I AM in total agreement with Stephen Cummings on every point he made in his weekly column last week.

It is a big disappointment to everyone that Burnley will be back in the 2nd tier next season.

As he says, we lacked the quality signing to be able to keep up, and at time didn’t have a ‘plan b’. Players who could come on and change games when we needed some quality.

We tried to contain our opponents and hoped to get a result by holding them to a draw if we were still level.

Leicester City, Sunderland and Aston Villa were all able to take the games ‘by the scruff of the neck’ and were able to ground out the results they needed to get them out of the situation they were in.

We all said at the end of the last season we would be okay as we were better equipped for the challenge ahead. We had a better manager and a better squad. With quality players added, we could do well and survive. But the quality signings never came and basically we tried to ‘take on’ the Premier League with Championship players.

We never thought big enough and that has cost us our place at the top table. Granted, we haven’t had our fair share of decisions given by the officials, but we never speculated and accumulated and thought big.

It will be a more level playing field next season against teams that will see us as the ‘big team’ and they will want to turn us over.

It won’t be easy, but if we can get some reasonable quality signings to add to the nucleus of what we have now, we hopefully can give it a good go and be in the mix.

Sean Dyche is the man for me to get us back up. He is a manager who has the credentials and know-how of how to get things right.

Whether or not he stays is another question, but if we are to bounce back at the first attempt, the board have to back him properly with decent money. Only time will tell.