Yeovil supporter in peace here.
As much as people love to hate us, we are in fact doing things the RIGHT way. We are a small club, and the way we survive for the most part is to bring on players like Stech and Madden and then, inevitably at the end of the season, a big cub comes alone and cherry picks us and we get a nice wad of cash to invest in next season. As things stand, and on current form, we are fortunate enough to have possibly the best striker and best goalkeeper in this division. We also have a couple of other players who are good enough (Joe Edwards is one) to play at the higher level. Last seasons accounts showed a profit of about £20k, peanuts in the world of football, but at least not like the Swindle Towns of this league who rake up huge debts in a gamble on promotion, and then dump them on an Administrator with a paltry ten point penalty!
Sure our ground needs a bit of improvement, with a beer tent and a roof on the away end from our non-league days, but the majority of what we have goes into the team. We have plans for a food store to inject revenue into the club, but they seem to have fallen by the wayside currently. Again though, it's the RIGHT idea, rather than borrow and bust.
Hoofers and cloggers, tin pot army, dirty...yes we have had all those accusations thrown at us by the bigger clubs we have turned over. MK Franchise, Sheffield United, and Brentford. We silenced 20,000 blades fans simply by playing good football.
Yesterday's win was down to us being pretty good defensively, and you not taking your chances, whereas Madden is on fire at the moment and scoring for fun. Set him up, and he will score. He'll be gone at the end of the season, and if he carries on like this, a Premier league side might come in for him, let alone a Championship club! result? Another wad of cash and another load more scouting to unearth another "rough diamond" that will make us a bit more money. It's clubs like ours who produce the stars for tomorrow. It wouldn't surprise me if Paddy gets an international nod soon for the Republic of Ireland.
A season with the big boys wouldn't do us any harm, we might even keep some of our "stars" another season. Put a roof on the away end, turn it into a really tight little intimidating ground, fresh crop of spuds planted on the pitch pre season then dug up....well never say never though we would be up against it. No one is under any illusions here in Yeovil.
We have got where we are because we have deserved it, and Gary Johnson loves the club and is a good manager at this level.
Good luck for the rest of the season