Reality check

[Overrated, over paid 22]

So we are well and truly in the thick stuff, what a day and the bottom of the table is looking congested!

Ultimately, we were always going to be a bottom 6 club in the Premier league, if not then just a few points off bottom 6 regardless of who managed us, such is our financial weight and strength.

With that in mind we had a massive 50% chance of getting relegated before a ball was kicked! before a player signed or a manager appointed.

The reality is we are a yo-yo club. A Wolves, a Reading, a West Ham, a Hull, a QPR. We are not ''Little Old Norwich'' but we''re not an English giant and are never likely to be.

With that in mind all I ask is we do our best and play entertaining football as we did under Walker and Lambert and we give it a go! Survival for us is winning a war, not a divine right. We look to have come up short this season but at least we''ve made a positive change. Hughton is gone along with his cautious anti football. With Adams we have a small chance, unlikely but possible.

If it''s championship football the so be it. It can be as exciting and exhilarating as a season in the Premier league. Old foes to combat in Wolves, Ipswich and Leeds and we''ll no doubt win more often.

If we''re down then fine, bring on next season, we''ll be back, it is what yo-yo''s do!

Much improved today, we need to acknowledge that at least.

OTBC

[LostTheFaith 0]

Agree with the bottom six club bit. To much expectation after being spoilt for a few years. This is the realality for a club our size.

[Juggy 0]

We aren''t designed to yo-yo.Look at the players we have got, how many of those are on wages which can be sustained if our turnover falls by 60%? Clubs who yo-yo keep their team together, improve it slightly each time (West Brom did this).We have high profile players on Premier League wages. Our wage bill exceeds what our turnover will be next season.You don''t yo-yo by having to completely rebuild a team (can''t remember Leicester and Burnley in this league last season?).Fer, Van Wolfswinkel, Bassong, and others will be gone. So this is not a "yo yo" club, the new manager will need to massively restructure the team, using youth partially.I don''t expect automatic promotion if we have to rebuild the team, that is unrealistic. .

[Overrated, over paid 22]

This why parachute payments and prudent planning like relegation clauses are used as tools to allow clubs to cope with the income drop. Newcastle, WestHam and to a lesser extent QPR are examples of this.

[Two penneth 0]

Agreed, not sure the yo yo thing is quite so common these days. Lots of teams struggle upon being relegated. But hey ho, if you''d said we''d have 3 years in the prem when we first got promotion we would all have been quite happy.

[Manic Street Preacher 0]

We won''t be back.

The gap between the PL and The Championship will grow wider and we''ll be left behind.

[andyc24_uk 58]

[quote user="Juggy"]Fer, Van Wolfswinkel, Bassong, and others will be gone. [/quote]

Van Wolfswinkel and Bassong won''t be missed, frankly. Not good enough and wrong attitude. Fer will go on to do well with a top team I suspect and we will miss his talent badly.

[BroadstairsR 2,138]

We will be there or there a bouts.

1. Relegation clauses

2. Parachute money

3. £90m banked from this season leaves a decent profit after all is paid.

4. The Carra will still likely be sold out game by game.