[madsteve]

Youre doing sg a disservice there, it's the Top 19 teams because you don't count us

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And there's no way we have a top 9 budget, we spent fuuuck all until Antonio went

Also our home form is diabolical but with this new pitch hopefully that will be rectified. Last season we didn't play defensive, this season we've been forced into it

We had the 15th biggest budget last season. MM said he was increasing it to a top ten budget for this season. It depends whether you believe MM or not. He certainly increased it but whether that takes it into the top ten, we won't know until next December. We do know that Westwood, Kirkland, Lees, Dielna, Loovens & May are all on the new top wage of £14k per week. Four of those deals were signed before Antonio left. Incidentally, Antonio was on £9k per week, which shows how our wages have shot up over the last two years.

The pitch is a total red herring thrown out there by SG as an excuse. The pitch was fine up until the Blackpool match so there was no excuse for our terrible home record for the first eleven matches, of which we won just two and scored just five goals. Ironically, we have got slightly better results since the pitch became bad, winning two out of eight and scoring seven goals.