One major advantage that Royle had was he was always allowed to build on previous seasons work, the current manager doesnt even have the luxury from window to window, its hard to sustain any sort of promotion effort when there is very little continuity, looking at the squad Christmas photo from last season the only survivors are Philliskirk and Dayton if you can put him in that bracket, if you look at the teams up there only Bristol and Notts County have had anywhere near the same turnover of player and both clubs have spent well with significantley greater resources, for me the only chance we have of a sustained assault on the play off places is to try to keep a core of a squad together which we all know is near on impossible in our current prediciment.