| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. 16:48 - Nov 5 with 2977 views | Matt_Netherlands |
Anyone else?
Obviously I want us to play at the highest level possible, but having tasted a bit of the PL last season I really do think what people said about “the journey is better than the destination” is so very true.
Plus, if we go up we’ll need a massive squad overhaul and w know how that turned out last time…. |  | | |  |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 16:49 - Nov 5 with 2343 views | FrimleyBlue |
I would be, based on the potential of who's coming down, it COULD be a while until we get another chance again. |  |
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| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 16:54 - Nov 5 with 2313 views | Metal_Hacker |
I'd take not going up this season if it guaranteed ( yeah I know) going up the season after
For no other reason than as you mention , the upheaval that would be needed again and yep we know how that went
Have a better window this Summer and get us really ready as Leeds did last season |  |
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| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 16:58 - Nov 5 with 2292 views | NedPlimpton |
I'd be gutted
Would feel like a massive missed opportunity and I think we'd need a fairly sizeable overhaul even if we didn't go up. Cajuste, Kipre, Akpon all had clauses to buy them dependent on promotion, didn't they? Not sure about Azon. Young presumably won't do another season. Would Leif want to stick around for another year in the championship? Plus Burns, Townsend, H Clarke, Humphreys all in last year of contract and I can't imagine too many of those staying
edit - Walton and Button also in last year of contracts [Post edited 5 Nov 17:01]
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| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 16:58 - Nov 5 with 2291 views | homer_123 |
I mean, the world (what will be left of it by then) will still turn, sun will come up.
But, I'd have to say, I would.
This is in the knowledge that, like the season before last, our squad is nowhere near good enough. We need to be a yo-yo Club to give ourselves a fighting chance. So we do really need to go up. [Post edited 5 Nov 17:02]
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| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 17:00 - Nov 5 with 2276 views | mellowblue |
It would not worry me too much as I enjoy the Champ and the lack of VAR. The parachute money provides financial security for a while. But we would need to get promoted at some point in the next 2-3 years for sure.
However, I would think that boucing back at the first attempt is the best chance of getting promoted, before the team deteriorates to the standard of the other Championship clubs around them and the better players get itchy feet. So mixed feelings really. |  | | |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 17:00 - Nov 5 with 2275 views | RegencyBlue |
I take on board what you’re saying but yes, I would be disappointed.
The Championship looks to be wide open this season and with the squad we’ve assembled we won’t have a better chance of going up in my view, particularly looking at the teams likely to be relegated from the PL. |  | | |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 17:08 - Nov 5 with 2210 views | rkc123 |
I think it is difficult because I do not like what the premier league is now, I didn't enjoy last season and I don't think that was just because we didn't do as well as we had hoped, and I think the championship generally produces more entertaining games and is less predictable. However, we are run in a way that clearly demonstrates we aspire to be an established premier league club, and we are investing accordingly, so for the club I feel like we need to get promoted, and as others have said I can see next year being significantly harder to achieve that ambition than this season, so ultimately I would be disappointed if we don't manage it this season. | | | |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 17:22 - Nov 5 with 2144 views | bournemouthblue |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 16:49 - Nov 5 by FrimleyBlue |
I would be, based on the potential of who's coming down, it COULD be a while until we get another chance again. |
Luck can certainly fall on your side by dodging certain teams
Leeds clearly benefited from another year in the Championship but it's no guarantee we will get better, see Sheffield United albeit we should be more stable than them [Post edited 5 Nov 23:22]
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| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 17:23 - Nov 5 with 2143 views | Steve_M |
The thing with that is, it feels a bit 2002-03 and we know what happened after that.
I'll be disappointed if we don't go up, although your wider point that it needn't be disastrous may well also be true. |  |
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| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 17:26 - Nov 5 with 2126 views | positivity |
i see what you're saying, but wouldn't like to turn into another norwich by staying down, seeing the parachute payments go and hope gradually drifting away.
the only chance to become a competitive prem team is to get the money and use it well, even if that means being a yo-yo club for a while | |
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| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 17:30 - Nov 5 with 2111 views | ITFCSG |
You sure. For every Leeds and Sunderland there's the Sheff Utds and Lutons.
We have the most expensive squad in the entire EFL now. Non-promotion would mean a season of underachievement and failure.
Don't be too happy | | | |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 17:48 - Nov 5 with 2010 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Do you think Sunderland fans are thinking the same right now?
Do you remember 15 years of misery in this league?
Are you seeing what is happening to NCFC 4 years after they were in the PL?
Do you want a Cobbold/West Stand redevelopment for future generations?
