Yeah, I see what you mean, but in that case we already have one large rabbit- Butterfield. Everything I've seen and heard so far suggests a great buy. As for SSS, actually there is very little evidence- many more clubs go on to have successful second seasons. It's just the high profile ones like Ipswich in 2000 are the only ones remembered. For example, both West Brom and Newcastle did alright lt year, but that never gets mentioned!
Usually in any given campaign a team will go down who have struggled all season, one will go down as a result of injuries to key players and one will go down due to turmoil surrounding the club - or a combination of those factors... and in many seasons these factors lead to one club plummeting down the table after Christmas. If we look at last season, apart from an early two wins, Wolves stayed rock bottom throughout and had inner turmoil through poor leadership with no plan in place to reverse their fortunes. Blackburn had off the field strife from very early on and this disrupted most of their season. Villa, sailing along as a top 10 club suffered a horrendous amount of injuries and plummeted down the table. Their saving grace was Bolton who had similar injuries but had less points up to the part of the season when their results were affected because of a nightmare run of big teams thanks to their fixture list which put them on the back foot and had them playing catch up there on in. In my opinion we just need to stay injury free as the club is pulling together, has great spirit amongst the squad and fans and is being run in the way we all want it to be - giving us long term sustainability. Any kind of injuries to key personel will be disastrous for a club like us as it would be for any of the other 10 teams in and around us. The only difference is that some can spend their way out of it in the January sales better than others.
Since the start of the Premier League it's been six wins to Norwich, five to Leeds and Five draws, so your record isn't that great. Most recently two draws though.
