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I think it was three wins, but two of those were against ten men.

There remains a school of thought that believes had he remained at Swansea and been "backed", that he'd have ultimately been successful. Anyone still promoting that view is certifiably insane. He's gone to Southampton and played his tedious shit whilst blaming anyone and everything but himself...

"This is me not blaming the players, but this is where the players went wrong"

Yep. You need experienced pros in a side, even if your youngsters are prodigiously talented. The Man Utd team of 95/96 that Hansen got roasted over still had players like Schmeichel, Irwin, Bruce, Cantona. Cole and Giggs (who by that point was almost a veteran) playing 30+ league games.

The other risk you run with having a very young side is if you get into a run of bad results heads will drop and make things worse.

It's getting to the point where you begin to wonder whether Tan's doing it just to mess with them out of spite after all the stick he's taken. Put millions in, given them their highest two league seasons in most people's lifetimes and still loathed by the few who bother to turn up. I wouldn't...

But they're the biggest club in the divison with a squad that was only relegated because of Riza mun.

Looking at the players who left I don't think there's many that we didn't get close to their true value for. We got close to £15m for Mawson if memory serves. In any case, the club were in an absolute shit state financially that Summer. Worse than a lot of people realise. I can understand why...

I think if we'd kept Ayew in the first season after relegation instead of loaning him out we may have bounced straight back. He was far, far too good for this division, and unlike a lot of highly paid "stars", was not afraid of just getting on with it instead of stropping about being somewhere...

Yep. He was signed for Duff, started reasonably well under him and then Duff left. Williams wanted nothing to do with him (and probably wouldn't have been able to anyway) so the move went sour. Don't get why some people have to add the vitriol.

Only Birmingham bounced straight back last season and they spent a fortune in the process. The year before none of the relegated sides did. Nor the year before that. It's not likely to be the cakewalk they think that it is.

The only one of those that most people would agree are better than League One based on what we've seen of him so far is Salech. The rest have probably found their level.

I hope you're not one of those weird types who insists that only ice cream from the St. Helen's Road parlour qualifies as "the good stuff".

I mean, you could delete his name and replace it with either Luke Williams or Russell Martin in this AI explanation of his style of play...

Innit. They'd been bouncing around the arse end of the Championship for a couple of years, only avoiding relegation previously because Reading had points deducted. They had a rubbish squad and it's only got worse with no serious finances available to improve it. Plus their new Boss sounds a...

It almost became laughable the amount of times he'd make a cracking run for the ball but the pass never came for him during Williams' tenure. I think there's a player there that the right style will really get the best out of. Sheehan hasn't been all that fussed on him so this move makes sense.

I'll raise my head above the parapet here and state that I much prefer a 12:30 KO on a Saturday, especially as Winter sets in. A half twelve kick off means that the game is done and dusted by half two, which gives people a couple of hours of daylight left to do other stuff if they wish. Or...

Wasting seven months hoping that Luke Williams wouldn't turn out to be Russy Mk II was the undoing of us last season. Martin had Piroe and got nowhere. It's highly likely the same thing would have happened for Williams.

It's not just last season. For the most part only a handful strikers ever go past the 20 goal mark, and it's far from certain that the team with the most prolific striker goes up. Blackburn have been oddly successful at finding 20+ goal strikers, but it's not done them much good. One striker...

From what I can tell we played some decent stuff and created enough chances/scored enough goals to win comfortably if not for a linesman determined that Exeter wouldn't lose a testimonial.