| Would you find another promotion race exciting? 15:01 - Mar 17 with 6276 views | SaffronWaldenBlues |
I will undoubtedly get a few pelters for this, but I don't know how enjoyable it will be, in the sense last season it was very much unexpected, long over due, us against the world, and who knows what's next. I don't know what could top that feeling in terms of a promotion. I don't know how excited I am going to feel about going back up next season, knowing what is coming, especially when the teams up there will be a year further ahead of us, that we will need another overhaul and even then we could still end up doing a Norwich and coming back down again.
I am sure I will get roped into it again in some way, but I can't be the only one who has had their fingers burned with this Premier League stuff. Maybe chasing an actual league title for the first time since 1992 will be what draws me in, if we are up there. As for Playoffs, I suppose we can finally play new Wembley but the stress of Playoffs is another thing altogether!
I guess had we had a little more to enjoy I may feel differently, but the idea of doing this Premier League stuff again isn't really inspiring me. Is it just me? |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 19:34 - Mar 17 with 1098 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 19:00 - Mar 17 by Illinoisblue |
I often wonder how much Crystal Palace fans enjoy their existence. Safety every year in relative comfort, never seem to go on a cup run, never threaten euro places. Just kind of hum along doing not much other than existing. I’m sure their owners love the stability of 12th/15th every season - something our gamechangers would die for - but for the fans it’s got to be a bit dull, surely. |
Living in Crystal Palace, I very rarely see anyone walking about/going on their morning run etc. in Palace colours. I often wear an Ipswich top to go jogging and when other supporters have spoken to me because of it (especially after the back-to-back promotions) it's not once been a Palace fan.
I see a few trudging along the street on a match day but that's it. Not even so much as a Palace beanie the rest of the time.
When I lived in Finsbury Park I'd see plenty of Gunners on non-matchdays (and the place was rammed with them on match days). |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 19:37 - Mar 17 with 1087 views | quirkie |
Don't like to wish away time, but only 17 months before we have another crack at the Premier League if all goes well next season, that won't take long to go.
As long as we don't do a Luton, yep I'll be quite excited for next season. |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 19:38 - Mar 17 with 1086 views | J2BLUE |
You will feel differently come August. |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 19:38 - Mar 17 with 1086 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 19:29 - Mar 17 by NthQldITFC |
No relevance to your post whatsoever, as I can't be bothered to read even purportedly reasonable negativity, but I can never remember what colour the spice saffron is; it's one of those things I'm forever getting confused about - is it yellow or is it red? Presumably the town is named after the spice in some way? |
I thought it was orange but haven't checked. Perhaps it is either red or yellow. However, you did make me look up Walden.
Walden is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau, based on his two-year experiment of living in a cabin near Walden Pond.
According to Wiki anyway. |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 19:53 - Mar 17 with 1057 views | NthQldITFC |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 19:38 - Mar 17 by Nthsuffolkblue |
I thought it was orange but haven't checked. Perhaps it is either red or yellow. However, you did make me look up Walden.
Walden is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau, based on his two-year experiment of living in a cabin near Walden Pond.
According to Wiki anyway. |
I'm pretty sure it's yellow. |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 20:03 - Mar 17 with 1035 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 19:53 - Mar 17 by NthQldITFC |
I'm pretty sure it's yellow. |
The cabin or the pond? | |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 20:08 - Mar 17 with 1021 views | Blueschev |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 19:00 - Mar 17 by Illinoisblue |
I often wonder how much Crystal Palace fans enjoy their existence. Safety every year in relative comfort, never seem to go on a cup run, never threaten euro places. Just kind of hum along doing not much other than existing. I’m sure their owners love the stability of 12th/15th every season - something our gamechangers would die for - but for the fans it’s got to be a bit dull, surely. |
We did that for years in the Championship and it was rubbish. Maybe it’d be better in the premier league, though you then have VAR, diving, plastic fans, stupid ko times, rubbish fireworks, expert simpletons who “support” the big clubs. |  | | |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 20:09 - Mar 17 with 1018 views | mikeybloo88 |
Sorry Saffren, some of your posts about realism and the EPL this season I’ve agreed with, but this is just pure tosh...of course another promotion race will be exciting, although I hope we’re well out on front by Feb 26 |  | | |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 20:26 - Mar 17 with 986 views | Swansea_Blue |
Have you been around long enough to experience any other seasons where we challenged? I’ve never know one to not be exciting. I’m sure you’ll be more than happy if we’re up the top and winning more often than not. |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 20:32 - Mar 17 with 967 views | _clive_baker_ |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 19:34 - Mar 17 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Living in Crystal Palace, I very rarely see anyone walking about/going on their morning run etc. in Palace colours. I often wear an Ipswich top to go jogging and when other supporters have spoken to me because of it (especially after the back-to-back promotions) it's not once been a Palace fan.
