Hi Dave, Not sure if that's a given.
Glancing at the end of season Premier table from the last few years, typically one of the relegated three go back up and the other two will have spent/bet the parachute money in trying to stay up beforehand. Looking at this year's Prem relegation candidates: - QPR have a £40m fine waiting for them. - Villa are big but have no money - Burnley, well run, but who wants to go to Burnley? All of them who go down have to build entire new teams and we know from this season how hit and miss that is. BMW --- Original Message --- From: nat...@sky.com Sent: 1 March 2015 13:21 To: "leeds list" <leedslist@gn.apc.org> Subject: Re: [LU] 1 - 0 Sharp Even worse are our long term prospects. I do not generally bother with the Prem but whilst in the pub the League table came on. Looking at the bottom 4 - Leicester, Burnley and QPR have all walked away with our Division in recent years and look well equipped to bounce right back again.The other likely contenders for relegation are Villa and whilst I know little about them, they are a good sized club so their crowds plus parachute money will stop them doing a Wigan or Blackpool and dropping down the Divisions. So next season we will be up against the likes of these from the Prem plus whoever does not go up - say Watford, Ipswich etc. This means our chances of anything better than a play off place (where our record is abysmal) are very slim indeed. Yet to have any chance at all we need to convince Byram and Mowatt to stay for a third season, and Cook for a second one in the face of Premier teams trying to take them away for double or even triple the money they can get at ER. Taylor will be in the same boat of he continues to impressOur only hope as things stand is to keep all these home grown youngsters and add enough quality to make it all work.So for me, unless something drastic happens we are in trouble long term. IF the TV money in the Prem continues as it is then we will in effect have a 22 team Premier League with 19 actually playing in the Premier League and 3 temporarily in the Championship and swapping with 3 more at the end of each season.The only 'drastic' things that could happen are either Sky and football going bust - the talk of there soon being a £1m per week footballer is already out there- or us attracting someone with real cash that they will pump into the club. Hopefully Cellino has put us in a better and just as importantly clearer, financial position so that someone may just be tempted, pour £10 or £15m into the club and then recoup that and more when we go up. Both these seem unlikley at present Dave _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org John 'Grampa' Sykes Rest In Peace old lad 28th Oct 1938 - 12 Nov 2013 MARCHING ON TOGETHER
