Is Relegation The Best Result Now ?

[LS5 Blade]

I understand everyone's points about building from League 1 etc etc but look at Southampton and Charlton. You can languish down there for years...

Add into the fact that we will be at square one again in terms of having so few available players and our reluctance to try any of our young players, we will be re-visiting the early 80s again!

 

[Worksop II]

we will be re-visiting the early 80s again!

Woo Hoo - Shirts that I can tuck in, hair, and no kids, bang on, where do I sign up ?

 

[Ollessendro]

I voted Yes. To me it is largely irrelevant now, but I think we need to get worse before we get better. Have we hit rock bottom yet? Probably not. Would I prefer to rebuild in the Championship, or in League One? There are arguments for both ways, but as we are down I'll look at the positives from it:

- Rebuild: Deadwood like France, Quinn, Monty, Hendo, Cresswell, etc will be forced to move on. All the loans go back. We'll be left with a tiny squad and a perfect opporunity for Adams to rebuild. He knows the lower leagues, hence he can presumably bring in payers, and he'll be forced to use the academy.

- Potential end for McCabe and Birch. Get yer sens fooked off.

 

[cooperblade]

Relegation would be an absolute disaster for us.
We've got numerous players on contracts way above League One wages, players who may well not fancy League One but who other clubs may not fancy on the kind of wages we're paying them.
The notion that we'll suddenly rebuild looks like complete fantasy.
Staying up would have been a Godsend and presented an opportunity to stop the rot from a relative position of strength.
Financially, going down means McCabe would have to dig deep to keep the club afloat.
Given how he's treated the club in the last couple of years, United could be in danger of oblivion.

I'd agree with the general jist of that. If and when we get relegated, I'll be seriously worried about successive relegations.

 

[secretchief]

I voted Yes. To me it is largely irrelevant now, but I think we need to get worse before we get better. Have we hit rock bottom yet? Probably not. Would I prefer to rebuild in the Championship, or in League One? There are arguments for both ways, but as we are down I'll look at the positives from it:

- Rebuild: Deadwood like France, Quinn, Monty, Hendo, Cresswell, etc will be forced to move on. All the loans go back. We'll be left with a tiny squad and a perfect opporunity for Adams to rebuild. He knows the lower leagues, hence he can presumably bring in payers, and he'll be forced to use the academy.

- Potential end for McCabe and Birch. Get yer sens fooked off.

How can we force Cresswell to move on when he is on a three year contract and no-one will buy him because his legs have gone?

Who is going to come in and pay money for Montgomery and Quinn when they are on long contracts and completely useless?

We are stuck with Collins, Doyle, Ertl. That's the spine of the team!

Morgan is likely never to play again at this rate.

Evans and Henderson will be moved on because we can't afford them.

In terms of 'flair' we have Yeates, now universally hated, and Williamson who Adams decided needed a rest instead of playing in the most important match of the season!

The likes of loans which have worked (precious few): Bartley, Reid, and Riise we will never see again because we will never be able to afford Premiership wages and no-one is going to send out their players to a league one team.

We could if we wanted try to extend Jordan's contract or offer Calve or Parrino deals at the end of the season, but somehow I doubt this will happen.

Lowton is the only young player that we have that can get near the first team and as much as we all want him to make it I think there's a consensus developing that he's very limited.