| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... 07:24 - Mar 10 with 5846 views | Pippin1970 |
With points gained between the three clubs this season. Well short of any other season. Premiership is bloody hard nowadays too. |  | | |  |
| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 13:05 - Mar 10 with 632 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 12:11 - Mar 10 by VanDusen |
As someone who watched us (and Leicester) in 1994/5 there is no way these are the worst three teams in Premier League history... |
This is a very reasonable comment.
I guess the point is more to do with 'relative to the rest of the division'. Back in 94/95 there were far more clubs 'in the mix', and points more easily taken off mediocre teams - even by the poor teams heading for relegation. | | | |
| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 13:09 - Mar 10 with 610 views | Vic |
| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 07:51 - Mar 10 by bsw72 |
That’s not what the article says, it makes a valid point about how difficult it is becoming for promoted sides in the PL. |
That may be so, but that doesn't make the bottom three the worse in Prem history - which is what the headline suggested. |  |
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| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 13:12 - Mar 10 with 606 views | monty_radio |
| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 13:09 - Mar 10 by Vic |
That may be so, but that doesn't make the bottom three the worse in Prem history - which is what the headline suggested. |
True - but commencing their headline with "taken collectively" would instantly reduce the clicks. | |
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| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 13:48 - Mar 10 with 575 views | wischip |
If the 3 clubs going up go straight down again becomes the pattern every year then it clearly shows the gap is insurmountable. The top 17 are just going to get further and further away.
Perhaps to shorten the gap again and make English leagues more interesting for all, the 3 promoted teams get a stay of execution for 1 season in the Premiership for adjustment. So it's the lowest 3 teams that are not in their 1st promotion-achieving season that go down. So this season at the moment that would be Wolves, West Ham & Everton. I know it'll never happen but still more excitement. |  | | |
| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 14:26 - Mar 10 with 526 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 13:48 - Mar 10 by wischip |
If the 3 clubs going up go straight down again becomes the pattern every year then it clearly shows the gap is insurmountable. The top 17 are just going to get further and further away.
Perhaps to shorten the gap again and make English leagues more interesting for all, the 3 promoted teams get a stay of execution for 1 season in the Premiership for adjustment. So it's the lowest 3 teams that are not in their 1st promotion-achieving season that go down. So this season at the moment that would be Wolves, West Ham & Everton. I know it'll never happen but still more excitement. |
I get the sentiment, I really do, but ...
Teams should surely be promoted and relegated on merit, not through a mechanism designed to give some clubs an advantage (in this particular scenario, effectively a season long free pass). And when would you revert to the current model, and what stops the disparity building once again.
The fundamental mismatch in current funding needs rebalancing to address the issue - and I feel that there is too much self-interest at play for that to happen. | | | |
| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 14:46 - Mar 10 with 506 views | EuanTown |
Tbh cannot see Leeds, or possibly Burnley or Sheffield United fairing any better next year. The league will only get more difficult to stay up in for promoted sides. The best we can hope for is a euro league with big clubs leaving the prem and making a prem without them which becomes more of a level playing field |  | | |
| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 15:28 - Mar 10 with 478 views | Bad_Boy_Mark |
| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 08:22 - Mar 10 by Herbivore |
But without any context or nuance it's a bit of a pointless point to make. Why do the three current sides have the worst collective points total in history? Is it because we're three worse sides than any other bottom three in history or is it that the gap between the Championship and the Prem is getting bigger? Last season, the bottom three were chasing down a Forest side that finished with 32 points. Forest have done some more savvy business and are third this season. Bournemouth, Brighton, Fulham, and Palace have all strengthened, even Everton have. Wolves are our target and they're able to field three Brazil internationals and a smattering of Portuguese internationals. How are we meant to compete with that off the back of one transfer window having not been in the Prem for two decades? |
Great post and it is easy for those on the outside to lose sight of the points you made so well 👏🏾 |  | | |
| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 15:31 - Mar 10 with 473 views | Vic |
| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 13:48 - Mar 10 by wischip |
If the 3 clubs going up go straight down again becomes the pattern every year then it clearly shows the gap is insurmountable. The top 17 are just going to get further and further away.
Perhaps to shorten the gap again and make English leagues more interesting for all, the 3 promoted teams get a stay of execution for 1 season in the Premiership for adjustment. So it's the lowest 3 teams that are not in their 1st promotion-achieving season that go down. So this season at the moment that would be Wolves, West Ham & Everton. I know it'll never happen but still more excitement. |
I disagree. IF we go down and IF we get promoted again next season our squad should be better overall - which should give us a better chance of survival.
We often say that Soton and Leicester have better squads than us because they were in the prem more recently than us. That may be, but Soton weren't great last season and Leicester are a club in decline. Both have major off field issues by all accounts.
So a club with a couple of seasons yoyoing should incrementally get better and therefore stand a better chance of staying up. Especially given that as Leicester and Soton prove even prem clubs, with all their money are not immune from decline. | |
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| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 11:30 - Mar 11 with 307 views | Blue_In_Boston |
It is a fact. League tables have been measured in points since the founding of the Football League.
Obviously there are caveats but at the end of the season that table will be there for ever more. | | | |
| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 17:13 - Mar 11 with 235 views | Blue_Heath |
| BBC saying the worse three clubs in Premiership history.... on 13:05 - Mar 10 by SuffolkPunchFC |
This is a very reasonable comment.
I guess the point is more to do with 'relative to the rest of the division'. Back in 94/95 there were far more clubs 'in the mix', and points more easily taken off mediocre teams - even by the poor teams heading for relegation. |
We won more games in 94/5. | | | |
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