| Things you won't miss about the Premier League 15:00 - Apr 2 with 3459 views | Dubtractor |
On the basis that we're all accepting of our fate now, let's celebrate the loss of things we won't miss.
VAR
The Premier league anthem
Day tripper fans who moan all game then leave on 80 minutes
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| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 18:17 - Apr 2 with 831 views | Garv |
Fans not being able to cope with losing more than winning and constantly trotting out lines like "the Championship is just better isn't it?" |  |
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| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 18:18 - Apr 2 with 823 views | TheBoyBlue |
Games being over as soon as we go behind. |  |
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| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 18:30 - Apr 2 with 786 views | ellaandred |
| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 16:47 - Apr 2 by RadioOrwell |
Bad VAR … when you thought it was supposed to stop all that.
“Gamesmanship” - formerly known as shthousing.
And we thought old fashioned time wasting in Div1 / Champ was terrible. |
Is that the same as game management? |  | | |
| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 18:37 - Apr 2 with 772 views | J2BLUE |
Paul Merson hilariously saying game over every time one of the bottom three go behind.
VAR
The lack of games.
The hype.
The gobsh1e pundits
The big clubs constantly whinging about too many games while they have squads of 30+, push for more and more changes to the domestic calendar and then book extra friendlies abroad.
The Prem is a polished turd. It's repellent but also crucial for our long term ambitions.
I will miss Town being at the top table but at the same time it feels like coming back home into the Championship. Hopefully we can go up and try again. Maybe the likes of Garv are right and it is all about results but I think he's missing the point and there's just something off about the Prem. Many of us posted as much well before Christmas. |  |
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| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 18:48 - Apr 2 with 754 views | VanDusen |
| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 18:17 - Apr 2 by Garv |
Fans not being able to cope with losing more than winning and constantly trotting out lines like "the Championship is just better isn't it?" |
I don't mind losing (I support Ipswich for goodness sake!). However, I mind losing when it's not a fair fight and the rules have been gerrymandered to suit a handful of brands to sell products off.
What English football had was the unique ability for a club the size of ours to win the whole thing less than 25 years after entering the league (with 6 years suspended due to the war!), with nothing other than good management and organisation.
Over sixty years this has been steadily eroded largely by 3 clubs to a bottom line dictating all. And when Chelsea and Man City realised what they were doing and spent the money to overhaul them they change the rules again to prevent anyone else challenging them. It's just bent. | | | |
| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 18:53 - Apr 2 with 739 views | MK1 |
An end to all the whingers on here. |  |
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| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 19:36 - Apr 2 with 697 views | wkj |
This comment is related to the OP's point but not in the format.
I am fortunate enough to have experienced Town's last two premiership stays and the difference between both is night and day. Now, I have considered that our first season in Burley's tenure was incredible and could maybe bias this account, but then I consider the next season and ease away from the bias.
It has felt bad this season. Performance is a part of that undoubtedly, especially when we spent as much as we did to not really impact our chances.
Is McKenna and Ashton to blame for that?
Have we mismanaged assets?
Possibly, to an extent
Has McKenna met his match?
I don't think so
I just think the feeling in the league is way different. I also blame saturation. We now live in a time where we don't have to have visited a ground to be intimately aware of it. In the 90's the internet was far from the norm and the papers, MOTD and word of mouth were your key communication as to how special this new place we could visit was. Going to another ground was exciting and sometimes overwhelming as those accounts of the place started to become a reality. Now, with content saturation you end up probably thinking either "This is cool" or "I don't see the fuss".
The league is incredibly lopsided. Yes, you had your elite clubs in the day as well - but no game felt patently unwinnable. That is to say a big club having a bad game usually meant a smaller club having a good game could overcome them. Now it almost feels like a big club having a bad game means you're going to lose, but maybe not by such a country mile.
I think this is my biggest comparison - nothing felt impossible when the club was running well. I would say that McKenna has the club running well, albeit some questions are raised around game management. It seems like those powers that be have the club running well too. Certainly more so when it felt like Sheepshanks was being stringy in the Championship and then blew his proverbial load when in the premier league (and we all know where that lead).
In short though, I really haven't been invested in the PL this season. Even day one felt a bit flat compared to the first day of a season freshly promoted into the Championship about a year prior.
I can't quite put my finger on any reason in particular, but a combination of things discussed in this thread certainly make sense. |  |
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| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 20:19 - Apr 2 with 661 views | tcblue |
I won't miss anything about it TBH.
I hoped to miss it, honestly - even with us going down, I hoped to be able to point at the fact the skill levels were so much higher, but it was good watching.
Can't say any of that - with only really two exceptions, the PL is just a physical league of fitness and concentration levels nowadays, not about ball skills and excitement. | | | |
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| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 01:36 - Apr 3 with 592 views | wkj |
| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 20:19 - Apr 2 by tcblue |
I won't miss anything about it TBH.
I hoped to miss it, honestly - even with us going down, I hoped to be able to point at the fact the skill levels were so much higher, but it was good watching.
Can't say any of that - with only really two exceptions, the PL is just a physical league of fitness and concentration levels nowadays, not about ball skills and excitement. |
Much more succinct than i put it. Kinda catch 22. The journey is much more exciting than the destination. | |
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| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 07:05 - Apr 3 with 514 views | Simonds92 |
| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 15:05 - Apr 2 by hoppy |
Can we also do away with the firework things as we come out onto the pitch, please? |
I think they're OK in moderation, just not every week. First game, last games, top of the table clash to win the league in March. | | | |
| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 07:38 - Apr 3 with 483 views | Churchman |
I don’t disagree with any of what’s been posted. I suppose the thing I won’t miss the most is the sheer uncompetitiveness of the division.
A lot of the games were forgone conclusions and so one sided it felt like an exercise in misery. While it’s been interesting to see the difference in the PL now to 25 years ago, Lyall’s time or even Bobby Robson’s, I don’t like what I see.
Cucurella. He tried to get Hutchinson sent off. Had I been a player, I’d have ripped a handful of that greasy hair out of his head accidentally in injury time. He typifies Premier League entitlement and ‘professionalism’ as terminal bores like Shearer, Lineker and that self satisfied, smug, teeth whistling, bonehead Murphy like to call it. |  | | |
| Things you won't miss about the Premier League on 09:49 - Apr 3 with 388 views | BlueBlood90 |
Going four months without a win would be up there on the list! |  |
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