Mick McCarthy

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Mick McCarthy

Leeds spent about 10 years in the championship after coming back up from league one before finally making it to the premier League. despite being comfortably one of the, if not the best supported sides in the division for all of that time.
their income is massive compared to ours, they should have been competitive a lot sooner than they were.
there is nothing to suggest that a spell in league one did anything to help them towards their current situation. in fact it probably delayed their progress

Leeds attendances fluctuated quite a bit during the time, where they were as low as 8th in the Championship attendance table on more than one occasion.

After they won promotion from League 1 they were right in the mix for the second automatic promotion spot in March until an end of season collapse saw them finish 7th. After that season they finished in the bottom half 6 out of the next 7 seasons.

[Rjk]

Re: Mick McCarthy

But we did have a few installments of parachute payments in that time, plus the money we should have made while the sun shone in the two Premier League seasons yet we're as far behind Leeds as we have been in the last however many years (10 certainly).

All this with our great owner and board...

yes we wasted our two promotions massively, but what we are doing NOW seems to have more thought behind it.
getting rid of the remaining high earners
stabilising in mid table
bringing youth players through while we do the above 2 things are all exactly what I think we should be doing now.
other clubs in this situation have thrown good money after bad and got into a real mess so at least we aren't doing that
we've made some very difficult decisions on some players and we will probably have to get used to a few bad results this season and perhaps next.