We Was Robbed!

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All we need to do this season then is have 10 points for a win for us only and we'll piss the legue

Sort of indirectly related-i wonder what Argyle's history and current status would have been if the play off system had been in operation from the inception of the football league? Aside from those early near misses,Argyle would have qualified for the second tier play offs on four different occasions,in 1932,1937,1953 and 1962-who knows what may have happened in a play off lottery? Just our bleddy luck.Mind you,we'd probably have funked it anyway-"they don't bleddy well wanna go up!"  

I think the relevant question now is "can anybody afford to be in the CCC?".

I read a Twitter exchange between David Conn and Matt Slater recently concerning the latest shambles engulfing Leeds United (how heartily sick of it all must their fans be?). Apparently, according to Conn, Leeds have been losing £1m per month recently. "It can't continue" was Conn's conclusion. "Why not?" said Slater. "Most of them are losing money at a similar rate. Look at Cardiff and Hull... They both lost £30m last season and they both got promoted".

The PL relegated teams are all shafted financially once the PL money is chopped (even with parachute payments). The teams promoted into the CCC can't compete financially (Bournemouth are losing millions this season) as we found to our cost.

So that's QPR, Leeds, Blackpool, Blackburn, Ipswich, Bolton, Brighton, Birmingham, Bournemouth all, to my certain knowledge, all probably unsustainably owing debts they are unlikely ever to be able to repay...

Maybe Brent is right? There's no way, financially, aiming to be a CCC club makes any sense at all. So why bother even trying?

And, please, don't have a go at me for lacking ambition or settling for mediocrity. I want us to be the best we can possibly be, and right now we are many miles off that, but the financial model that rules football, that football has chosen for itself!, is lunacy writ large. The deck is stacked in such a way that, apparently, NOBODY can make a go of it even when they are successful. It's utterly scandalous.

Can't argue with that SFD.

Brighton, despite the best attendances in the CCC, last season lost £15m.

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Yeaahh......... jack it all in on the ambition stakes. Finish the stadium as cheaply as possible and box it in. The same 5k hardcore will still turn up , cos no one else will be interested, for an Avivafest and gloat at the even smaller Devon minnows and their medieval facilities.
What fun they'll have.  

Football may be sick but people who revel in eternal mediocrity are brain dead.

I tend to agree. Sport is a contest and you have to try to win or else there's no point in it at all. Win often enough and you succeed and progress but when the "prize" for progressing is near inevitable financial meltdown what incentive is there to strive for anything beyond the mediocre?