| Play off final. 22:54 - Jan 25 with 3503 views | suffolkpoker |
If we came 3rd and get to the play off final and loose. How would you rate our sesson?
I personally don’t think anything but promotion is a failure.
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| Play off final. on 22:59 - Jan 25 with 2481 views | J2BLUE |
It would be failure unfortunately.
I think McKenna gets us top 2. |  |
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| Play off final. on 23:18 - Jan 25 with 2389 views | ParisBlue |
Anything other than promotion would be a failure imo. Promotion via play-offs would be under-par.
Top 2 was the expectation.
(I say that from my perspective as at the beginning of the season) |  |
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| Play off final. on 23:34 - Jan 25 with 2319 views | suffolkpoker |
| Play off final. on 23:18 - Jan 25 by ParisBlue |
Anything other than promotion would be a failure imo. Promotion via play-offs would be under-par.
Top 2 was the expectation.
(I say that from my perspective as at the beginning of the season) |
I upped voted by mistake… promotion by play offs is under par??? 🤣
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| Play off final. on 23:36 - Jan 25 with 2321 views | MattinLondon |
Automatic promotion, given the money spent on the team, is the expectation.
Promotion via the playoffs is acceptable but concerning.
Playoff failure should result in dismissal later on the same day. |  | | |
| Play off final. on 23:43 - Jan 25 with 2294 views | itfcsuth |
Anything but promotion would have to be seen as a failure, and rightfully so in my opinion.
We are still in the reaches on top 2, still in our own hands, we are in a good spot, without really playing particularly well all season until the past 4 weeks or so, backwards step on Saturday.
A long way to go still in this season, there’s a long way to go with Town 2.0 actually, but we have made developments throughout this season, and I think we are moving in the right direction, probably slower than we’d like - but when you step back and snapshot it, we could be in a far worse position. |  | | |
| Play off final. on 23:46 - Jan 25 with 2279 views | Illinoisblue |
| Play off final. on 23:36 - Jan 25 by MattinLondon |
Automatic promotion, given the money spent on the team, is the expectation.
Promotion via the playoffs is acceptable but concerning.
Playoff failure should result in dismissal later on the same day. |
Going up via the playoffs would be “concerning”? Jesus wept, I can’t believe I just read that. Unreal. |  |
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| Play off final. on 23:51 - Jan 25 with 2252 views | bournemouthblue |
Disappointing but not a total disaster, a few would leave but we have the core of a good side for the following season and we would reinvest those transfer fees |  |
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| Play off final. on 00:02 - Jan 26 with 2226 views | armchaircritic59 |
Massive failure if we fail to get promoted. Disappointing if only the play offs, but hey, everyone would take it, only if we win them. |  | | |
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| Play off final. on 00:04 - Jan 26 with 2220 views | bournemouthblue |
| Play off final. on 00:02 - Jan 26 by armchaircritic59 |
Massive failure if we fail to get promoted. Disappointing if only the play offs, but hey, everyone would take it, only if we win them. |
The playoffs are the best way to go up and the worst way to miss out
Obviously we have a horrifyingly bad record in them! | |
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| Play off final. on 00:21 - Jan 26 with 2190 views | jasondozzell |
| Play off final. on 23:36 - Jan 25 by MattinLondon |
Automatic promotion, given the money spent on the team, is the expectation.
Promotion via the playoffs is acceptable but concerning.
Playoff failure should result in dismissal later on the same day. |
'Promotion via the play offs is acceptable but concerning '
Put that on a t shirt!
I honestly give up. |  | | |
| Play off final. on 06:16 - Jan 26 with 1991 views | franz_tyson |
| Play off final. on 23:51 - Jan 25 by bournemouthblue |
Disappointing but not a total disaster, a few would leave but we have the core of a good side for the following season and we would reinvest those transfer fees |
I'm more worried about the upheaval of players/Kieran leaving rather than missing out on promotion. I really want us to be successful ie Top two.... but i bloody hate the Premier League. Bridge I'll have to cross if we get there.
Journey is , for me, far better than the destination.
Play Off final wouldn't be a disaster and would be an exciting ride.... win or lose. | | | |
| Play off final. on 06:18 - Jan 26 with 1982 views | Len_Brennan |
Not just a failure, but arguably a disaster given the fact that Leicester, Southampton & Sheffield United have all squandered their seasons & parachute money, plus Birmingham's relatively underwhelming challenge.
Next season most of them will be much better, but Wolves, Burnley & one of West Ham, Leeds or Nottm Forest will come down, while Wrexham will probably still be there splashing the cash again.
Going up this season, along with 2 of Coventry, Middlesbrough, Hull or Millwall, as opposed to 2 of that lot next season, would also give us a far better chance of staying up & establishing ourselves as a Premier League club. | |
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| Play off final. on 06:35 - Jan 26 with 1944 views | Blue_Heath |
As many have said not going up is failure. Depends on manner of defeat but in some ways would be better if we narrowly miss out this year and then take the league by storm the following year and use the momentum to stay in the prem. That said if we don't go up the following year we'd be in trouble financially.
