Local Loyalty. Getting Behind Your Local Team.

of course not, just saying we are doing well to stay up. we might be more established – whatever that means – than the likes of Hull and Stoke but we arent even in there league when it comes to the wage bill and transfer budget, let alone the rest of them which is what it comes down to in the end. throughout our time in the pl we’ve survived by selling players for more money than we buy them for and then spotting the next one and doing the same again. we’ll only stay up for as long as that continues or we start paying much higher wages and we’re running at a loss every year even after that if the eveneing post is anything to go by

bad choice of words by me there, we are of course a premier league club but I think what I was getting at is that given the size and background of the club it is remarkable achievement that we are a premier league club. of the clubs in the championship, probably around 20 or so of them are “bigger” than us, or would be if we swapped places plus in league one, there’s Leeds, Charlton and Norwich ( and of course Oldham :roll: ) who are bigger than us. they’d all love to be where we are now , just as stoke and burnley are enjoying it at the minute but for some people on here it’s not good considered good enough. someone on here said they want to go down so that we can win more games in the championship….well wtf??? Maybe we should aim to go down and win enough games to finish 12th every season but after a bit people will be moaning that we don’t win enough, so we’ll go and win too many one year and then guess what happens???????

I’d love us to stay in the Prem forever, just to shut the rugby wankers up who can’t wait to see us go down and build a generation of support but unless they change the rules dramatically then winning the thing will always be a tall order, so we are where we are. In a league where the standard is high, mistakes are punished and with a team and a manager who are still learning in a league where youdon’t get time to learn. Players who are the finished article come at a price so just as we used to sign players from non leagues when we were in the lower divisions and pub team players when we were in the non league, we still have to try abroad and the championship because established, finished article Premier League players are unaffordable to us. It’s all about supporting your team, success is a by product which occasionally happens not a guarantee