Admittedly, I'm really mainly posting this as I quite like the headline. 

But it does really make you think, doesn't it? From Millers 05 (with good intentions but nowhere near enough finance to run a professional football club inherited from the late Mr Booth, that love him or loathe him, continued to write-off losses during the bad times) to a friendly game against respected Bundesliga opponents.

When Stewart took over and subsequently moved us out of Millmoor, if you'd have said to me when we were at the Don Valley, on minus seventeen points playing in front of an average of about 3,500 spectators that we'd have been where we are now, I'd have scoffed, and I'm usually fairly optimistic.

Despite Stewart's famous wallplan timetable of where we wanted to be, and talk of the Championship in three years, did anyone genuinely believe it would be so? That we'd be in the Championship, crowds over 10,000 most weeks, talks of imminent ground expansion, the players we have, the players we are being linked with etc.

And with all that, we're still hot favourites to be relegated from the division. A fine indictment of just what level of football we are competing at.

So what next? Well, obviously survival is, as Evans put it recently on Sky Sports, the "mimimum goal" but again if we achieve it in 2015-16 in a league that most consider a lot harder than last season, it must be considered another success. We're getting a bit used to success at the moment, aren't we? As Millers I assume we're all awaiting the perennial kick in the balls.

I believe if we could establish ourselves over the next two seasons, extend the ground and manage to attract another few thousand on the gate (even if it's partly done by giving away followings a bigger section of the ground) then we'll be on a fairly even footing with the lower budget teams in this division. As it stands, we're fighting an unfair fight, but fighting it well.

As an aside, I'm going to make more of an effort to post more regularly on here and would implore many like-minded users to do the same. Nothing against the MAD mods, but it's barely usable now given the daft ads and pop-ups, plus it's riddled with unwarranted egos and multi-users, with very little discussion about the football.

If we could get this site to be a hub for football chat (and it will naturally increase in traffic once the season begins) that would be brilliant. Like the old Rivals site, or MAD in its prime.

But bloody hell, Ex, change the background. It's a great shot, but when is the NYS ever that empty? Let's have one o