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John Wick said:
I fear absolutely no f**ker next season. Newly promoted last season and made it into the playoffs. We're on people's radar as an exciting skillful team and even though it's been said countless times this season, I firmly believe that if Stewart was fit last season, there's every argument to say we may have went up but we'll never know. Alas, fans of the relegated 3 need to show the league respect because since the last time Southampton were in the championship, its charged a hell of a lot.

Trevor Sinclair on talkSPORT there for Everton. He hopes they stay up, but going down mite not be a bad thing because they'll go down, spend a season in the Championship,get rid of all the dead wood, get promoted and move into their new stadium.So very simple. It's **** like that that makes people (like me) want them to get relegated.
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I think I’ve heard that somewhere before as well <laugh>
 
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Southern A said:
Yeh I think we missed the best chance to get promoted in the championship for a long time. That’s not a knock on us or blaming anyone, we had no right to get promoted this season. I just think it was the worst the championship has been for ages.

I expect Stoke, Watford, Norwich and West Brom to all be better next season.

then you have Coventry, Boro, Southampton and probably Leeds and Leicester.


Having said that, I think we have a better chance of getting into playoffs next season than I thought we did this season. And we did. And all our players are constantly improving.

and fwiw other clubs will be looking at us and saying they expect us to improve. So it’s not like we are alone in having a challenging year ahead
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I completely agree with the part in bold and I'm more disappointed we didn't make it for that reason than really I should be.

However, the fact that there might be 6-8 teams in with a shout of the top 2 may make it easier to get into that, rather then just the top 6, as it will stay close with everyone beating everyone else.
 
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TopCat_ said:
We've proved we can compete with the best the championship has to offer and that with half a team missing. I have no concerns about next season - we will be in the mix
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Definitely think we’ll be in the mix but again it depends on our transfer business. We managed to compete with a lot of injuries but I can’t remember another team ever making the play offs with 69 points, don’t even know if it’s ever happened since the championship was rebranded. Luton, Coventry, Millwall all being up there shows how bad the division was.

We play a brand of football that’s incredible to watch and we can only get better, but we need the players to allow it to happen because we can’t have another season with as many injuries as that and expect to be up there.
 
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Southern A said:
I’d honestly like to think there are better options than Simms out there.
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We need a couple of strikers though at least. For me Simms would be ideal as Stewart cover as he can literally drop straight into our style of plate.

He now has added experience of the pressure at Everton so think he may be even better.
 
TopCat_ said:
I remember people saying that when we went down in 2017. It's bullshit. Relegation is never a good option
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I think it's been the best thing that's ever happened to us.

Many would prefer us to be miserably circling the plughole year after year because the big league is the only place to be, but we're sitting here right now pretty much united as a fanbase, two really positive seasons on the bounce, a young team that are going to improve even further and a setup to succeed for years to come. That simply wouldn't have happened were we still grimly holding on to 17th place, two of the usual crap suspects as manager every year, bang average PL journeymen on huge money, only able to plan as far as the end of the season.
 
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Southern A said:
I just feel like we are happy with Simms because we know he’s adequate rather than because we think he’s the right player. He’s kinda risk free so I get that. But I just think there must be better options personally
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Yeah maybe. If Simms has high work rate he would be perfect. He didn't press too well. But if you want that and the goal threat that he offered guess it's much bigger money. I would take Simms and another.
 
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Surely the club know what Stewart's intentions are by now. How can you look for forward recruits if you don't know what he's doing. Buying Simms or whoever to play upfront or behind Stewart if they don't know if he's staying or actually going to get over his injury is a high risk.
Are we looking for two main strikers or back up players?
Our recruitment team have to get this right whatever the scenario is regarding Srewart.
 
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