I'm a bit ambivalent to be honest

In fact until the advent of St Paul of Colchester I actively did NOT want to go up.

Let's face some facts.

(a) We would be a lower half of the table Prem club. That's inevitable. It's all about money now - the more money you have, the better the players you can hire, the higher you finish. Simples. If you're a new arrival without a sheikh or an oligarch, you're going to be a bottom feeder.

(b) It follows from (a) that the season would be one long nervous fight against relegation. We'd lose more than we won. We'd get dicked, properly dicked, more than once. Coming one above the relegation zone would be a successful season.

(c) Our financial position would be likely to get worse, not better. That's what happened last time we went up - our debts increased. So the annual fight against relegation would have the added spice that if we went down, we might go bust. Nasty.

(d) And don't think that unearthing talent would save us. We'd inevitably lose our best talent (manager included) to richer teams. Just think of Carroll, Charlie Adam, Cheating Diving Cunt Andy Johnson, Moyes. Remember Bellamy, Ashton, Green. Money moves people around.

So in summary, promotion would make us into an insignificant club losing more games than it wins, whose only function in life is to spot and develop talent for richer clubs, and whose only ambition is to stay up in order to avert financial disaster.

I know that all the above is true. And yet I just have this longing to see what Super Paul could do in the Prem with a bigger budget ...

Posted By: Old Git, Apr 19, 11:08:36