I see a few trudging along the street on a match day but that's it. Not even so much as a Palace beanie the rest of the time.
When I lived in Finsbury Park I'd see plenty of Gunners on non-matchdays (and the place was rammed with them on match days). |
Probably all Penge supporters round your way though innit. |  | | |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 20:37 - Mar 17 with 958 views | Bigalhunter |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 16:07 - Mar 17 by itfcsuth |
I think you will always find a promotion season exciting, but the story from L1 to PL is something that will never be replicated - so it certainly wouldn't feel as special as then.
The biggest concern would now be that there would be an expectation of automatic promotion.
What will be will be as to whether we can deliver that - as have stated, the summer build of a squad/culture capable will be critical. |
Next season, maybe it would be a hoot to do a Luton, just for sh*ts and giggles.
See if the journey back can be done properly this time.
HMS Pi*s the League, 100 pts AND 100 goals, none of this ninety odd pts nonsense and finishing behind fecking Plymouth and Leicester!
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 20:54 - Mar 17 with 940 views | LevelTheLand |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:08 - Mar 17 by SaffronWaldenBlues |
It was a fairytale, I was desperate to see it continue like many others, Chappers, Burns, Burgess, Wolfie and Hirst fighting to see us finish 17th.
Instead, I got Philogene, 18th and a record points low for Town in the top flight.
I guess that is running towards adversity as advertised. |
I rarely post on here, but this guy is awful. |  | | |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 21:21 - Mar 17 with 910 views | NthQldITFC |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 20:03 - Mar 17 by Nthsuffolkblue |
The cabin or the pond? |
I'm saying Saffron is yellow. | |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 22:12 - Mar 17 with 896 views | pointofblue |
I think it’s a legitimate talking point that, unless Town win every game 5-0 or something, next season is not going to feel as good as 23/24. Partly because of the momentum/fairytale aspect, partly due to the ignorance of what was to come. I’m not sure if anyone had appreciated how much of a closed shop the Premier League had become in the 22 years we were away.
And 23/24’s team felt like a Town team, a unit, all pullimg together. The new signings, through no fault of their own, haven’t forged that connection and it’s human nature that they will be expected to have more of an impact in the Championship than those who have gone before. If they start slowly…
It’s the hope that kills you. We’ll have a lot of hope should we go down next year, whether the expectation is fair or not. And, whether fair or not, the crowd will turn quicker if the club struggle to make a mark on the pitch.
As an aside, I can see the fixture computer putting us away at Wrexham (should we go down/they be promoted) on opening day. |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 22:23 - Mar 17 with 858 views | skinnybob72 |
Season 23/24 won't be repeated - that was a once in a lifetime season IMO.
Newly promoted after years in the doldrums, expected to challenge for the play-offs at best, we were everyone's 'other team' and we just kept going and going. The football was great too - we simply tried to outscore teams without really caring to defend. And it was an incredibly likeable team of guys as well.
Next season - assuming we are in the Champ - we will be expected to be up there challenging for automatics. We won't be anyone's 'other team' as we'll be parachute payment 'cheats' and we sure as hell won't be a surprise package.
It'll be nice to win some games - but it won't be 23/24 again. | | | |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 22:36 - Mar 17 with 834 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:14 - Mar 17 by homer_123 |
Think you need to change your outlook on following a football team. IMHO.
I get it. That feeling of unfiltered joy when we got promoted back to back was intoxicating. The problem with chasing that high is that it fades, and when it does, you’re left searching for the next one. If you measure your enjoyment of football solely by the peaks, you’ll miss out on everything in between.
Football isn’t just about the destination, it’s about the journey - every season, every match, every moment of hope or despair that shapes what comes next. Some seasons are about expectation (that could apply to next season), others about survival (sadly our race appears run this season), some about rebuilding. Each carries its own story, its own moments of joy, frustration, and surprise.
Football is like life - you take the lows with the highs because they give everything meaning. If you only care about the big moments, you’ll spend most of your time waiting rather than living.
So, maybe this next promotion won’t feel exactly like 2024. Maybe it’ll be different. But different doesn’t mean worse or you won't get swept up in it - it means another chapter, another set of memories waiting to be written.
The beauty of football is that you never really know what’s coming but if you allow yourself to feel it all, you’ll never stop loving the ride. |
Might the post of the year this.
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 22:39 - Mar 17 with 830 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
We spent the best part of 2 decades stuck in mid table, fighting for nothing, getting relegated and then fighting for nothing in the league below.
Yes another promotion battle would excite me because we were starved of it for so long. | |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 22:48 - Mar 17 with 808 views | Sarge |
Not being of an age to have experienced anything to do with success - not born in 62, 78, or 81, and far too young in 2000 - the feeling of a successful promotion winning campaign last season was indescribable.
This season I have, like many I suspect, absolutely hated it. As we’ve got steadily less and less competitive the novelty of being at the top table has worn off a bit and I’ve been shocked at just how dull PL football actually is. It’s not this festival of flair, skill and liquid football that the media tells itself it is, it’s actually a rather stale, slow affair where teams patiently wait and wait and wait to do something before exploiting an opening. It’s probably fine if you win every game, it’s extremely boring if you don’t.
As a result I’m relishing being back in the Championship where the players are a bit less pathetic, the referees less reliant on a man in a hut near Wembley to do their job for them, and the football whilst of a ‘lower quality’ being a hell of a lot more interesting to watch.
I want us to win every game, it’s a big part of why this season has been so crap and so I’ll want us to go on a relentless charge to promotion next season. Possibly it will be tempered a bit with the knowledge that we would wind up back here again, the delirium of last May is probably a once per lifetime feeling but I’d much rather enjoy the ride there than feel like this again only one division down.
It’s a bit of a poisoned chalice, promotion. Knowing that the prize is a season in the world’s most overrated league but maybe we’ll do better next time. It’s holding on to that thought which inspires hope and hope makes football fun. | | | |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 23:03 - Mar 17 with 783 views | Nutkins_Return |
3-4 games in you will be all in like everyone else. By Christmas addicted and last 10 games absolute butterflies and anxiety and the elation and ecstasy. That football. The lows are low and the highs are high.
Prepared myself for this season. Still a few results got to me but I'm the main I expected it as a likely scenario (even if I had some hope McKenna could pull of another miracle).
What gets me is not pulling off another miracle has some people calling for his head. Funny old world. | |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 06:35 - Mar 18 with 726 views | textbackup |
I’d absolutely take us being a yo-yo club for the rest of my days.
An exciting year, then a ‘oh ffs’ year, and repeat. |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 10:13 - Mar 18 with 655 views | SaffronWaldenBlues |
I don't think it is unreasonable to suggest knowing what the Premier League is like now, and having lived through an existing promotion, that next season won't have the same level of engagement for me, even if we go up.
There haven't been any credible arguments put forward as to why we'd be any better in the Premier League if we were promoted again anyway, we'd need a whole new squad again, which will surely cost in excess of another 100 million.
I am just not that excited about being hammered every week again, I just don't see how we can catch up with the established 17 now. | |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 10:16 - Mar 18 with 648 views | SE1blue |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 22:12 - Mar 17 by pointofblue |
I think it’s a legitimate talking point that, unless Town win every game 5-0 or something, next season is not going to feel as good as 23/24. Partly because of the momentum/fairytale aspect, partly due to the ignorance of what was to come. I’m not sure if anyone had appreciated how much of a closed shop the Premier League had become in the 22 years we were away.
And 23/24’s team felt like a Town team, a unit, all pullimg together. The new signings, through no fault of their own, haven’t forged that connection and it’s human nature that they will be expected to have more of an impact in the Championship than those who have gone before. If they start slowly…
It’s the hope that kills you. We’ll have a lot of hope should we go down next year, whether the expectation is fair or not. And, whether fair or not, the crowd will turn quicker if the club struggle to make a mark on the pitch.
As an aside, I can see the fixture computer putting us away at Wrexham (should we go down/they be promoted) on opening day. |
To your last paragraph, I reckon they’ll plump for Wrexham V Leicester on a Friday or Monday night on the first weekend.
Wrexham against the ‘recent’ PL winners will show how far the welsh club have come. |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 10:32 - Mar 18 with 631 views | farkenhell |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 19:34 - Mar 17 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Living in Crystal Palace, I very rarely see anyone walking about/going on their morning run etc. in Palace colours. I often wear an Ipswich top to go jogging and when other supporters have spoken to me because of it (especially after the back-to-back promotions) it's not once been a Palace fan.
I see a few trudging along the street on a match day but that's it. Not even so much as a Palace beanie the rest of the time.
When I lived in Finsbury Park I'd see plenty of Gunners on non-matchdays (and the place was rammed with them on match days). |
They all live in Croydon don't they? Poor sods. | | | |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 13:25 - Mar 18 with 595 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 10:13 - Mar 18 by SaffronWaldenBlues |
I don't think it is unreasonable to suggest knowing what the Premier League is like now, and having lived through an existing promotion, that next season won't have the same level of engagement for me, even if we go up.
There haven't been any credible arguments put forward as to why we'd be any better in the Premier League if we were promoted again anyway, we'd need a whole new squad again, which will surely cost in excess of another 100 million.
I am just not that excited about being hammered every week again, I just don't see how we can catch up with the established 17 now. |
Yeah we get it Captain Misery. | |
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