Quote Originally Posted by blue lewj View Post
Maybe so. You don't compound it by having that squad assembled, at least partly, by a man with no experience though. If the time was needed for an experienced head then that was it.
I agree. However, there needs to be some balance here. This season's playing budget is definitely not a stick to beat Tan and Co with. After the disastrously large fees paid and the ludicrously high wage bill created during the latter stages of the Warnock era, the club's hierarchy had no option but to reduce the budget significantly this season. The club lost Ł29 million last season and the parachute payments are a thing of the past. A failure to reduce the budget would almost certainly have resulted in points deductions next season, and we can certainly do without those regardless of what division we are in.