'of course we never planned to be in the championship but by lots of luck there we were…'

Exactly ian, therein lay the rub.

Promotion into the Championship was not planned, but once there we're in it, up to our necks. In terms of players, we discover we can't afford the "quality over quantity" ….(Oh how that phrase has come to haunt us) , we can't even retain the services of young loan players; we can't afford the managers: we can't afford to upgrade the training facilities that are appropriate to a Championship club. The cost must be phenomenal to a club like ours. We all knew it from the start, and knew it was going to be tough, but being Rotherham we thought we would be making a fight of it, particularly after the fighting talk of the chairman If we were to go down, we would go down with heads held high. We all rallied to the call.

Non of of it, the record book speaks for itself. No General, no troops, no fight. Little more than a whimper.

So its not the relegation that is the problem for most. Its the record braking, humiliating manner in which it has been done, not withstanding the pre season rhetoric most of us swallowed after the 'Great escape' of last year. It feels more like a complete betrayal of trust.