parachute payments...............

[MattyRangers]

Exactly. World of difference. If the takeover happens and we bring in the likes of Puncheon naturally I will cheer them on like crazy, but if Saturday showed us anything (imho) it is that we are a long, long, way short of Premiership quality at the moment and we need several players who are significantly better than what we have, not more of roughly the same level (like we did in getting Gabidon). Early days obviously but even favourites such as Faurlin looked pretty average against Prem opposition on Sat. To stand a realistic chance of staying up we need a few players of the quality of Jenas (not necessarily him, but that sort of level). No one has any idea yet whether the board will back Neil sufficiently to make those kind of signings.

Bang on with every point there IMO Stainrod

[stan_bowles]

Was listening to Talksport earlier and they were discussing parachute payments.

Prem dropping into Championship ger £48m.

Championship dropping into League 1 get £70k.

And people wonder why the same teams always yoyo in the prem.