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We're now into the blame game. Well for me it's our owners. No investment and sold our better players to comply with PSR. If our new owners had kept a couple and purchased 2 or 3 quality players. Paid our £39 million debt off we would have had a 6 point deduction but we would be nowhere near getting relegated. They should sell up for £15 million because that's all they have put in.
Our players are not good enough and we won't pay a proper manager to come in and sort things out. Penny pinching has destroyed the club.
Relegation is almost a certainty now.
No chance of coming back up and the likes of MJ, Boatock, will be sold off to offset loses in revenue.
We're going to be the new Walsall.
Real shame but that IMO is what we have become.

I absolutely agree, Bluebaggie, that the owners have a real responsibility for this with regard to the appointment of two coaches, both of whom have proven to be both too inexperienced and tactically inept.

However, I don’t agree with your assessment of the financial situation: this club was left in a total mess by Lai and what Bilkul have had to do is slowly (and it is slowly) restore our finances. It’s been painful and it will now most likely prove costly but your solution of taking points deductions while putting in £39 million to clear the debt is, in my view, too simplistic. Just because Leicester took a 6 point hit, there is no guarantee ours would have been the same and it could have mirrored Sheffield Wednesday’s instead. I suspect we haven’t seen the full picture of the state Lai left us in but I fear it may have been worse than we believe.

I think we’d all agree that the current squad is so lacking in ability and fight that it’s pitiful. We need a huge clear out post season of those whose contract is up and we’ll undoubtedly also lose some players we might wish to keep and who would likely do well in league 1 (Johnson, Heggebo). Unfortunately the rest will be unwanted.

I’m not disagreeing with your comments, Blue, on the owner’s culpability, I just think we have to be more realistic

Spot on IMHO, BSteve