| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. 17:36 - May 23 with 2947 views | gainsboroughblue |
As for us, we may actualy only be third favourites for relegation |  |
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 19:11 - May 23 with 2688 views | Trequartista |
If the Premier League can show the same bottle as the EFL and deduct enough points to relegate Man City we're golden. |  |
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 19:14 - May 23 with 2666 views | mellowblue |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 19:11 - May 23 by Trequartista |
If the Premier League can show the same bottle as the EFL and deduct enough points to relegate Man City we're golden. |
Pep clearly does not want to be associated with whatever outcome City get. Maybe he has got wind of the punishment. |  | | |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 19:17 - May 23 with 2634 views | Trequartista |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 19:14 - May 23 by mellowblue |
Pep clearly does not want to be associated with whatever outcome City get. Maybe he has got wind of the punishment. |
There won't be any effective punishment. The top teams can afford better lawyers than the Premier League, who really don't want to provoke anything that might usher teams towards a European Super League | |
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 14:17 - May 24 with 2033 views | Churchman |
Why should it be any more brutal than any other season? Two of this season’s first year parachute teams are no longer there and the other is 4 points down with more trouble to follow.
This season’s relegateds? Burnley and wolves are no better than the three that fell away last year and who’s to say West Ham’s finances will sustain a decent challenge? Bowen apart there team has looked disinterested.
Who does that leave? Play off sides plus maybe one or two others like Birmingham, Derby and Wrexham. None of the L1 teams look strong enough to surprise but it’ll be competitive and fun, that’s for sure.
Hopefully Norwich will have enough to avoid relegation after Clement leaves. 😀 |  | | |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 14:27 - May 24 with 1983 views | vapour_trail |
I really think Spurs will struggle if they come down.
Wolves and Burnley will be very strong.
There’s a few who will be much better than they’ve been this year, and a few with money to throw around. Spurs are a disorganised mess. |  |
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 14:48 - May 24 with 1910 views | BlueNomad |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 14:27 - May 24 by vapour_trail |
I really think Spurs will struggle if they come down.
Wolves and Burnley will be very strong.
There’s a few who will be much better than they’ve been this year, and a few with money to throw around. Spurs are a disorganised mess. |
De Zerbi will do a good job with the team.
Pedantic point; no-one is “coming down” to us. We are above them now. [Post edited 24 May 14:49]
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 14:51 - May 24 with 1883 views | RetroBlue |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 14:17 - May 24 by Churchman |
Why should it be any more brutal than any other season? Two of this season’s first year parachute teams are no longer there and the other is 4 points down with more trouble to follow.
This season’s relegateds? Burnley and wolves are no better than the three that fell away last year and who’s to say West Ham’s finances will sustain a decent challenge? Bowen apart there team has looked disinterested.
Who does that leave? Play off sides plus maybe one or two others like Birmingham, Derby and Wrexham. None of the L1 teams look strong enough to surprise but it’ll be competitive and fun, that’s for sure.
Hopefully Norwich will have enough to avoid relegation after Clement leaves. 😀 |
I think the Championship is going to be an evrn bigger farce next season, with this new PO situation. Teams finishing just above half way in the division will have a crack at promotion. Ridiculous. |  |
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 14:51 - May 24 with 1879 views | vapour_trail |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 14:48 - May 24 by BlueNomad |
De Zerbi will do a good job with the team.
Pedantic point; no-one is “coming down” to us. We are above them now. [Post edited 24 May 14:49]
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Ha yes, good correction 👍.
On the other side of the coin, I think we are going up with two pretty weak sides, so may just need to find one other to pull ourselves above next year. | |
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 20:35 - May 24 with 1658 views | Tractor_Boy333 |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 14:51 - May 24 by vapour_trail |
Ha yes, good correction 👍.
On the other side of the coin, I think we are going up with two pretty weak sides, so may just need to find one other to pull ourselves above next year. |
Coventry had a great season but neither of their strikers got a kick against us.
Have to see what business ourselves and the other promoted teams do but they think we’re better equipped that the other 2 to stay up. | | | |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 20:39 - May 24 with 1640 views | MattinLondon |
No it won’t. The championship will stay the same similar standard next season as this season. |  | | |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 21:36 - May 24 with 1515 views | PrideOfTheEast |
Suspect a chunk of the league will have got carried away with what’s been an outlier season in lots of ways. I reckon the 3 relegated clubs go straight back up. | | | |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 21:40 - May 24 with 1481 views | GlasgowBlue |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 20:39 - May 24 by MattinLondon |
No it won’t. The championship will stay the same similar standard next season as this season. |
The only difference is that I don't see once of the relegated Premier League teams going down to league one the way Luton and Leicester have over the past two seasons.
