For a while during the dark days of Sixfields I thought there was a real possibility the fans might abandon the club en masse to such a degree that a rival AFC Wimbledon-style club might make sense. Thankfully that never happened, but it made me realise: the thing that really matters to me is there being a club in Coventry playing in sky blue, that they be financially sustainable, with good investment in youth talent and (ideally) playing decent football. Assuming all of these, the league this team plays in wouldn’t matter so much. So long as SISU are in the picture I fear that these things are always in jeopardy, even if we were promoted as far as the Premier League, but with luck they will learn enough about longterm ownership of a football club that they see the value in these things.
Teams like Bournemouth going all the way up, and Villa coming down shows that the rules aren’t fixed and nobody has a right to be anywhere. I’d say we’re a big enough team (historically) to at least justify being in the Championship, but we have to earn that right again.