Yes but I think it all ultimately flows from his attitude. It doesn;t happen immediately,

we still had a fairly swashbuckling Paul Lambert side when he took over who still had great belief and momentum from the back to back promotions and first season survival in the prem.

Brighton too seem to ride the momentum last season but I would argue have also been helped by the fact that over the last 2 seasons there have been several of the worst premier league teams I can ever remember which has made his job of keeping them up easier.

Next season looks a lot tougher to me for clubs like us and Brighton. Several of the "usual" relegation candidates have now been up there for several seasons. doesn't mean they won't go down of course but the likes of Palace, Burnley, Bournemouth, Watford etc have now consolidated and have quite a lot of good players and Wolves were never a normal promoted club.

If Villa or Leeds come up as well then its not hard to see why us and Shef u will be massive favourites for the drop. Which is not to say that I think we will go down.

Posted By: Jim, May 13, 10:19:08