Wondered how you all felt about your teams chances this season? Am always interested to hear what its like following other clubs because you can get a bit bogged down following your own club all the time.
As far as my lot go, this coul dbe the year that we finally drop out of the league and potentially into financial oblivion. its a real possibility. We havent brought anybody in since last August, transfer embargo has just been lifted but no money to spend. We've lost 6 key players this summer all on free transfers, most notably Marlon King, Kieran Westwood and Aron Gunarsson. Its really annoying because if they'd have been under contract or if we were in a position to even offer new contracts there's probably £6-8m worth of talent just walked out of the door (that would keep us afloat for a year) and will be impossible to replace. We're apparently losing £500k every month now and we'll either have to be taken over within the next couple of months or placed into administration or even wound up. So all in all its probably been the most negative pre-season I can ever remember. On the plus side we have a brilliant manager in Andy Thorn who preaches pass and move football and is a breath of fresh air, we'll probably get battered most weeks but it will be good to watch after years of hoofball under Peter Reid, Micky Adams, Dowie, Coleman,Boothroyd. Also we seem to have lots of very good youth players coming through who'll all get a chance this year, watch out for Conor Thomas (on loan at Liverpool for part of last year), Gael Bigiramana and Cyrus Christie - could all net us some serious dosh over the next few seasons.
Anything other than relegation will be abig bonus and am keeping everything crossed that somebody somehwre feels sorry for us and takes us over otherwise we could be the first decent sized club in Britain to go completely under.
that said, it could be worse, I could support PNE and have division 3 football to look forward to this season.
PUSB.
