Looks like Hudds bubble is bursting

3-0 down at Preston. Just goes to show - anything is possible in this league.

I suppose the moneybags outfits will come out on top but the rest of us will switch places month by month.

Let's just hope we have a nice safe chair when the music stops

 

Yes, funny old league this one....
Think they'll be top half mind, but expect Norwich & Newcastle to run away with it this season.

 

Will Huddersfield be in a financial mess if they don't go up? Don't know much about them to be honest but they have made their season tickets very cheap and have a lot of premiership loanees on their books who they are probley paying a decent wedge to their parent club I'd imagine?

 

Exactly. Most teams will go through good and bad runs except a few really quality teams.

We've had a tough reality check. But we haven't been spanked once. We'll be fine. Provided we support the team and don't get on their backs.

 

I think this is true. I'm convinced there are 7 or 8 teams worse than us, and probably the same who are miles ahead of us, financially and in terms of player quality (stating the obvious I guess). We're in the middle third and I feel we will end up somewhere in that group, and it'll be as big an achievement as last seasons turnaround if we do.

 

Wouldn't think so or Dean Hoyle would be giving away teams their full allocation to bring in more funds. They spent 1.8 million on a record signing after getting in around 1.5 million for Joel Lynch so it was only a 300k outlay. The rest of the team have been undisclosed or loanees so they can't have spent much. They had a sell on from Jordan Rhodes, sell on from Oliver Norwood and a promotion bonus from Adam Clayton. A year ago they got another 1.5 for Alex Smithies and replaced him for a fraction. I think if they didn't have cheap season tickets fans would be asking where the money has gone. Now it's clear that the outlay on the 15,000 cheap tickets will have gobbled some of it up.

The Examiner is a very pro Hoyle paper. Spending 1.8 million took up almost all of the back page apart from a little article about Joel Lynch joining QPR. Granted it was the most they have ever spent but it was well budgeted for.

 

Their season tickets after the early deal are dearer than ours.... £400 cheapest Adult .