Your ambition luckily isn't in sync with our investors! [Post edited 5 Nov 17:48]
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| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 17:49 - Nov 5 with 1996 views | positivity |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 17:30 - Nov 5 by ITFCSG |
You sure. For every Leeds and Sunderland there's the Sheff Utds and Lutons.
We have the most expensive squad in the entire EFL now. Non-promotion would mean a season of underachievement and failure.
Don't be too happy |
where are you getting that figure from? i thought most sites put leicester and soton as the top 2 on cost? | |
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| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 18:15 - Nov 5 with 1855 views | MattinLondon |
No. The recruitment last year was wrong but that shouldn’t be a reason why progression should be viewed with apprehension. If a club isn’t going forward then it’s going backwards.
I imagine if we go up this season and stay up, all this talk of the PL being a negative will be neglected. |  | | |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 18:20 - Nov 5 with 1838 views | itfcsuth |
The longer you get stuck in this division the more likely you become just one of the pack.
We would have to sell where we can if we aren’t promoted, and wouldn’t be able to spend, due to Championship financial constraints.
Would be a disaster if we weren’t in the mix at the end of the season. |  | | |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 18:33 - Nov 5 with 1782 views | Illinoisblue |
We’ve spent, what, around 20% of our professional existence in the top flight? Maybe we just don’t belong there.
*. My math may be off, maybe it’s closer to 25 or 30%? |  |
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| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 18:38 - Nov 5 with 1744 views | tetchris |
If we don’t go up this season then the pressure will be to get promoted next season as the parachute payments will then stop. How many players will need to be sold to balance the books? | | | |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 18:42 - Nov 5 with 1716 views | MattinLondon |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 18:33 - Nov 5 by Illinoisblue |
We’ve spent, what, around 20% of our professional existence in the top flight? Maybe we just don’t belong there.
*. My math may be off, maybe it’s closer to 25 or 30%? |
Brentford, Bournemouth and Brighton have probably only spent a small fraction of their existence in the top flight but the eyes are established there now.
History like that means nothing. | | | |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 18:50 - Nov 5 with 1637 views | franz_tyson |
Not that bothered about missing out on playing in the PL, but it would probably mean selling the biggest assets and having to replace the team. I like the Championship, but the "reward" for promotion is we have to leave it. And I bloody hated the experience of playing in the PL.... and the b0llocks that goes with it.
All for the Super League now where the top teams can fùck off and maybe that might make the top league a bit more competitive and enjoyable for the smaller, proper teams. | | | |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 18:55 - Nov 5 with 1610 views | ITFCSG |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 17:49 - Nov 5 by positivity |
where are you getting that figure from? i thought most sites put leicester and soton as the top 2 on cost? |
Transfermarkt
Total squad value
Ipswich 198.35 million EUR
Southampton 188.5 million EUR
Leicester 168.75 million EUR
We signed a LOT more than both Leicester and Saints both perm and loans over the summer so I am not surprised | | | |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 19:03 - Nov 5 with 1552 views | waveneyblue |
If it would mean that our "fanbase" loses the entitled and perma negative contingent, I would happy take staying in the Championship.
Sadly, I think it would just make them worse, so no we need to go up,...
(Although they would have hissy fits because we would struggle again)
Oh I just dont know.... |  | | |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 19:04 - Nov 5 with 1533 views | FrimleyBlue |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 18:55 - Nov 5 by ITFCSG |
Transfermarkt
Total squad value
Ipswich 198.35 million EUR
Southampton 188.5 million EUR
Leicester 168.75 million EUR
We signed a LOT more than both Leicester and Saints both perm and loans over the summer so I am not surprised |
Worst thing is we've spent that much and regardless of promotion or not we are probably looking at another 8 players needed for next season. | |
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| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 19:08 - Nov 5 with 1512 views | ernie |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 19:03 - Nov 5 by waveneyblue |
If it would mean that our "fanbase" loses the entitled and perma negative contingent, I would happy take staying in the Championship.
Sadly, I think it would just make them worse, so no we need to go up,...
(Although they would have hissy fits because we would struggle again)
Oh I just dont know.... |
We’d be screwed. Good thing we have super fans like you telling everyone how they should act and show their support. | | | |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 19:15 - Nov 5 with 1485 views | waveneyblue |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 19:08 - Nov 5 by ernie |
We’d be screwed. Good thing we have super fans like you telling everyone how they should act and show their support. |
Love you Ernie x | | | |
| I wouldn’t be too disappointed if we don’t go up this season. on 19:24 - Nov 5 with 1439 views | LeoMuff |
Would not be ideal, as other have said we have so many key players as loanees and the better players may be picked off by those coming down or going up.
If we owned all our players I would be far less concerned. |  |
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