I doubt they will though, it's supposed to a huge advantage every season for the past twenty odd years. Ye the money's gone up but the state of the clubs is still the same after relegation. It looks like none of the three relegated clubs will be straight back up this time. It'll be interesting to see what state udders are in if they get relegated. They were over 40 million in debt and had falling crowds year on year before this promotion. I don't see them to be a favourite to bounce back up if relegated. Bmouth would be in **** street if they went down and their owner pulled the plug.
Norwich and Villa threw a fortune at it last season and failed. Huddersfield didn’t and went up, it’s still doable.
Cardiff/Millwall haven't spent much and they're both likely to be in the play offs, or possibly even automatic for Cardiff.
And we haven't bought or done ****, but the parachute payments haven't done **** all for us but fill ****s pockets
Just watched those highlights. No doubt Burton were poor but just great to see our attacking style a the moment. Really hope they carry that through to Saturday.
It’s a bit of a myth that Cardiff have done things on the cheap, their wage bill is over £25m and they’re £115m in debt.
I'm pretty sure that Warnock and the Millwall manager must have had a say on who came in and who they turfed out. It will be their squads, Warnock wouldn't accept anything less. Same at Huddersfield.
Henriksen... "When you win five-zero away from home against any opponent, it's very good, we dominated the game from start to finish. "It was six or seven changes to the side from Saturday, but it was another fantastic team effort. "We all know how Nigel wants us to play and everyone is ready to contribute whenever called upon. We have a very good squad and a lot of good players "We are full of confidence at the moment and it was a great night for us at Burton. It was a positive performance and positive result. We're happy, very happy." "The support always has a big impact on the team and the fans inside the ground last night were magnificent," "They were louder than the home crowd. We've had some tough times at Hull recently. We haven't got the results we'd like on a regular basis this season and we haven't performed as consistently as we'd like either, but things are looking positive now. "It was nice to reward the fans for their fantastic support last night with such a convincing win and hopefully we continue to do so for the remainder of the season. "We've got four games left now. We have to be professional and try to win all four of them."
Thought it deserved a wider audience than ci. Well done top off there. Someone on Not606 commented on the sum of the scores in this season's games against Burton Albion. Consequently I've had a couple of trawls through history to see what I could find. I hope this is definitive; I did two runs through historic results and the final lists were not the same (which is why I often look twice). So it is possible something has been missed. I've only looked at the two league games each season, so for cases in which we played another team more than twice in a season I've ignored the other games. Perhaps I'll look into that another time. A quick check shows that in 2007-8, we beat Watford 9-2 over four games, including the play-off semis, and in 1953-4 we beat Brentford 11-4 over two league games and three FA Cup games. I looked for games in which we'd scored five or more goals, and then checked the other game from that season. For this reason I can only include instances in which we've scored 9 or more goals against another team in the two league games of a season. There have been 18 such occurrences, so they happen about once every six years on average, and yet three occurrences happened in the 1930-31 season, and another the following season. Perhaps surprisingly, the longest gap between occurrences was the 26 seasons between 1958 and 1984, which encompasses the Chilton-Wagstaff era. We have scored 10 or more goals against teams in the two league games on nine occasions, including the four when we scored double figures in a single game. Aston Villa have also reached double figures four times, but the leaders in this respect are Birmingham City with five; four of these came when they were known as Small Heath, and the fifth almost three decades before they added "City" to their name. Since then, none, and all five happened before we recorded any. A report on double-figure scores is in the oven. You'll see that stuffing a team once in a season gives no clues as to what might happen in the other game. This effect is only evident in the top half-a-dozen listed here, but there were many instances in which our total didn't reach nine goals due to the other game having a disappointing result. Here are the highest aggregates listed in the order of our goal total, the other team's total, and the season. 13-2 1938-9 Carlisle h11-1 a2-1 12-7 1919-0 Wolves h10-3 a2-4 11-1 1930-1 Halifax h10-0 a1-1 11-3 1937-8 Southport h10-1 a1-2 10-1 1957-8 Oldham h9-0 a1-1 10-2 1930-1 Doncaster h8-2 a2-0 10-2 1948-9 Halifax h6-0 a4-2 10-4 1931-2 Rochdale h4-1 a6-3 10-5 1984-5 Orient h5-1 a5-4 9-0 1909-0 Birmingham h7-0 a2-0 9-1 1914-5 Lincoln h6-1 a3-0 9-1 1951-2 Coventry h5-0 a4-1 9-1 2002-3 Carlisle h4-0 a1-5 9-1 2017-8 Burton A h4-1 a5-0 9-2 1906-7 Glossop h5-0 a4-2 9-2 2004-5 Tranmere h6-1 a3-1 9-4 1930-1 Crewe h5-1 a4-3 9-4 1994-5 Crewe h7-1 a2-3 The Orient one is the only time we've scored 5 or more against a team twice in a season. Two-match aggregates for both teams: Since it is possible that we could have had two 4-4 results against a team, and I haven't checked for that, the second and subsequent ones may not be the second, etc, highest in our history. 19 12-7 1919-0 Wolves h10-3 a2-4 15 13-2 1938-9 Carlisle h11-1 a2-1 15 10-5 1984-5 Orient h5-1 a5-4 14 11-3 1937-8 Southport h10-1 a1-2 14 10-4 1931-2 Rochdale h4-1 a6-3 Margins we "won" by: I can only show margins of 9+, due to potentially ignoring instances where the aggregate total ended 8-0 (and there was at least one of those). 11 13-2 1938-9 Carlisle h11-1 a2-1 10 11-1 1930-1 Halifax h10-0 a1-1 9 10-1 1957-8 Oldham h9-0 a1-1 9 9-0 1909-0 Birmingham h7-0 a2-0 Here's the lot again in date sequence: 9-2 1906-7 Glossop h5-0 a4-2 9-0 1909-0 Birmingham h7-0 a2-0 9-1 1914-5 Lincoln h6-1 a3-0 12-7 1919-0 Wolves h10-3 a2-4 11-1 1930-1 Halifax h10-0 a1-1 10-2 1930-1 Doncaster h8-2 a2-0 9-4 1930-1 Crewe h5-1 a4-3 10-4 1931-2 Rochdale h4-1 a6-3 11-3 1937-8 Southport h10-1 a1-2 13-2 1938-9 Carlisle h11-1 a2-1 10-2 1948-9 Halifax h6-0 a4-2 9-1 1951-2 Coventry h5-0 a4-1 10-1 1957-8 Oldham h9-0 a1-1 10-5 1984-5 Orient h5-1 a5-4 9-4 1994-5 Crewe h7-1 a2-3 9-1 2002-3 Carlisle h4-0 a1-5 9-2 2004-5 Tranmere h6-1 a3-1 9-1 2017-8 Burton A h4-1 a5-0 There were six occurrences in the 1930s and then six in the subsequent 64 years. While I was checking this lot out, I did find other possible happenings to investigate, so I'll try to remember those for future posts. I'm also planning to write a program to do it all for me.
