Clubs finishing top of the fizzy pop league with room to spare often perform well in their first season....
Didn't Curbs get to 9th in his first season? Peter Reid did similar with Sunderland....Look at Reading this season?....Wigan last year.....I'm sure you can recall others with little difficulty....
The reason is because those clubs are/were on a roll, they've got/had the winning habit....got/had winning players.....Sooner or later though, they all drop down the table and enter the relegation battle, why?
Apart from the common denominator of the lack of experience from these managers, sooner or later they realise there's more to managing a team in the prem than talent, you need cash, big cash.....
Where we might spend £12 million to buy 10/12 players the richer clubs spend that on players that don't even get out of the RESERVES!!! At that level we cannot compete with the 'big boys' if we want to win anything, but, if we just want to stay up then that's a different story.
The bottom clubs are all more or less playing with a level playing field, roughly the same amount of cash available, good squad of homegrown/international talent, good fan support, interested and supportive board, usually a manager with recent short term success etc....
So, if we are created equal and we want to be the best of a poor bunch we need to creat an edge that gives us the advantage over our closest rivals, the only way to achieve this is with.......
A top class manager!!!!
Not the likes of dowie, not the likes of Reed, definitely not the likes of pardew.....
If we're going to progress we need a top manager NOW!!!! When is it going to sink in?
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