Why on Earth would they want us to go down to a league with lower revenue, with attendances dropping, potential sponsor loss, the potential for semi-pro status and hindered ability to get to the revenues we can get to now? Yes, that would mean lower player wages, but we’d not get the other benefits and have higher running costs on things like the stadium relative to the other teams there.
But that needs them to “speculate to accumulate”, something I don’t remember this club doing, or at least, doing well.
Grabbing the first offer for a promising player?
Not stretching the budget to sign a promising player, who went on to be worth £millions?
Accepting old seats as part of a transfer deal?
Directors coming forward announcing that work done was a loan and can I have that transfer cash?
None of that fills me with the idea that we AREN’T satisfied being a big fish in a little pond.
But you happy clappers go on turning a blind eye.
In the past few days I have joked about how we have the misfortune of having 23 teams that will be ‘up there’ this season and about Butler’s pre-season strategies. I have little confidence we will make the playoffs and have concerns about a relegation battle given our lack of goalscoring and spine. That can hardly be called happy clapping.
The world is more complex than binaries where we have two tribes and you have to have the same opinion to be considered part of the right one. I just don’t think the directors would be happy with us going down a division, losing fans, losing sponsorship, losing any investment opportunity and getting sucked into possible semi-pro status. All of which would harm the club.
