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relegated this year? i am tempted to put a tenner on it.
No we couldn't have been. At the time Trollope was sacked, we were on 8 points. At the end of the year, the team above the relegation zone was on 20 points. With 23 games remaining, there were 69 points on offer, so there was absolutely no chance of us being mathematically relegated on Dec 31st. We couldn't have been relegated on Jan 31st, Feb 31st or March 31st either.
The thing with getting our main transfer business done so early is that most other clubs are still in the team building stage and they will be making a lot more signings between now and the end of August than we will. For now, many of our rival's squads will look much like they did last season and so we can look at them and think we have a better squad than them at the moment.
However, it's in the nature of things that we'll look at the signings other clubs will make in the next few weeks and become more pessimistic about our chances as cash is splashed elsewhere. Of course, there will be sides who spend a lot only to be mediocre mid tablers or worse - that's what happened to the wurzels last season, but I'd be surprised if they went down this time.