After watching the season highlights again of our first season in the prem under Robbo and then the subsequent relegation the following season I've always wondered if we had gone the other way what would have happened. Our squad depth was woeful back then, Robbo himself even playing at 40, the likes of Barron, Freestone, Whelan etc playing numerous games despite being nowhere near top level players.
I wonder if we had spent 11M on say 5 or 6 grizzled top flight type pros or inexpensive foreign imports rather than Rav & Emmo whether we would have stayed up and then could add the panache the following seasons and build from there?