According to The Express today, SCP has said that whilst the plan is to get out of the Championship in 2 / 3 years, it could take 5 / 6 years to get out of this division. Lets hope he doesn't achieve it this year......in the wrong direction!
I think the plan ought to be 1-2 years. You can't have a 5 year plan to get out of a division when you think about it. Too much can happen in that time.
Took Curbs 7 seasons , so to better that would be good , takes the heat off him , and hopefully makes the supporters a bit more realistic.If we had stormed the division this season , and we'd struggled in the Prem , everyone would have the hump , Powell would probably get the chop like Adkins , hope our owners are a bit more understanding.
I would happily take mid table obscurity in this league for the next 5 years for now, never mind worrying about going up. Dont run before you can walk etc!
Maybe the 5-6 years takes into account the randomness of the seasons. I mean you could be in the play-offs every year for 6 seasons and have one bad game out of three and fail to go up.
I'm encouraged that they are talking about having a plan that runs for 5 seasons to be honest as the impression I get is that we go up this season or next or we implode!
The statement implies steady investment and team building. The current losses are at 8 million per year. Add investment in the squad and over the next five seasons a conservative guess at our losses would be 40 million.
Article also states that CP was a player coach working with ID, LR, AP and PP before being asked by the board to take charge. Not sure that is correct.
Article also states that CP was a player coach working with ID, LR, AP and PP before being asked by the board to take charge. Not sure that is correct.
he was with alan pardew i believe, but not the others.
It's based on softly softly rather than balls-to-the-wall-throwing-money-at-it
I'm happy to consolidate this year And next Flirt with the play-offs and progress from there
The silly thing is - our away form is promotion form so it shows we are no mugs. Maybe we should look a little bloser to home and make it hostile for the opponents as opposed to our own players
It's based on softly softly rather than balls-to-the-wall-throwing-money-at-it
I'm happy to consolidate this year And next Flirt with the play-offs and progress from there
The silly thing is - our away form is promotion form so it shows we are no mugs. Maybe we should look a little bloser to home and make it hostile for the opponents as opposed to our own players
Whatever happened to the support we gave the lads when we were 2-0 down against Cardiff? More of that please.
It's based on softly softly rather than balls-to-the-wall-throwing-money-at-it
I'm happy to consolidate this year And next Flirt with the play-offs and progress from there
The silly thing is - our away form is promotion form so it shows we are no mugs. Maybe we should look a little bloser to home and make it hostile for the opponents as opposed to our own players
Whatever happened to the support we gave the lads when we were 2-0 down against Cardiff? More of that please.
It's a symbiotic thing. The players fed off the crowd but the crowd fed off the players. Well, off JJ really (at first).
Like someone pointed out before, it took seven years for Curbs to get us into the Premier League. Powell has shown last year what he can achieve as the manager of our club and as long as he's allowed to continue his work here (with enough funding to improve the squad because he's not a miracle worker), we will continue to be upwardly mobile.
People underestimate the power of the new TV deal coming into the Premiership from next season. The gap is set to grow much bigger from tier 1 to tier 2.
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Can't afford any more 'consolidation' years, in the Championship there's a fine line between midtable and relegation.
I'm encouraged that they are talking about having a plan that runs for 5 seasons to be honest as the impression I get is that we go up this season or next or we implode!
Didn't they "flirt" with relegation a couple of seasons ago ?
I'm happy to consolidate this year
And next
Flirt with the play-offs and progress from there
The silly thing is - our away form is promotion form so it shows we are no mugs. Maybe we should look a little bloser to home and make it hostile for the opponents as opposed to our own players
You can't say they have been massive spenders, yet they are on target.
And many of their fans will tell you they took their inspiration from us....
That's my take on it at least. :-)