Red Robin

Jeez neither let have a proven championship manager.

Billy davies

Dave Jones

SOD

I think all would do a job.

BD would kick start our season pretty quickly.

DJ would need a bit of time.

SOD would need longer.

All excellent managers though.

Just looking at the mouth watering new signings at the Valley compared to The Gate and it illustrates the huge gulf between top of the Championship [expected] and somewhere below half way [? educated guess on these differences]

In

Svetoslav Todorov Portsmouth

Nicky Weaver Manchester City

Jose Vitor Semedo Sporting Lisbon

Yassin Moutaouakil Chateauroux

Patrick McCarthy Leicester City

Chris Iwelumo Colchester United

Luke Varney Crewe Alexandra

For sure we cannot expect to compete with such a list BUT...should even the likes of me, ever Mr. Patient, be starting to worry just a little that we may only, at best, actually need to be satisfied with simply 'making up the numbers' ??

To all intense and purposes we will be playing a Premiership team when the Charlton fixtures come around so I suspect, as of today's date, we really do now need to keep our expectations firmly on the ground.. comments welcome.

Two words comes to mind MASSIVE GULF