Complex sentence: The following three seasons saw the club finish in the lower reaches of the Division Three table, narrowly avoiding relegation each time, but the board viewed merely surviving in Division Three as unacceptable, and replaced Conner with Walter Joyce for the 1973--74 season.
Split into simpler sentences: The following three seasons saw the club finish in the lower reaches of the Division Three table, narrowly avoiding relegation each time. The board viewed merely surviving in Division Three as unacceptable and replaced Conner with Walter Joyce for the 1973--74 season.