.... in fact the more I think about it, the more I see that whilst one of the three who drop down will go back up the next season, the other two usually have to suffer a complete financial meltdown that was brought about by the Prem salaries, with the day of reckoning then arriving finally after relegation.
Look at Blackpool, Bolton, Wigan, Portsmouth, Birmingham, Charlton... Cardiff are almost certainly stacked up high with internal loans. Derby, Reading, Wolves, Blackburn were all relegated in the last six or seven years - only Derby under McClaren are now back in shape. Anyhow my overall point I suppose is that those teams in from the Premier have in most cases minimal advantage: the parachute payments are spent before they even get them and they are all in various stages of pandemonium when the Championship begins. Anyhow, after the recent purge of the Warnock era deadwood, who's left? Austin has until the end of the season, what about the Morison goal machine, and Andy White? BMW --- Original Message --- From: "Richard Naef" <rich...@triumph-computers.co.uk> Sent: 1 March 2015 18:59 To: "'leeds list'" <leedslist@gn.apc.org> Subject: Re: [LU] 1 - 0 Sharp Yeah, look at the top half of the table Only Norwich have been in the premier in the last couple of years. Actually what has happened is that more and more teams are rising to the top of the championship and while it is true that once there it is hard to stay up there, I'm not sure our chances of going up are any worse than in the last few years. The key is going to be consistency, keeping as many of the youth as poss, BUT adding to the team some experience, hoped that the likes of Bamba and Sharp might be that experience but after the last couple of performances I'm not so sure, oh for a Gordon Strachan! > -----Original Message----- > From: leedslist-boun...@gn.apc.org [mailto:leedslist-boun...@gn.apc.org] On > Behalf Of Brendan > Sent: 01 March 2015 16:15 > To: leeds list > Subject: Re: [LU] 1 - 0 Sharp > > Hi Dave, > > Not sure if that's a given. > > Glancing at the end of season Premier table from the last few years, typically > one of the relegated three go back up and the other two will have spent/bet > the > parachute money in trying to stay up beforehand. > > Looking at this year's Prem relegation candidates: > - QPR have a £40m fine waiting for them. > - Villa are big but have no money > - Burnley, well run, but who wants to go to Burnley? > > All of them who go down have to build entire new teams and we know from this > season how hit and miss that is. > > BMW > > --- Original Message --- > > From: nat...@sky.com > Sent: 1 March 2015 13:21 > To: "leeds list" <leedslist@gn.apc.org> > Subject: Re: [LU] 1 - 0 Sharp > > Even worse are our long term prospects. I do not generally bother with the > Prem > but whilst in the pub the League table came on. Looking at the bottom 4 - > Leicester, Burnley and QPR have all walked away with our Division in recent > years and look well equipped to bounce right back again.The other likely > contenders for relegation are Villa and whilst I know little about them, they > are > a good sized club so their crowds plus parachute money will stop them doing a > Wigan or Blackpool and dropping down the Divisions. So next season we will be > up against the likes of these from the Prem plus whoever does not go up - say > Watford, Ipswich etc. This means our chances of anything better than a play > off > place (where our record is abysmal) are very slim indeed. Yet to have any > chance > at all we need to convince Byram and Mowatt to stay for a third season, and > Cook for a second one in the face of Premier teams trying to take them away > for double or even triple the money they can get at ER. Taylor will be in the > same boat of he continues to impressOur only hope as things stand is to keep > all > these home grown youngsters and add enough quality to make it all work.So for > me, unless something drastic happens we are in trouble long term. IF the TV > money in the Prem continues as it is then we will in effect have a 22 team > Premier League with 19 actually playing in the Premier League and 3 > temporarily > in the Championship and swapping with 3 more at the end of each season.The > only 'drastic' things that could happen are either Sky and football going > bust - > the talk of there soon being a £1m per week footballer is already out there- > or > us attracting someone with real cash that they will pump into the club. > Hopefully > Cellino has put us in a better and just as importantly clearer, financial > position so > that someone may just be tempted, pour £10 or £15m into the club and then > recoup that and more when we go up. Both these seem unlikley at present Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org > > John 'Grampa' Sykes > Rest In Peace old lad > 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 > MARCHING ON TOGETHER > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org > > John 'Grampa' Sykes > Rest In Peace old lad > 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 > MARCHING ON TOGETHER _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER
