If Eric threw money at JC and bought promotion next season, we might get - what - say 3000 tops as home support once the town realised we were winning? And if he didn't then throw even more money at him the following season, we'd have a losing start in Div 3 (just can't call it League 1, sorry) and the gates would drop back to not much more than we get now.
KP is right. Normal people are fickle about football. Mad people support losing teams, weep and spend time on this website!
