Good and accurate post, though I don't expect it to be well received by KIO, Supers, Gandy et al, it will take the gloss off their cup final victory.
Take the gloss off, it didn't even take away the stench from your turd of a team. You reek of League One, in both ideology and quality. Best you get down there quick because your manager is just not interested in football. Hopefully you'll meet a Chris Hughton side and you can bore each other into submission.
The funniest thing about all this is the budgies reaction to winning! Most of them are still as bitter as ever! No class whatsoever but then Adams himself demonstrated that after the game. You budgies have no imagination that's your real problem! For years and years you have been clinging onto our coat tails just hoping and praying that one day you too would achieve everything that your larger more illustrious neighbour has done and then some! Then finally your moment in the sunshine arrives and you reach the promised land where for 3 years to basically end up doing nothing of any real note before getting relegated again! The funny thing is that you view this as a major footballing achievement and some kind of breakthrough when in reality you still haven't won anything! In our first season back in the premiership we finished 5th and qualified for Europe now that's what I call an achievement. Basically the only aspirations you boys have is to be another West Brom! Boring non achievement but in the top league! When we get promoted again we will be looking to qualify for Europe again not just be there for the sake of being there! That's the big difference between us, we want to achieve things and can at times while you are just happy to participate!
It looks like a comment on the EADT website, which i think is the sister of the EDP and has the same system, so the 23 will be the date next to the name of the poster. Whoever owns that ipad obviously didn't realise that you can screenshot by clicking the main and the lock button at the same time.
I would rather go up then down then down again then win the thing then go up again etc etc than stagnate in the same dull league playing a maximum of 6 different sides for 20 plus years, grasping hold of the history of your fathers father.
The funniest thing was seeing how bad you are. As for Europe, the only thing you have in common is the financial management of Greece and Italy.
-Larger club, please specify how? And don't give us the usual history lesson scum fans give when they go on the defensive, nobody gives a f** that you won something back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the Magna Carta was formed. Is it on terms of financial backing? Is your club Debt Free and receiving parachute payments! If it's on terms of attendance your gates are absolutely laughable and are only dwindling. -You qualified for Europe but didn't you go down in that season too? Quite amateurish that you can't coordinate a European campaign to coincide with the Premiership. -Ipswich Town will not play European football for 20 years perhaps never again, stop taking drugs there is ambition and there is being deluded. European football is more or less a closed shop unless a club is brought out by a Russian Oligarch or Arab Royalty it's difficult to compete, the only thing you can do is win the FA cup and qualify for the Europa league.
In this day and age it is impossible to leap up the divisions without a very wealthy, and generous, owner. You can't have one good manager getting a team promoted and then winning the PL. There's too much of a gap between the very top and the middle orders of the Prem. Back then there was much more flux and the competition was much closer, a bit like the Championship now. The only real way to do it now is slowly build, accepting it will be gradual with occasional slip-ups. You've got to walk before you can run. Norwich have the major advantage of potential and room for expansion. They're doing it the right way. There's no point aiming for "Europe" as soon as you get promoted. You want to aim to get to Europe within, say, seven years. We are, despite being in the same division, far closer to it than Ipswich, not just in league position terms but in facilities, etc. If we get promoted this year, and continue managing the club as we have for the last four years, I see us as being capable of regularly competing for a European slot within five years. Getting relegated, believe it or not, may well be a defining moment in helping us regroup and not aim to shoot up the table too fast. If we can make it to comfortable mid-table, we will be able to challenge for the odd trophy. East Anglia has two league cups, an FA cup, a league title and a European Cup between us. That's pathetic from both clubs. We should be aiming to add another League or FA Cup to that collection in the next decade. Ipswich won't be helping us so we are going to need to carry the flag for East Anglia.
Is Hull City or Swansea City owned by Russian Oligarchs or Arabian oil sheikhs? Or even Wigan Athletic for that matter
Hull City certainly is - don't you remember the rumpus about wanting to change the club's name to Hull Tigers or something similar?? Not sure re Swansea or Wigan.
Yep. It took Swansea 12 years, it's taken Hull 7 years and a relegation Wigan took six years. Good examples, thanks JWM. Patience and long-term commitment to sound management. Look at Swansea now.
You obviously didn't read the bit about winning the FA cup then. Europe is closed shop unless you do well in the domestic cups and lets face it the Europa league has lost its glamour, it's all about the Champions League and good luck for qualifying for that one by the way.
And how many of those clubs started the season with "Let's try and get ourselves European football this season?" They had good cup runs, aided by reasonable fixtures, a bit of luck and strong squad spirit. Yes there's been a bit of a glut of unlikely clubs qualifying in the last few years, but it's hardly the standard state of things. Clubs like WBA, Sunderland, Stoke, etc have made the first step of establishing themselves in the Premier League, giving them a platform to give cup competitions their full attention without fear of relegation. 13 years of dire, mediocre football seems scant reward for earning 2 games against Inter.
