Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
Funnily enough, I was thinking about this on Friday evening and almost posted something similar.
I think it's a question worth asking.
We know that Warnock won't be here next season if the club aren't planning on funding a promotion attempt. We know there isn't the quality here to have a go at the playoffs.
So by logic, if Warnock is here in August, it's because there's money to spend. That, then, presents two possible scenarios.
1) Warnock is given the money with no assurances of whether he'll continue as manager in a year's time. This could mean we spend money getting promotion only for a new manager to rip up whatever Warnock has done and want to build his own team (and we all know where that approach gets us).
2) The club look longer term and give a new manager that money with a view to building towards promotion and developing a style, squad and structure that would survive in the Premier League, albeit that the new manager might end up taking us backwards again.
It's a peculiar conundrum that's got to be worthy of some discussion!