After the shame of League One footy for 3 seasons and our scary position after the m'boro defeat I'm more than happy with the comfortableness of where we sit in the championship.... Although with palace and the scum doing so well it does take the shine of our relative achievement
Don't get why you say Wigan should be relegated to division 4?? They have a top chairman, top manager and play great fotball on a shoe string budget
Completly agree teams deserve to be where they are, history and fan base should mean nothing, Wigan are an established Premier team at the moment, must not be far off the same stay as we had.
I remember a qoute from Lawrenson a few seasons ago saying the problem with the Premier at the moment is it has to many small teams, so insulting and exactly what people like him thought of us when we were there for those years.
I hope Wigan continue to stay up just to piss off the pundits and fans obssessed with fanbase size and what that club achieved in many cases 30 years or more ago, if ever.
I don't agree that being in the Premiership has to be about about desperately clinging on. For most of our Premiership years we were a comfortable mid level club-too comfortable for some peoples liking. We also challenged the top places a few times and in the process beat every top club except Man Utd at some point. The rot set in at Charlton not because we were struggling but because of general dissatisfation with mid table stability-Let us hope that if that happens again we remember what happened when Curbs left
Look at WBA this year, they are no bigger than we are and are having a real good go. i hope that Powell and the Board have bigger ambitions than some people on this board.
At the moment we need to keep ourselves in the Championship which i think is our true level,you need a 35,000 plus stadium or a mega rich owner to survive in the Prem,and we havnt got either.
At the moment we need to keep ourselves in the Championship which i think is our true level,you need a 35,000 plus stadium or a mega rich owner to survive in the Prem,and we havnt got either.
At the moment we need to keep ourselves in the Championship which i think is our true level,you need a 35,000 plus stadium or a mega rich owner to survive in the Prem,and we havnt got either.
We didn't have either for seven seasons between 2000-2007.
I know we didnt have either from 2000-2007 but look how bad we ended up all because of cash.Idont want to end up back in div 1
Our relegation from the Premiership had nothing to do with cash. Poor management Dowie/Reed/Pardew is what sent us into the Championship.
If we end up at some point in the next ten to fifteen years having a similar Prem spell before being back in the Championship again then we really cannot complain.
poor management helped send us down but lack of cash also dumped us in div 1.We are still in a poor cash situation or we wouldnt rely on loan deals,just like most clubs in the championship.
Man United Liverpool Arsenal Everton Chelsea Man City Sunderland Aston Villa Newcastle Leeds Tottenham West Ham Middlesbrough Sheff Wednesday Notts Forest Derby Leicester Blackburn Wolves Norwich
I would love to see five up, five down each year and really shake things up in the Premiership. It would give so many more teams a chance of their 'season in the sun' and a year of all that Sky money. Not such a stupid idea?
Man United Liverpool Arsenal Everton Chelsea Man City Sunderland Aston Villa Newcastle Leeds Tottenham West Ham Middlesbrough Sheff Wednesday Notts Forest Derby Leicester Blackburn Wolves Norwich
Probably the 20 biggest clubs.
Norwich can &&&& thenselves ... We're bigger than norwich ...
Football did exist before all this Premiershit shit.....makes you wonder where the top clubs played before 1992.
Not that anyone at Sky or The Sun newspaper would know.
Well said Sir .
What will happen if Asian and/or Middle East investors keep investing in teams purely to achieve Premiership status with bought in foreign mercenary talent and then serve a largely overseas TV audience?
It could leave genuine heritage teams in the Championship playing in front of real supporters.
Leicester (Thailand) and Cardiff (China) will be next to go up. Leeds Camels (Middle East) will probably follow if Ken Bates has done his sums right.
I would rather pay £20 to watch us play Notts Forest or Barnsley than Reading, Wigan, the Leicester Bangkoks or the Cardiff Dragons. Football should be a bit more than just who pays wins.
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West Ham, Southampton, Notts County, QPR, Fulham, Bury, Wimbledon, Grimsby all in places 21-44. We're tucked away in 33rd, mid-table obscurity.
Although with palace and the scum doing so well it does take the shine of our relative achievement
I remember a qoute from Lawrenson a few seasons ago saying the problem with the Premier at the moment is it has to many small teams, so insulting and exactly what people like him thought of us when we were there for those years.
I hope Wigan continue to stay up just to piss off the pundits and fans obssessed with fanbase size and what that club achieved in many cases 30 years or more ago, if ever.
Look at WBA this year, they are no bigger than we are and are having a real good go. i hope that Powell and the Board have bigger ambitions than some people on this board.
If we end up at some point in the next ten to fifteen years having a similar Prem spell before being back in the Championship again then we really cannot complain.
Liverpool
Arsenal
Everton
Chelsea
Man City
Sunderland
Aston Villa
Newcastle
Leeds
Tottenham
West Ham
Middlesbrough
Sheff Wednesday
Notts Forest
Derby
Leicester
Blackburn
Wolves
Norwich
Probably the 20 biggest clubs.
Not that anyone at Sky or The Sun newspaper would know.
Not such a stupid idea?
What will happen if Asian and/or Middle East investors keep investing in teams purely to achieve Premiership status with bought in foreign mercenary talent and then serve a largely overseas TV audience?
It could leave genuine heritage teams in the Championship playing in front of real supporters.
Leicester (Thailand) and Cardiff (China) will be next to go up. Leeds Camels (Middle East) will probably follow if Ken Bates has done his sums right.
I would rather pay £20 to watch us play Notts Forest or Barnsley than Reading, Wigan, the Leicester Bangkoks or the Cardiff Dragons. Football should be a bit more than just who pays wins.