Everton: Sylvain Distin, Antolin Alcaraz, Luke Garbutt
Hull City: Steve Harper, Liam Rosenior, Paul McShane, Alex Bruce, Stephen Quinn, Yannick Sagbo, Maynor Figueroa, Joe Dudgeon
Leicester: Esteban Cambiasso, Matthew Upson, Paul Konchesky, Marcin Wasilewski, Dean Hammond, Conrad Logan, Zoumana Bakayogo
Liverpool: Kolo Toure, Glen Johnson, Jon Flanagan, Jerome Sinclair
Manchester City: Richard Wright, James Milner, Micah Richards, John Guidetti
Manchester United: Tom Cleverley, James Wilson, Ben Amos
Newcastle United: Jonas Guitierrez, Ryan Taylor, Sammy Ameobi, Freddie Woodman
Queen Park Rangers: Shaun Wright-Phillips, Rio Ferdinand, Joey Barton, Richard Dunne, Brian Murphy, Bobby Zamora, Karl Henry, Clint Hill, Alejandro Faurlin
Southampton: Artur Boruc
Stoke City: Jonathan Walters, Thomas Sorensen, Peter Odemwingie, Andy Wilkinson, Wilson Palacios
Sunderland: Wes Brown, Anthony Reveillere
Swansea City: Gerhard Tremmel, David Cornell
Tottenham Hotspur: Brad Friedel
West Bromwich Albion: Boaz Myhill, Chris Baird, Gareth McAuley, Youssuf Mulumbu, Claudio Yacob
West Ham: Guy Demel, Carlton Cole, Jussi Jaaskelainen, Nene
Many of the others are poor buys by premier league clubs bought on a whim for next to nothing (in premier league money) and then left to rot in the reserves or on loan: millwall, wigan, doncaster, swindon, birmingham, bolton, the list goes on... having never made it at either level.
Our best chance is a season long loan for one of the younger ones who might be up to it in the championship.
Look at QPR - they had lots of big names and their big egos took them down.
We are Rotherham United, smallest capacity in the division, smallest revenue streams, we cannot try to compete on wages, we have to get players who are championship standard to perform at their peak week in- week out. We have to get the crowd to be the 12th man. We have to have a management who have learned from their tactical inexperience at this level and make more clinical tactical decisions.
When we get a strong side physically, who have more stamina than the opposition, cheered on by a full house and organised by a tactical guru we can start talking about finishing mid-table. Until then we should expect to be in the bottom 6 for much of the season.
I did read a study of statistics which correlated football wages with league position and it was scarily accurately linked. We have to find a way to beat the probability of mathematics with some good personnel and a big dose of luck.
Oh and some better officials. That idiot who reffed the Middlesborough game at home would be selling burgers if it was up to me.