I just wondered what the rest of you thought? My feeling is there are now more ex Premiership teams, more money in the Championship and therefore better players - making for a tougher higher quality league. Share your thoughts.
It's an unusual one. Your logic works, and there are many more top players in the league than usual, but from what you see of the supposedly tougher teams at the KC it makes you wonder. We beat Swansea 2-0 and drew with Watford and Notts Forest 0-0 at the KC. I can remember thinking every game 'these are bloody awful' (despite being held to a 0-0 draw against two of the three). You then look at the table and see that the teams that looked more like relegation candidates than promotion chasers at the KC are actually in the top 10. Also, I think it's much tighter this year as the newly-relegated teams are not ripping the league apart. West Brom and Newcastle are a recent example, both relegated but both occupying the automatic promotion places and therefore ensuring there is no real fight for them. This year, however, the three recently relegated teams were either in threat of administration, facing a winding up order or signing Dean Marney, so were never likely to storm it.
haha! "This year, however, the three recently relegated teams were either in threat of administration, facing a winding up order or signing Dean Marney" Love that!
The Championship is horrible this year. There's us and Reading, and a load of teams that just defend. Obviously, I haven't seen QPR yet but most of the teams this year just bang 100 men behind the ball and stop us scoring.
I reckon it's about even, there is some more money and maybe a better spread of players, but in opposition to that there are more defensively minded teams so I reckon it evens itself out
Interesting - I also wonder if perhaps some of you think the quality is worse as you've been used to watching EPL teams?
theres more teams with big owners now. theyve seen small teams go up and stay up and can make some good money from little investment but which in championship terms is a huge investment, aswell as limited premier squads has increased the class of players playing in the championship
I don't feel it is, there are more teams with decent squads, but less teams with actual quality. Only Cardiff have a squad that stand out, QPR are a good team but individually i doubt that many would get in our team. So its a no from me.
I do think it is hard to judge. As mentioned earlier, most of the teams that have come to the kc this season have just sat back, come for the 0-0 and either got it or scraped a 1-0 win. I think it is more evenly matched but as for the quality im not so sure it has improved.
I disagree I think it's quite easy to judge, the quality is far lower. We're in the top half after 27 games despite effectively having played the first 20 games without a striker. The season we went up even WBA wouldn't have managed that and their midfield was far more intimiadating to oppposition defences than Kilbane, Ashbee, and Harper/Zayatte (with Koren obviously being in both).
Says you with the 2nd lowest home goalscoring record in the league The only teams that actually attack are us, Leeds, QPR, Watford and Norwich.
We didn't have the players at that stage. How many of the strikers we used that day are still playing each week in the Championship?
