Never understood why people think because you get beaten by teams in Championship (sometimes convincingly) but still manage to get promoted then suddenly any big team in the Premier League is guaranteed to destroy you. Swansea, QPR & Norwich lost games in the Championship last season you know? We are top of the league because we have been the best team up until now, which means we are best equipped to make the step up.
Exactly and fair comment Like I've said before the table doesn't lie and you deserve to go up but also will you get another better chance than this season as its been two from three for some time now with you boys leading for a long time Second season syndrome is something else to consider as well although I can't see you being in our position next season if you don't go up this season being a much bigger club with vastly much more revenue behind you due to your much bigger fan base as you've surely averaged over 20,000 a home game this season as an educated guess I'd imagine
What unmitigated twaddle. I was with you completely up to the point where you wrote that. It doesn't matter whether a team gets a dozen penalties in the last 10 minutes. If they are justified they are legitimate penalties. There is no element of luck in them at all. And did my eyes deceive me or is the odd person clinging to that old myth that luck evens itself out over a season..? More twaddle. There is no such thing as luck. There are a number of variables, including human error and good/bad timing. Anything else is in the mind of the observer to invent. I'm sorry to be a bit vehement on this, but really. I think I'll just pop down to the bottom of the garden to check with the fairies.
Is that what the fairies at the bottom of your garden said? I don't know if things even themselves out over a season or not, but I do think that good sides - i.e. Manchester Utd, Saints over the past two seasons, etc - get things going their way simply because they are good teams. You don't get penalties, dodgy or otherwise, given if you're not in your opponent's box. Good teams spend a lot of time in their opponents' box.
Yeah. That I can completely agree with. People talk about making your own luck. It's an in-calculated way of saying [in respect to football] that by good preparation, doing the right things well enough, with good enough people, a football team influences the game to go their way. It's not luck, it's a whole set of variables that a good manager, like Adkins, can influence, by getting the fundamentals and the advanced things right. If anyone mentions luck it's because it is common parlance, and we know what the person is talking about. But let's not run away with the idea that it actually exists. Hence my fairies at the bottom of the garden reference.
I agree too, but united do get the rub of the green far more often than most! Yet another example yesterday.
There is another element which, because of crowd influence and human error, I think decisions can sometimes go with the home side. Supporters say, Oh, the Ref's a homer..! I can certainly understand that a crowd can influence a decision, and the more noise and people the more influential they can be to the officials. There's no noisier a place than OT.
Just read the title. Dopey Thread really as there are no cons..... or shall we weigh them up and if they are outweighed against going up, shall we stay where we are??? Mindless.
The only downside for me is that i will almost surely pay more for my and my two sons tickets but hey ho i will have to work the odd extra saturday to feed my habit