I think that the top six will be stronger this year bit the rest of the division will be much the same. |  |
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 22:14 - May 24 with 1366 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 21:40 - May 24 by GlasgowBlue |
The only difference is that I don't see once of the relegated Premier League teams going down to league one the way Luton and Leicester have over the past two seasons.
I think that the top six will be stronger this year bit the rest of the division will be much the same. |
It’s going to be very interesting to see what happens with Wolves and West Ham. I expect both to be in financial distress unless they offload a lot of stars.
Both will lose around £75M revenue. This puts West Ham at £150M income, and Wolves at £100M. Their current squad cost for the new financial rules are £275M and £240M respectively. Both have huge wage bills and massive ongoing player amortisation costs. That would put their SCR ratios at 183% and 240%!!!
Yes, they will get their costs down, but only with significant player offloads. I suspect the squads we see playing today to be very different next season for both. | | | |
| Three relegated clubs straight back up (n/t) on 22:53 - May 24 with 1226 views | unstableblue |
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 23:07 - May 24 with 1144 views | Churchman |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 14:51 - May 24 by RetroBlue |
I think the Championship is going to be an evrn bigger farce next season, with this new PO situation. Teams finishing just above half way in the division will have a crack at promotion. Ridiculous. |
I forgot about that. You are right and the word ‘farce’ covers it well.
If I look at this season’s table, Coventry dominated and won it with a margin to spare. Seeing how we played at the end of the season when the team really formed, we finished where we deserved. Table rarely lies. In fact, the top five were right.
After that the margins between the next three were wafer thin. Hull won out and were deservedly promoted. However, had you put another couple of sides in the play offs would that not have devalued a 46 game season to even more of a lottery? Hull over those 46 games were the worst of the four play off teams.
I’m just not sure adding teams is the right thing, however much it prolongs a season.
Thoughts? [Post edited 25 May 7:07]
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 23:10 - May 24 with 1133 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
We certainly wouldn’t be favs to win the league again either, on paper a vital year to go up. |  |
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 05:46 - May 25 with 895 views | LA_Tractor_Boy |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 23:07 - May 24 by Churchman |
I forgot about that. You are right and the word ‘farce’ covers it well.
If I look at this season’s table, Coventry dominated and won it with a margin to spare. Seeing how we played at the end of the season when the team really formed, we finished where we deserved. Table rarely lies. In fact, the top five were right.
After that the margins between the next three were wafer thin. Hull won out and were deservedly promoted. However, had you put another couple of sides in the play offs would that not have devalued a 46 game season to even more of a lottery? Hull over those 46 games were the worst of the four play off teams.
I’m just not sure adding teams is the right thing, however much it prolongs a season.
Thoughts? [Post edited 25 May 7:07]
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From a sporting perspective, it's 'unfair' that a team who finishes 8th can be promoted over a team that finishes 3rd. It took a long time for supporters to accept that 6th can be promoted over 3rd, as was the case this season.
But as we know, football is a business now and Championship clubs lose millions every year. It's the worst division to be in from a financial perspective and the reason why IMO Marcus Evans was happy for us to languish in L1 or L2, but that's a different conversation.
EFL clubs voted for this change, because they're all hoping for that golden ticket to the PL. I don't think the PL are delighted, as they don't want whipping boys in their division as it devalues the competition. It's hard enough to bridge the gap as it is.
One positive for me, is that in April each year every club will either be battling against relegation or to finish in the top 8. Sometimes clubs could find themselves doing both. It will make the Championship even more competitive and compelling. | | | |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 07:43 - May 25 with 691 views | NewcyBlue |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 14:51 - May 24 by vapour_trail |
Ha yes, good correction 👍.
On the other side of the coin, I think we are going up with two pretty weak sides, so may just need to find one other to pull ourselves above next year. |
I think Sunderland have shown that could be flawed thinking. |  |
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 07:47 - May 25 with 671 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 05:46 - May 25 by LA_Tractor_Boy |
From a sporting perspective, it's 'unfair' that a team who finishes 8th can be promoted over a team that finishes 3rd. It took a long time for supporters to accept that 6th can be promoted over 3rd, as was the case this season.
