by facaldaqui »
23 Feb 2011 15:06
Wax Jacket facaldaqui floyd__streete http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/plymouth_argyle/9401625.stm
Tbh, Reading and Plymouth are probably similar sized clubs. One - for all our bitching
- has run itself pretty well in the context of avoiding something like this, the other hasn't and will be playing fourth division football next season.....at best. Cheers Mr Mad, you tight get
These clubs do make a good contrast, being a similar size. But another of the same size is Preston, and their plight bothers me. They have gone down the prudent road and all it has got them is relegation. Good management is key: the moment we get a duff manager (as we did with Bullivant), all the prudence in the world won't help us. Thank goodness we didn't sign Ferguson or Irvine, as so many on this board were urging us to do when we sacked Rodgers.
I know what you're saying but that's to look at it from almost entirely a money-based point of view. sometimes in football things can happen for footballing reasons (look at Bournemouth for instance).
Absolutely. Football is a simple game and it's about winning matches. If you can get a good team winning matches, you can buck the financial odds, as Bournemouth have done. And as Blackpool, Burnley, and us did in getting to the Prem. At the moment I'd say that Watford are succeeding because of good management and players, in the face of some terrible financial problems that led to them having to offload several of their best players last year.
In recent years we've also seen financially sound clubs go down simply because of poor management and players--for example, Norwich and Leicester.
