Did we actually really want to stay up?

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  1. Ome

    Omen Well-Known Member

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    Just been thinking about it and i am now wondering if the club actually wanted to drop and have a good clear out.

    Wipe the slate clean, remove the high earners and old guard with the losing, small club mentality and start a fresh with a young keen squad.

    Stranger things have happened.
     
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    Oh I think we did want to stay up - Had we managed it I think we still would have had the clear out though - might have been some slightly different signings and we might still have had COG and Steele but the rest would still have gone
     
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    Couldn't we have had a clear out then without relegation?
     
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    The clear out was always going to happen, regardless of which division we were going to be in. You could tell that Danny didn't rate half the players he had at his disposal. We would of been aiming for the same type of players we are this year (young and hungry) but they would of been of a higher quality. Danny has just had to scale it down as we were relegated.
     
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    Going down may prove to have a silver lining but given the choice I think most, if not all, at the club would have chosen to stay up. We'd have still got rid of the **** had we been in the championship.
     
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    Sometimes you need to dead head the flowers before the plant blooms again

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    Suppose from a fans perspective too it makes a change from getting ripped apart by teamswith parachute payments or with sugar daddy owners who just throw millions at their teams we can go home and away and not expect defeat before kick off
     
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    Considering we brought in several players on loan in January we definitely wanted to stay up
     
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    The answer to the opening question is of course we wanted to stay up. But I agree with the underlying sentiment; that relegation MAY turn out to be a blessing in disguise. It would be nice to see us win a few games and look up rather than down at the table each week.
     
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    Omen Well-Known Member

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    thats debatable

    i think one by one they all ended up out of the team.
     
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    I don't think we wanted to go down.

    But if we had I think we wouldn't have been able to afford the clear out we are having now and been able to bring Championship quality in.

    I think there is a big financial crunch coming for The Championship in the next few years. I think some Championship clubs may go out of business.
     
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