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Nobody thought Gretna FC was a big club when they made it to the Scottish Premiership and cup final.

Then their rich owner got ill and.........

Not sure about the wage part of it, but I thought "football fortune" included injections of wad from the owners? Whereas in the championship it's not that simple.

Which is why your Birminghams can lash 15m on a player in this tier, but couldn't in the tier above?

They'd have the revenue to absorb wages better than we would too.

Not even gonna mention you missed an absolutely critical "un" out of how likely you thought it'd be Morley stayed ;0

Unless we build a new stadium and find 20-30K regular fans from somewhere, I think we will always be "little Wycombe". The money just makes us "Rich little Wycombe."

For instance, I still see Bournemouth as a small club, and they have spent a lot of time in the PL and have a billionaire owner. It does not make them massive.

just write FACT at the end.

I'm definitely quite assertive with my opinions - that's just ingrained and probably won't change as that's my writing style. A lot of what I write professionally is opinion-based and I'm not in the habit of qualifying everything with 'in my opinion' because that's not how it works.

How quickly we have gone from putting out a weakened team is 'disrespectful to the competition'.... to a Cup game is unimportant now we have a chance of getting our trotters back into the Championship. 😊

Dan Rice's analytical revolution is now front and center, with a bit of pressure to prove it's worth after losing two of Scott Mitchell's success stories.

I am confident we will be an attractive landing spot. Not as upset as others, as I thought it was extremely likely Morley would go back once it became apparent how much we were outshining Bolton with him, and Caleb seemed like a toss-up, but the needle moved towards leaving once the Baggies had their injuries. Nothing unfair or "what might have been" about either scenario, as neither belonged to us. They both have basically perfect legacies with us - their darkest hour is the one EFL match we lost with them in the side!

I feel a genuine sense of excitement - we might even get better players, you know! I can imagine a Champo (or even PL) decision maker scanning the EFL horizon and seeing Wycombe as a club at the very top of the tree, overachieving but still able to give serious minutes to good loanees.

The interviews with Caleb and Blooms were filmed after the game yesterday so hopefully we have known this was coming and are already close to recruiting his replacement.

The size, playing style, reputation and funding of our club has always been directly linked in opposition manager interviews to wether or not we've won.