If Cardiff City are to plot their way to the top, it will have to be via methods they've not used before. Gone are the days of multi-million-pound transfers and eyewatering wages over lengthy deals. Things will be different now.
Different doesn't necessarily mean bad, of course, just ask Huddersfield Town. They are preparing for the play-offs as they bid for Premier League promotion, just a year after their manager was under huge pressure to keep his job and a number of key players were coming to the end of their contracts.
What has followed has been nothing short of remarkable for the Terriers, who appear to have gotten everything right, on and off the pitch, over the last year or so.
