Quote Originally Posted by surge View Post
Open challenge: name me a club that has successfully jumped to play a more expansive game (when not starting in league one or two) without money to spend or having invested a lot in their academy.

Swansea - their journey started in league one.
Brighton - they had invested a lot in their academy and had money to spend
Manchester City - Pep only goes where he has money to spend to bring in his sort of player.

Harris is a stepping stone in the right direction and might get us promotion. This thread is about longer term planning and people want to take a massive jump without any resources, partly because of philosophy of previous manager, to back it up with.
Their journey started in League 1 but would have been a decision and they would have employed a manager that started changing that style.

I'd say we have spent as much as Brighton over their period prior to being promoted to have more than bedded in a new style.

I would also say that the incremental change of manager would cost more and take longer than getting a manager in with an attractive style and letting him change it as and when the finances allow. If the fans could see this is what he was trying to do I'm sure there would be more patience too.

You mention the academy and I agree ours isn't fit for purpose given what it has produced. I would not expect our board to know what was going wrong with it or put people in place to remedy it. They certainly wouldn't look at examples of a good, successful academy and replicate it that's for sure.