But as we know, football is a business now and Championship clubs lose millions every year. It's the worst division to be in from a financial perspective and the reason why IMO Marcus Evans was happy for us to languish in L1 or L2, but that's a different conversation.
EFL clubs voted for this change, because they're all hoping for that golden ticket to the PL. I don't think the PL are delighted, as they don't want whipping boys in their division as it devalues the competition. It's hard enough to bridge the gap as it is.
One positive for me, is that in April each year every club will either be battling against relegation or to finish in the top 8. Sometimes clubs could find themselves doing both. It will make the Championship even more competitive and compelling. |
I think the Prem clubs will be delighted, and by extension the Premier League will too. It means less chance of relegation for the big boys. |  |
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 11:12 - May 25 with 429 views | RetroBlue |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 23:07 - May 24 by Churchman |
I forgot about that. You are right and the word ‘farce’ covers it well.
If I look at this season’s table, Coventry dominated and won it with a margin to spare. Seeing how we played at the end of the season when the team really formed, we finished where we deserved. Table rarely lies. In fact, the top five were right.
After that the margins between the next three were wafer thin. Hull won out and were deservedly promoted. However, had you put another couple of sides in the play offs would that not have devalued a 46 game season to even more of a lottery? Hull over those 46 games were the worst of the four play off teams.
I’m just not sure adding teams is the right thing, however much it prolongs a season.
Thoughts? [Post edited 25 May 7:07]
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I agree with re that top 6. As they say ,the cream generally rises to the top. But to extend the POs by even just a further two teams gives almost a season, within a season, as 6 sides will now fight it out at the end of a 46 game season. It becomes an even bigger lottery in my view, whereby there will.now be the potential for an 8th placed club to "win" promotion on the back this mini league when they weren't good enough to even challenge the top section of clubs over 46 games.
The 8th placed team could conceivable be something like 15-18 points adrift of the top two, yet get promoted alongside them. Im sure the PL wont be too impressed. The gap is big enough now as it is...
Next season you'll have West Ham, Burnley, Wolves who you'd expect ( though doesnt always pan out) in that top 6. Then the near misses from this season unless theres further sanctions against them to come, would potentially see Saints, Boro, Millwall and id suggest Wrexham and " them" all in the mix. Not for the feint hearted! | |
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 11:55 - May 25 with 345 views | Broadbent23 |
Yes the Championship will be stronger. The likes of West Ham, Wolves, Burnley, Millwall, Middlesbrough, Wrexham, Birmingham, Derby, Norwich, Sheffield Utd, Southampton and possibly Stoke and West Brom getting in the mix. Eight teams fighting for top two or play off places. But unfortunately we need to double our points from the previous Prem term. We wait and see what the transfer market can muster. | |
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 13:11 - May 25 with 226 views | ringwoodblue |
Each team fluctuates year on year. Just look at Hull. So teams like Saints, Boro and Millwall may struggle next season and teams with momentum like Wrexham, Derby, Brum and even Lincoln might do well.
The standard of the Championship seemed to be lower this season compared to 23/24 and it looks to be more challenging next season so I’m glad we secured promotion this year.
Burnley are used to the Championship so I expect them to be up there. Wolves will depend on if they can keep their best players like Mane. West Ham will probably start slowly and end up in the top 6. Can’t see any of them getting relegated to Lg1.
Think Stoke, Pompey (if they lose Mousinho) and Bolton will go down. |  |
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| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 13:49 - May 25 with 121 views | gainsboroughblue |
| The Championship is going to be effing brutal next season. on 13:11 - May 25 by ringwoodblue |
Each team fluctuates year on year. Just look at Hull. So teams like Saints, Boro and Millwall may struggle next season and teams with momentum like Wrexham, Derby, Brum and even Lincoln might do well.
The standard of the Championship seemed to be lower this season compared to 23/24 and it looks to be more challenging next season so I’m glad we secured promotion this year.
Burnley are used to the Championship so I expect them to be up there. Wolves will depend on if they can keep their best players like Mane. West Ham will probably start slowly and end up in the top 6. Can’t see any of them getting relegated to Lg1.
Think Stoke, Pompey (if they lose Mousinho) and Bolton will go down. |
Stoke and Preston will be top 6 in October and bottom six in May. It's what they do. | |
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