[St Charles Owl]

why dont we just give up ? isntead of keep throwing money to the wind ? or am i missing the point ? football is dogshit the lot of it shuve it up yer arse !

Your not missing the point at all.  Football for a Championship club like us gives us only two choices now - spend, spend, spend for a couple of seasons to try to reach the PL, if you do it great, if not you have to reboot and start again after a couple of seasons.  The second choice is to accept that we are a Championship club, spend far less, do not outright chase the dream of the PL but do just enough to stay in the league and occasionally make it to the playoffs, where its a crapshoot anyway!  

We chose the first option and now we are having to reboot, probably a bit harder than we had hoped to but thats where we are.  Ipswich for me are the classic case of the other choice, never spend much, sell a decent player every so often, finish mid-table most seasons but flirt with both the playoffs or relegation every few years.  Others like this are Brentford, Preston, Bristol City, the Blunts and Reading.

We as fans bought into the idea of making a push for the PL when Chansiri came in, finally we had an owner with some money and he has shown he wasn't afraid to spend it!!  It almost worked for us for the first two season but in hindsight while we nearly got the promotion we wanted, we didn't buy the right sort of player (ie one that we could sell for a profit and cut the losses quickly) to be able to get out of FFP danger when we didn't go up.  Our fans on the whole want to be back in the PL, if we want an owner that also wants that and is prepared to give the manager the funds to achieve it then we will have to accept that if we do not go up then every 3 years or so we will have to slam the brakes on, sell players and then build again, there is no other way of doing it.

Unless of course as a fan base we no longer want the PL..............