The sentiment on here is clear, none of us wants relegation. But the reality is that at every step we operate like a league 1 team. Think back to the manager recruitment in summer, it was all about taking on a young manager with potential, not an experienced championship manager. Then we end up with MA. Too early to judge Mr Rosenier, and Barnsley seem to be l doing okay, but in truth the choices weren't very inspiring.
Then player recruitment. We missed out on the "big" targets, so we move onto the younger less experienced players like Write. I don't think they were desperate signings, but rather looking to the future. Certainly not good enough to stay up though.
All in all, I think the club are prepared to go down and stick with the model of buy cheap, develope and sell on. Not saying I agree with it, and in truth we may have missed a great opportunity to establish ourselves in the championship, but that is the only logic I see for sticking with MA and not signing proven players. Of course this may all change in January