curve. Pooch, Dancing and I are all old enough to know that smooth, upward and Chesterfield are words rarely found in the same sentence.