Tough Tough division

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Red Robin

Red Robin

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Well we know who is in the championship next season from the prem and looking at what is coming up from the league one this is going to be one hell of a lot harder to get out off.
NP has to get his incomings right for us to have a tilt at promotion.
For me if team’s like Luton and Brentford-Burnley-Brighton- Crystal Palace can do it then so can Bristol City.
We have the ground-we have the manager-we have the fans-we just need a team that can do it.
Over to you Nige.
 
The championship is always a tough division, others have managed it, we’re going to have to one year, why not this one?
 
Red Robin said:
All comes down to what Nige brings in-we need four/five quality players to come.
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Cant see us getting that many, four tops imo, also depends what happens with Kalas, I’d love him to stay, but think it’s unlikely.

A smaller squad gives room for academy progression, which is vital to keeping best young talent being drawn to us.
 
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seems to be a level headed plan on the table, and there is still a contract on the table for HNM!
 
It’s always a tough division
Everton have dodged a bullet yet again
The 3 coming down will always be favourites to go straight back up but factor in WBA, Watford and Norwich plus Sunderland and Boro it’s going to be a hell of a scrap
 
AshtonRed said:
The HNM deal is to ensure we get compo, we have to offer at least as good a deal as the best one he’d already had. He doesn’t want to stay here.
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His interview was intriguing, seems he wasnt paying much attention to contracts just making sure his football improved?
 
There’s a similar thread on OTIB and I posted this:

Without trying to state the obvious; the relegated teams are coming down because they’re too crap for the Prem.
The ones staying in the Championship (like ourselves) are here because we are not good enough to go up and not poor enough to drop to League 1 (apart from Cardiff who benefited from Reading’s points deduction)
Plymouth, Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday proved they were too good for League 1.

There are indeed some big names in the Championship next season, but we are ALL in the second tier for a reason. There’s no difference to any year IMHO. The newly relegated teams will have the advantage of parachute payments - but that’s been the case for years for teams coming down from the Prem.
I don’t think the coming season will be any more challenging than any other in the Championship for us - in fact it could be slightly easier now we’ve steadied the finances and have some money to spend.
 
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bcfcredandwhite said:
There’s a similar thread on OTIB and I posted this:

Without trying to state the obvious; the relegated teams are coming down because they’re too crap for the Prem.
The ones staying in the Championship (like ourselves) are here because we are not good enough to go up and not poor enough to drop to League 1 (apart from Cardiff who benefited from Reading’s points deduction)
Plymouth, Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday proved they were too good for League 1.

There are indeed some big names in the Championship next season, but we are ALL in the second tier for a reason. There’s no difference to any year IMHO. The newly relegated teams will have the advantage of parachute payments - but that’s been the case for years for teams coming down from the Prem.
I don’t think the coming season will be any more challenging than any other in the Championship for us - in fact it could be slightly easier now we’ve steadied the finances and have some money to spend.
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Spot on, I don’t get all this next season is going to difficult, every season is difficult, and as you rightly pointed out we are in a much better position ourselves, so it should be less difficult, not more.
 
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bcfcredandwhite said:
There’s a similar thread on OTIB and I posted this:

Without trying to state the obvious; the relegated teams are coming down because they’re too crap for the Prem.
The ones staying in the Championship (like ourselves) are here because we are not good enough to go up and not poor enough to drop to League 1 (apart from Cardiff who benefited from Reading’s points deduction)
Plymouth, Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday proved they were too good for League 1.

There are indeed some big names in the Championship next season, but we are ALL in the second tier for a reason. There’s no difference to any year IMHO. The newly relegated teams will have the advantage of parachute payments - but that’s been the case for years for teams coming down from the Prem.
I don’t think the coming season will be any more challenging than any other in the Championship for us - in fact it could be slightly easier now we’ve steadied the finances and have some money to spend.
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Sorry this is a far stronger league than previous seasons. More like prem 2 now.
 
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AshtonRed said:
Your logic? Bcfcr&w has explained why it isn’t, why do you think it is?
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The quality of the sides coming down is far stronger than what has gone up and the sides going down are far weaker than what has come up.
The is as hard as I can remember in the championship but I hope Nige can put a side together to do us proud this season.
We need another 4 quality signings in top of the two he has in his pocket.
 
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