In his interview announcing the new 5-year plan, as I recall it, SH said “it wouldn’t be the end of the world if we got relegated” ; he did add that the club didn’t intend for this to happen.Simon Hallett said during an interview earlier in the season that becoming a yo-yo club wouldn’t be such a bad thing.
I’m not suggesting that he doesn’t value Championship football, it just may be less important to us than to more established Championship clubs, they’ve got significantly bigger wage bills than us and they’d feel the effects of relegation more than we would.
I’m coming round more and more to the POV that relegation wouldn’t be a disaster in and of itself, we do have the smallest budget in the division after all, my concern is the toxicity that would come with that.
His words surprised me at the time, and keep coming back to me now.
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