One can never turn up he chance to go up. It means the season is fun and surely compensates for the subsequent season of disappointment. It means we are more competitive and there's always hope the extra money is spent well and the club moves forward ....and hope dies last!!!
I think you'd have to be mad to not to want to go up.... Even if, on the football front it turned into an unmitigated disaster, financially it still helps set you up again for the next season and beyond (if managed correctly). However, that's not to say that from a fan perspective, watching us get thumped most weeks and seeing us come straight back down for the third time it wouldn't be hard viewing and all rather demoralising. In short, with a business head on, it's a no brainer, you chase the money. With an emotional fan head on, I can't stand the Premier League and all that it stands for and there is definitely an argument to saying that it's more enjoyable playing in a radiatively evenly matched Championship than it is in a heavily lopsided top flight. It's been said before but football sold its soul in 1992 and has done nothing but plunge further and further into a money filled abyss since, but reaching the highest point you can is what football has always been about so of course we have to go for it, just not at the sake of club security (I see Forest could be in danger of FFP rules/fines/points deductions and Everton could also be on the brink of further penalties too). To my mind, the sooner they create a full European (and then no doubt World) Super League and all the 'big' clubs sod off to that and allow us to reform the football league again the better (though even that depends on the clubs all deciding fairness and sporting integrity is more important than money, which is highly unlikely).
In a European (let alone world) league supporters would also need a boatload of money or there would be no travelling fans.
I think you'd have to take it, being cognisant of the fact that next season would be painful. The goal might be to become a yo-yo club for a few years, though our last two promotions put us in a hole when we came back down. So, take it, but what's the plan? Take the Forrest approach and chuck £100M at it and hope to survive? Spend very little and hope for a miracle? Take a long term view and plan for the year after relegation? I'd go for the last one, and hope for a couple teams to get 10 point deductions while we're up there as a bonus. DoF anyone?
That's the thing though FFB, the clubs won't need many travelling fans as TV rights, club's own PPV channels, merchandise and just the 'prize money' alone would mean they can do without them... plus there'll always be the fans in each country that adopt their favourite teams... how many US based Man Utd and Liverpool fans are there?? How often do you see the 'big' Prem shirts on display in places like the far east?? Sadly paying/attending fans are probably one of the smaller revenue streams nowadays... I think even the aborted European Super League was going to be so financially lucrative that they'd worked out they could play without fans present and still make money... I'm with Remote though, whilst we still have the monstrosity that is the Premier League to aim for then taking promotion, hoping for the best by spending within reason but planning for failure with longer term objectives in mind would absolutely be the best approach. It's interesting to see Brentford starting to struggle a bit.... how would they cope if they come down do we think after a few years of 'success'? They've started to gradually spend big on player transfer fees (by their previous standards) and I'd assume wages have jumped massively too. If they came down and didn't go straight back up whilst struggling to hold on to their 'star' players they could end up like the Jacks and struggle to make ends meet again for a while, meaning cutbacks and a stripping away of all the good that was achieved ... Christ I'm clearly in a gloomy mood today
I would go for a positive second half to the season, finish 7th or 8th so no play off heartache. Then build on what we have for a big push next season. An improved squad in terms of ability, confidence and giving the 2 Colwills, King and other good youngsters a chance to cement their places in the squad. I think to go up and come down again does little for anyone. Okay the bank balance can improve, we can reopen the shelf above the Ninian and get to see the top sides in England. However, in an effort to stay in the Prem the club would feel obliged to spend big money in fees and wages and, as in the past we may then have to offload if relegated again. All of that is very painful. Let's build with a 24/25 target.
No probs, go balls in for the play-offs and see what happens, never a wrong time to get promoted, just need a quick adjustment when you get there
So in essence, get in there, do the business as best as you can and if it all gets a bit messy and not as hoped for then get out just as quick and hope for forgiveness from those that matter and pray for no unintended consequences??? Sounds very Masky esq to me
Another way of asking the question is do you want to suffer like Sheff U & Burnley fans have this season as even if City did miraculously get up, the club without proper infrastructure and planning would not survive & prosper in the PL like eg BHA & Brentford. This has been proven the case twice now for City. However if it’s a free punt like Luton you want who will in all probability go down, they’ve not spent much money and will have a huge war chest next season in their new ground to build and stabilise a more sustainable promotion bid, and then survive and prosper then yes go for it now.
Well if we go up and come down at least we had a season, or is staying mid table in the championship the high of your thinking.
As we will not be playing in any super league it does not affect us. As far as getting rid of top teams to make things easier for the rest of the clubs what an attitude, the whole point of promotion is the chance to play these top sides. This idea of building a foundation is a fallacy, why wait till next season when we may be worse off? Rooney won 2 out of 15 and wanted more time, time for what? Either you win games today or there might not be a tomorrow.
oals per 90 Mins Regardless of game time, it's your ratio of goals if you played 90mins 1 Ike Ugbo 0.38 2 Kion Etete 0.30 3 Karlan Grant 0.20 4 Perry Ng 0.17 5 Josh Bowler 0.16 6 Dimitrios Goutas 0.15 7 Rubin Colwill 0.14 8 Callum Robinson 0.11 9 Ollie Tanner 0.11 10 Mark McGuinness 0.08 11 Joe Ralls 0.06 12 Ryan Wintle 0.06 13 Yakou Meite 0.06
