Arganth: is it THAT simple?

A thought flashed through my head earlier. What happens on the pitch at most club usually mirrors what's going on off it: for example, our emergence in 01/2 paralleled a great deal of investment in the team for the first time in many years, and there was a real sense of the club starting to go places (isn't that what David Healy kept saying when we brought him on loan here?).

Whereas maybe, maybe, getting relegated two years ago actually put us in far more financial trouble than most of us realised: maybe the board HAD actually gambled on staying up, and contrary to what most people (including in the national media) thought about how 'well run' we were, going down actually put us deep in the s**t. It'd certainly explain why we have such a thin squad; it'd also explain why things went so wrong for Worthington in his final year here. Given he only succeeded when things off the field were going well, it'd be hardly surprising if he failed because he was grappling with a much worse financial reality than many of us assumed.

Posted By: thebigfeller, Feb 27, 00:21:16