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Only if we hired a monumentally not up to it manager to try to keep us up after sacking a previous monumentally not up to it manager, blow all the likely pl income the season before gambling on the promotion, fail to generate any sizanble sponsorship and get it into our heads thatRobbie Savage is a good thing. If we do that again it could happen. But we're not the fool me twice merchants from down the road. So relax. Even Burnley will be fine when they come down as they refuse to come in at min wage plus 20p per goal for their payers.

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Bottom 5:

 

Birmingham - money troubles, criminal owners, paper thin squad that loses its best players as soon as it finds them.

 

Wigan - poor start to the season, but I think this is a false position for them. Not massively cash rich again, but spent a bit in the summer.

 

Fulham - mass exodus of experienced players and a manager not fit for the league. Kit Symons starting to turn it round?

 

Bolton - massive debt problems, c

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It's no surprise when you think about it. Clubs are often relegated from the Premier League because they're poorly run...it sounds like a mental idea to reward that failure with even more money, and I can see a lot of clubs spending their way into more debt.

 

We will be fine because if we get relegated, we won't release our squad, spunk all our money on one competent striker and then fill the rest of the team with youth players. I'm fairly confident there are enough people with enough brain cells at the club who wouldn't let that happen.

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The problem with parachute payments is that they aren't being used how it was intended.

 

Instead of clubs using to ease their higher paid players out, and cope with the hit in attendances/TV money etc., they simply spunk it away in a (usually) vain effort to get back to the PL. 

 

Interesting to see though, that Norwich have done the former rather than the latter, and look where it's got them so far.

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Let's get over the line first. The rest will take care of itself.

As the lads say ... the common denominator of those clubs mentioned here is that they are being run into the ground by a bunch of absolute prats.

We have had our fill of that as a club, and won't be going down that route again.

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QPR next season too. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't enter free fall in back to back seasons.

 

Graham Taylor's attitude of responsible management and not living beyond your means at Watford hasn't caught on.  Planning for the prem and likely relegation begins in the Championship.

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I hope we can maintain the way the club is being run if we go up. Everyone will want a big pay rise if we go up and rightly so, but they are not happy taking pay cuts when we go down.

A lot of people will remember the 3 amigo's fleecing us, and the older ones will remember the farcical state we were in, when the club had people begging with buckets in the 80's. Don't want to see Derby in trouble again. 

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The thing to remember is, that we have a manager who has already done it in the top flight.

Kept Middlesbro' ticking over very nicely, signed some excellent players, won them a cup, and took them on a very brave European run.

I will take some of that any day of the week.

It is all about keeping your feet on the ground, and doing the right things for the good of the team and the club. The fans also need to stay patient. 

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By the way, Pompey are debtfree nowadays and owned by Fans Trust.

 

Would that be bad option for those who are dropping like stone? I know here is couple Skyhaters here who could find this kind of solution very tempting.

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Got to agree with what has been said regarding those sides - really poorly run.

 

Fulham were arguably the worst though, as they had everything there to stay up on a consistant basis. Their problem was the age of their squad - it was simply a Dad's army training camp there. I think the season before last, their average age was around 32, an insane figure.

 

They never invested gradually in youth, and that is what you have to do to survive.

 

Southampton have it off to a tee, they can sell their players, replace them with foreigners but also have that stream of youth players to back them up due to proper care with the youth system. Not only that, their style in play isn't the survival longball stuff trotted out by the likes of Steve Bruce every year. Their potential is so much more.

 

I honestly think we were far better prepared to go up instead of QPR (another Fulham with their oldies) and Burnley (simply not good enough).

 

I'm confident with the people currently running DCFC that we'll be fine when we go up. We will recruit players to fit our system rather than just sign any 'big name' and we'll invest accordingly in the youth in preparation for when our better players or sold or if worst comes to worst we get relegated.

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if you look at the table it is a bit of a worry that the bottom 5 have all recently been in the premiership and are now in free fall. Is it really the promised land or is that going to be us in three years time.

 

What do you guys think, put my mind at rest and tell me, "we'll be fine"

"We'll be fine"

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The bottom 5 are badly run, do we need to add to that, which Animalisa wrote, no.

But, to put your mind at rest... This was a concern i had and wrote about here a few times,that we could win at wembley, go up, be underfunded, sack Mac at Xmas, and be back to square 1 by summer 2015...

But i feel the club has turned a corner, Mac etc got new contracts, the board finally seem to be committed to building success, even the 'Global Brand' and i for one am as happy as ive been for donkeys years with the club.

Also lets not forget the investment in the youth, Calero, Bunjaku,Santos, Koblenz, and the academy boys like Kwane Thomas,Hanson, Lowe, Wixted, Lelan, Vernam etc etc, all potentially great talents....

One last point, I dont think they will ditch Mac if we have a change of form/results even in the prem, which relieves me as i think he's a great coach... i think they are as committed to him as they were to he who cant be named, and i also feel, they will now ( i think they saw the light back in May when they read about the wembley game being worth 120M ) back Mac with funds to build when we go up in May. :rolleyes:

The future is bright ... Onwards and Upwards

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