Would have delayed the inevitable by another year.
Look where our first opponents of the NL season have been during the past ten years.
So you don’t think a promotion that season would have made things worse?
Did it sound like that?
We lost some major talent that summer in Holmes and Townsend, and failed to attract another full-time in the shape of Ivan Toney.
Could we have gone into a Championship campaign with them still in the building or were they already tempted to move elsewhere?
When we survived the 2009/10 season we also lost talent to bigger clubs. Hooper to Celtic eg. They were replaced with …. Bobby Grant and Chris Dagnall!
To be a success in the Championship you need either Championship players or an exceptional manager or both. We lost both!
Was Alexander good enough to be a Championship manager? Not sure.
Was PS good enough manage the budget of a traditionally L1/2 club to keep them in the second tier? Doubtful.
I mentioned Yeovil because they hit the heights of the Championship just as we were dropping back into L2, but their plummet back down to non-league was just as spectacular (if not more so) as our own.
I think in the present ownership’s boom and bust era we’d have come back down after one season and continued pretty much as we have since!
