I don't bother reading most of the shit you post but I'd read that one post and quoted it and even helped you by highlighting the part of the quote in blue about your claim of many top 10 finishes as the reason why I was replying and not much else about your post. I'll highlight your delusional claim again as it was
yes we "were" a top 10 side for many seasons before him. You didn't really read my post as it's far from making shit up, it's f***ing fact you weren't there for many seasons before Ashley and it was due to buying success thanks to the money in the developing league but NUFC still overspent
The last paragraph is at all mags, not just you, hence it starting with "The mags"
Aye we all know you had 7 seasons in 2 spells of being a top 10 team, (8 in 15 seasons prior to Ashley) but most know why. It was all down to Hall/Shepherd spending millions in the newly developing and money increasing Premier League/Champions League that allowed this to happen. Leeds and Blackburn for example did exactly the same thing but crashed and burned as they couldn't sustain it. You had Shearer off course and he certainly helped in the 2nd spell of being top 10 scoring 62 League goals over those 3 seasons. NUFC were probably heading the way of Leeds and Blackburn but Ashley bought NUFC without looking fully into the finances.
Even though I said it without looking into the detail, now I have, I'll explain even more as to why you were a bottom half team before the big spending in the 90's and Shearer. Your average position for the 5 seasons you were in Division 1 starting from 1984/85 before the start of the Premier League was exactly 14th, finishing top 10 once in 8th. You were in Division 2 in the 6 seasons prior to 1984/85 from 1978/79. In the rest of the 70's, the average Div 1 position was 12.875 and you finished top 10 twice, 5th and 9th. So 3 top ten positions prior to the Premier League since the 1970's.
In the 40 seasons prior to the PL, the average position is 13.33 finishing top 10 8 times out of 27 seasons or once just over every 3 seasons. Ashley's average PL positions over the 10 seasons has been 12.9 and you've been top 10 on average just over every 3 seasons. So it seems normal service has been resumed regarding average position and top 10 frequency. You've never really been a top 10 team for a long time, apart from those few seasons of 'bought' success that cannot be repeated since the league/finances/money/rules have now completely changed. Even if FFP didn't exist, to attempt to do what NUFC, Leeds, Blackburn did in the 90's now would be financial suicide given the development of the big 6 unless some billionaire was willing to risk £100's of millions to sustain being at the top. As I said, the Mags need to accept they're back where they belong before Hall/Shepherd spending and be grateful they aren't financially in the shit.
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Feel free to point out where I made up shit old fella
