This has all just made everything all seem even more glum than before.
There's not a lot new, but it's the confirmation of what we have feared.
This is a slippery slope to hell.
If we have a mid to lower mid budget, then I can't see how a new manager is going to suddenly have us tearing up the table, unless he is absolutely brilliant.
If he's absolutely brilliant, what's he doing here.
This is a perpetual decline and Fisher must know that season ticket sales will be down next season unless we finish on a real high.
Smaller budget, another lower table battle. The next season, smaller budget, likely relegation. Smaller budget, same ad nauseum.
Meanwhile the City fan base just goes up in a puff of smoke.
The only thing that is going to put bums on seats is a successful team out there on the pitch.
We have one single hope this season, the tinpot cup. Only a trip to Wembley and victory will give us any impetus and hope.
I always have a season ticket, but have to say, even I am having second thoughts at the moment.
We are set up to decline. Constantly cutting budgets will set us on a path to oblivion eventually.
City fans are now so fed up on failure, after failure, after failure, that only a successful team on the pitch will bring them back.
If we are starting off from a position of lower midtable budget then we are accepting mediocrity and our chances of success are incredibly limited.
I know it's a chicken and egg situation, but the difference is, there have been so many endless years of failure you will ONLY get fans back if you start doing really well.
You are now never going to get people to buy ST's and tickets in advance in the hope that , that then transfers into a bigger player budget out on the field of play.
Fans have now had enough and it is all at a very low ebb.
Only answer is investment or takeover, or just self combust and disappear into the ether.
A new man will come in, in January and have the same constraints. Yep, we get a honeymoon period and may end up midtable.
Trouble then is though, next season we will start once more with a lower midtable budget, which then again points to a challenge at the wrong end of the table.
I know you can have a smaller squad, but that hasn't served us at all well in the past.
It's all very depressing.