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Top of the losses that season (£'million) Blackburn 28.6 Bolton 27.4 Cardiff 42.0 Hull 32.6 Leicester 23.2 Middlesboro 16.1 Forest 16.4 Albion 14.7

Palace have had Freedman, Olly, Pulis and now Colin in two years.

So perhaps the finger should be pointed at the players then?

1: Derby only came 10th though, so not sure what point you are trying to make. 2: Why exclude those clubs who receive parachute payments? Hull received them and were promoted, and had a wage bill of £26 million compared to our £21 million, Cardiff didn't have them but spent £32 million on wages...

What I don't understand, is if Gus was so distracted after asking to leave prior to the Palace game in March, is how we went on a ten match unbeaten run? Poyet's comments after the playoff defeat were graceless, disrespectful (to TB) and churlish, but he was on his way from the day Paul Barber...

Gus had a team featuring Casper, Painter, Dicker and Sparrow, with the likes of Vincelot on the bench.

I think you could be right!

There's a promotion clause too!

CMS £2.5million rising to £3.25million, and the extra payments have not had to be made.

Hyppia has spent £2m on Baldock, £1m on Stockdale and £500k on COG, as well as getting Bennett, Gardner and Texiera on loan. Gus signed CMS for £2.5m, £1m for Buckley and £500k on Hoskins. I don't see much difference.

There's a number of approaches to relegation. 1: Use the parachute payments to cope with the high wage bill brought down from the Premier League. (Bolton) 2: Use the payments to buy players to try to bounce straight back (QPR with Austin and Morrisson, Blackburn with Jordan Rhodes, Fulham with...

If you take a look at the research done to date, the greatest link between success in terms of results and other factors is the link to wages, the second most important factor is NET transfer spending, managers come third. If you look at QPR and Leicester last season, they had the two highest...

Never let facts get in way of a messy divorce though!

Do you have any evidence to support this or is it just bluster and opinion masquerading as fact?

It's all about opinions though. If kevtherev likes route one football so be it x

You mean clubs with Premier League players whose parachute payments give them a £20 million head start over the Albion? All of them.

Didn't Sunderland get to the cup final last season and beat Chelsea, Man U, City?

Yes it is. We had the 8th highest budget and finished 4th

Taking us to our highest place in over 30 years was overhyped was it?

Errrr......Kevin, we were playing at a makeshift stadium when Poyet took us up.