Thought this was interesting - Average league position over the last 50 years

[JF 694]

Don’t forget his generosity in supplying that 1000 decibels half time speaker to entertain (drown out/deafen) the crowd! Better than that crap hotel that Delia had built there!

[king canary 7,606]

Purple is of course correct- it is extremely difficult to compare football from even 10 years ago let again 40/50.

Although does rather undermine the argument some like to make that our current ownership can get us promoted because they''ve done it before.

[Iwans Big Toe 312]

[quote user="nutty nigel"]Big fat Bob easily comes out on top for spending our club''s money on Police horses to keep the canary faithful away from their own club''s doors.

Were any of our local Old Bill jockeys?[/quote]

Now we''ve moved on to the subject of spending money.

The Builder - £850,000 on Mark Robins

The Cook and the Printer - £8,500,000 on Ricky van Wolfswinkel

No spin, just facts. :)

[PurpleCanary 5,562]

[quote user="king canary"]Purple is of course correct- it is extremely difficult to compare football from even 10 years ago let again 40/50.

Although does rather undermine the argument some like to make that our current ownership can get us promoted because they''ve done it before.[/quote]

I think that argument is more complicated than just being about financial eras. It also involves key decisions such as to who the manager/head coach is. It also in effect requires us to now be in a different financial era for the argument to be potentially flawed in that way, and we got promoted only four seasons ago.However, as said before, even if we are not yet in a radically different financial era in the Championship, it is certainly true that the influx of (often overseas) corporate money into the division is a trend that that is already making it harder for a self-sustaining club to compete, and if the trend carries on it will get tougher still.

[king canary 7,606]

I think we''re already in a very different era financially.

Ten years ago you wouldn''t see championship teams paying £5m+ for players yet it happens pretty regularly now.

[corbs 147]

Confirms what we already know, we have over achieved and same 6 or 7 clubs always at the top with the odd blip (us in 93 and LCFC recently). Time for some mid table 2nd tier, get with the programme, dudes.

[Badger 2,405]

[quote user="corbs"]Confirms what we already know, we have over achieved and same 6 or 7 clubs always at the top with the odd blip (us in 93 and LCFC recently). Time for some mid table 2nd tier, get with the programme, dudes.[/quote]I don''t think that it suggests that we have "over-achieved," rather that we are one of the archetypal "yo-yo" clubs. In some ways this is better than the perpetual struggle to try to avoid relegation which most clubs outside the top 7 or 8 face, to a greater or lesser degree.