Bottom line is we really need to go up this year but we'd like come back straight back down again. | |
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| Play off final. on 07:21 - Jan 26 with 1805 views | chicoazul |
Opie I’m very confused and I can’t be the only one. |  |
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| Play off final. on 07:27 - Jan 26 with 1787 views | ITFC_Forever |
Frustrating.
But we’ll still have last summer’s parachute money and this summer’s parachute money to spend
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(As a reminder, the only money we spent last summer was what we generated anyway from selling Omari, Delap and Broadbean). |  |
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| Play off final. on 07:41 - Jan 26 with 1745 views | SuffolkSpezial |
Not getting promoted would indeed be a failure, but not worthy of a change of manager. If we were without a manager at the end of the season and McKenna was out of work, he would top our list of candidates.
If we were languishing mid table, I believe that would constitute considering change of manager.
I hate the hire and fire mentality based on half a dozen good or bad results | | | |
| Play off final. on 08:09 - Jan 26 with 1599 views | Wickets |
Reading through,blimey we are setting the bar high these days ! |  | | |
| Play off final. on 08:18 - Jan 26 with 1548 views | peterleeblue |
| Play off final. on 07:41 - Jan 26 by SuffolkSpezial |
Not getting promoted would indeed be a failure, but not worthy of a change of manager. If we were without a manager at the end of the season and McKenna was out of work, he would top our list of candidates.
If we were languishing mid table, I believe that would constitute considering change of manager.
I hate the hire and fire mentality based on half a dozen good or bad results |
Probably an unpopular opinion but I am 100%with you. |  | | |
| Play off final. on 08:28 - Jan 26 with 1515 views | boysof1981 |
| Play off final. on 06:18 - Jan 26 by Len_Brennan |
Not just a failure, but arguably a disaster given the fact that Leicester, Southampton & Sheffield United have all squandered their seasons & parachute money, plus Birmingham's relatively underwhelming challenge.
Next season most of them will be much better, but Wolves, Burnley & one of West Ham, Leeds or Nottm Forest will come down, while Wrexham will probably still be there splashing the cash again.
Going up this season, along with 2 of Coventry, Middlesbrough, Hull or Millwall, as opposed to 2 of that lot next season, would also give us a far better chance of staying up & establishing ourselves as a Premier League club. |
Agree it gives us a much better chance of staying up IF we go up, however I think this team we currently have would perform worse than last seasons, and that would mean yet another mass recruitment, plus we’d have to buy Akpom & Cajuste, both of whom have been underwhelming.
To go up though, we need two key players in before the end of the window, a 9 ready to go from the off and Dan Neil would be great additions. | | | |
| Play off final. on 08:31 - Jan 26 with 1508 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
Depends on the context. If we finish like 20 points behind 2nd and then lose 5-0 id be angry. If we miss out by a point or so and lose on pens that would be very different. |  |
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| Play off final. on 08:39 - Jan 26 with 1484 views | Scuzzer |
For me...wouldn't matter at all.
Been supporting the club since 1968 and have seen it all...just another season and whatever will be will be. Enjoy the ride. |  |
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| Play off final. on 09:04 - Jan 26 with 1405 views | Edmundo |
Just enjoy every game and be thankful for a great era for Town so far: definitely good times we are in, don't expect them to last forever, they never do.
I wish everything would go right and we finish top and win the FA Cup, but I expect nothing. |  |
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| Play off final. on 09:12 - Jan 26 with 1355 views | baxterbasics |
| Play off final. on 23:36 - Jan 25 by MattinLondon |
Automatic promotion, given the money spent on the team, is the expectation.
Promotion via the playoffs is acceptable but concerning.
Playoff failure should result in dismissal later on the same day. |
Largely agree with you other than the final line.
If we narrowly miss out, do not see any benefit in dumping KM. We can afford a second roll of the dice in 26/27 - and I'd rather he still be at the helm than any other realistic replacement.
As others have said if we end up say mid-table (still mathematically very feasible given the tightness of the league) it might be a different matter. But emphasis on the 'might' |  |
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| Play off final. on 09:14 - Jan 26 with 1350 views | Pinewoodblue |
While I would be disappointed if we fail to gain promotion this season it will have a greater impact on Kieran McKenna.
To under achieve in two consecutive seasons wouldn’t sit well on his CV. |  |
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| Play off final. on 09:24 - Jan 26 with 1305 views | _CliveBaker_ |
I think we'll finish top 2. There's a lot of points to play for, we've got a game in hand over Boro and they're still to visit PR. They'll have a tricky period at some stage themselves. I don't think its going to take an outrageous amount of points, high 80's should do it IMO. We're capable of doing 2ppg from here on in, whether we do it or not remains to be seen of course.
If we're in the playoffs we would be favourites to win them given who else is likely to be in it, but who knows in that format. I'd say anything less than promotion would be failure, but there's different degrees of failure. Its not Southampton levels, and I'd still be all for McKenna being the man to have another go at it next season, but no doubt it would be disappointing to think Coventry, Boro and lets say a Hull or Wrexham had managed to do what we haven't considering the financial advantage we had over them. |  | | |
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