Yes, VERY good point

As I've written before, because of the ITV Digital fallout, we HAD to go up in 03/4, and would've been screwed if we hadn't (I actually remember reading a magazine interview with Doncaster the year before when he'd as good as admitted we had to be promoted by the end of the following season). But our success was built on sand: and what scares me is if we needed to spend so much to break out of mid-table drift and become contenders again, how exactly are we going to do it this time around without anything comparable to the ITV Digital funds suddenly becoming available?

But you're quite right: unless we had truly established ourselves in the Prem, promotion could only ever just delay things. A bit like our success in 92/3 just delayed the horrendous post-relegation fallout by a couple of years: we almost went down in 91/2, and then a whirlwind 18 months were followed by an equally fast plummet back to where, in reality, we actually were (or expected to be) just as the Premier League began in earnest.

Posted By: thebigfeller on February 27th 2007 at 00:47:49

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Serious question (NCFC) - windowlicker, Feb 26, 23:53:38
- We are, yes... (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 27, 00:14:44
- luton and barnsley away this week... (NCFC) - phrankin, Feb 26, 23:56:32
  - Yep, but conversely we could relegate you (NCFC) - windowlicker, Feb 27, 00:00:16
    - we have loads of injuries against luton 2morrow (NCFC) - phrankin, Feb 27, 00:02:20
      - The lad up front looks (NCFC) - windowlicker, Feb 27, 00:04:46
        
        has a few international caps... A total steal (n/m) (NCFC) - phrankin, Feb 27, 00:07:55
- we're both in the sh1t bascically (NCFC) - Willsnarf1983, Feb 26, 23:56:23
  - They're not scoring and we're not keeping clean sheets. (n/m) (NCFC) - Arganth, Feb 26, 23:56:53
    - we should be safe.... (NCFC) - phrankin, Feb 26, 23:58:52
      - We should be safe too (NCFC) - windowlicker, Feb 27, 00:03:21
        
        Drury, Huckerby, Safri are all that's left, plus some of the kids. (NCFC) - Arganth, Feb 27, 00:07:44
        
        Arganth: is it THAT simple? (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 27, 00:21:16
        
        Well, Hucks was signed on the assumption that we would go up (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Feb 27, 00:37:17
        
        Oh, and we managed to spunk hundreds of thousands on agents fees (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Feb 27, 00:41:32
        
        I think you could be right. (NCFC) - Arganth, Feb 27, 00:34:33
        
        Spent on fixed assets, and off-the-pitch activity... (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 27, 00:40:48
        
        Perhaps, but for me there are two major differences between then and now. (NCFC) - Arganth, Feb 27, 00:48:19
        
        Chase was a bit different - he sailed very close to the wind financially (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Feb 27, 00:48:05
        
        All very good points BC and Arganth... (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 27, 01:15:35
        
        when you look back... (NCFC) - colincanary, Feb 27, 00:40:31
        
        Yes, VERY good point (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 27, 00:47:49
        
        The irony is.. (NCFC) - colincanary, Feb 27, 00:55:54
        
        Hmm I dunno. (NCFC) - Arganth, Feb 27, 00:57:56
        
        yes, you are probably right ! I am just an old romantic ! (n/m) (NCFC) - colincanary, Feb 27, 01:01:26
        
        Oh, and Dohrty of course. Was Gallacher here then too ? (n/m) (NCFC) - Arganth, Feb 27, 00:12:24
        
        A lot of dross are still getting games (NCFC) - phrankin, Feb 27, 00:08:55

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