You make it sound like the boxing matches in the film 'Snatch' when Mickey is told to go down in the fourth!

Mellon's personal situations are just that. They shouldn't carry over to the club. He has personal situations with players and they become very public.

I also know because Frank himself told me, he was happy not to go down this year and push on next. He didn't spend alot because we had a month less to put our team together due to not knowing what division we would be in until June the first. So as Frank said to me. He considers our squad as nothing more than a NL squad.

As I have posted before, Boulogne were promoted one day prior to this season starting. Their objective is staying up. But they lost players when the didn't get automatic promotion and were beaten in the play offs. They are in L2 with potentially a weaker team than last seasons tier 3 team. 12th, but not safe. But, they haven't spent the season defending, they have gone hunting wins. Trying to get points not aiming to protect a single point by playing not to lose. We know now we had that capability to win games, but Mellon chose not losing.