If we had won the playoffs...

[Fjortoft's Aeroplane]

Parallel universe time.

If Burrows goal vs Sunderland hadn't been chalked off by a dodgy VAR decision, we'd be in the Premier League this season with our new owners for the very first time.
Chances are we'd have kept Souza and Anel (not sure they're Prem quality tbh) and signed better than we did, but how much better?

So overall how do you think we'd be doing in the Prem? Better than last time under the Prince? Better than the last 2 seasons under the prince? As good as 19/20? Or worse than ever?

 

[nopigfansintown]

Depends on the owner's ambition.

 

[Brian Deane]

We certainly wouldn't be where Sunderland are.

 

[MKY]

Obviously it would be garbage. We’re not fit for purpose behind the scenes.

 

[mattbianco1]

Proper sliding doors moment. It's mad to think really that had that goal stood, Wolves wouldn't be bottom now

 

[steve26272]

Wilder would have stayed

Mcburnie would have returned
Mcatee would be joining in JTW on loan
We wouldn’t have signed Xhaka

Wilder would be engineering his exit in the new year

We’d be relegated by April

But we’d be another year of prem money better off

And for the first time in a long time, we wouldn’t have to worry about facing the scrubbers.

 

[Lane Ender]

Guaranteed to spoil my weekends on a regular basis
Mind this season’s performances!

 

[Fjortoft's Aeroplane]

At the end of the 23/24 season I remember being miffed that our squad wasn't even looking that hot for the Championship. The one thing I ask is that if we go up and don't survive, at least look shit hot for the championship. I can't say that I believe COH would have got us to that level had we been promoted.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

If we had won the playoffs my hair would have started to repopulate my head, I would have got a huge payrise and Heather Graham would be in the kitchen making me some toast.

Thanks a lot Chris!

 

[Kenilworth]

A DOF would’ve seen us reyt

 

[Snowflake]

If we had won the playoffs my hair would have started to repopulate my head, I would have got a huge payrise and Heather Graham would be in the kitchen making me some toast.

Thanks a lot Chris!

Only toast ?

 

[1066blade]

A 53 year old? Is that the best you can dream up?

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

As I said at the time - the right club went up, the right team didn't

Sunderland have predictably gone for it

We'd have been a stain on the league yet again

 

[Frank the tank]

No one knows
Our owners might have pumped similar amounts of dosh into the coffers as Sunderland have

Pure speculation on every one's part.

 

[Revolution]

Parallel universe time.

If Burrows goal vs Sunderland hadn't been chalked off by a dodgy VAR decision, we'd be in the Premier League this season with our new owners for the very first time.
Chances are we'd have kept Souza and Anel (not sure they're Prem quality tbh) and signed better than we did, but how much better?

So overall how do you think we'd be doing in the Prem? Better than last time under the Prince? Better than the last 2 seasons under the prince? As good as 19/20? Or worse than ever?

The whole premise of your post is flawed.

There is no point in imagining what might have been if we’d won the playoffs.

We do not win playoffs.

 

[Barry Butlin]

I don’t we’d have gone for it. I think we’d have been relegated but at least we’d have had the parachute payments…once again!!

 

[Kenilworth]

I don’t we’d have gone for it. I think we’d have been relegated but at least we’d have had the parachute payments…once again!!

And getting Dore sorted with a Cat 1 Acad.

 

[Shadota]

We would likely have invested a few quid into the squad, but we wouldn't have even come close to what Sunderland have spent.

We'd have been relegated again, just probably with a hair more dignity than the last 2 times we went down from the PL. Though that is not a high bar to reach.

 

[54yrblade]

We didn't deserve to go up.

Glad we didn't. It may have papered over the sh*tshow cracks that were then, and are now, so glaringly obvious.

The sooner this bottoms out, the better.

 

[103SecondsOfMagic]

A post-post match analysis would have revealed one of the Sheffield players intended to foul Enzo in the build up to our winning goal, along with the switched off goal line technology failing to register our goal, allowing Sunderland's crop of third party influenced players to be awarded promotion instead of us because otherwise it wouldn't be fair on their fans.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Only toast ?

Well, a cuppa would be nice too I spose but I don't want to push it.

 

[Blades1971]

As I said at the time - the right club went up, the right team didn't

Sunderland have predictably gone for it

We'd have been a stain on the league yet again

Going for it is fine, if it works. If going for it doesn't work. Think Sheffield Wednesday

 

[S64 Blade]

I’d like to be optimistic but I can’t see how we’d been on any more than a handful of points. I guess it’s hard to fully gauge as it may have triggered an increase in investment from the new owners, but based on what we know and have seen so far, I can’t see it.

 

[Rodley]

No one knows
Our owners might have pumped similar amounts of dosh into the coffers as Sunderland have

Pure speculation on every one's part.

Never waste a chance to moan.

 

[KMC-1889]

We were miles off Leeds and Burnley so we’d end up below wherever they finish.

 

[Working Class Hero]

We were miles off Leeds and Burnley so we’d end up below wherever they finish.

Sunderland we're even more miles behind, and they're above both.

Not that you're wrong.

 

[Frank the tank]

We didn't deserve to go up.

Glad we didn't. It may have papered over the sh*tshow cracks that were then, and are now, so glaringly obvious.

The sooner this bottoms out, the better.

Absolutely pathetic mate

 

[nopigfansintown]

Absolutely pathetic mate

He has Wilder derangement syndrome. We were actually the best side in the play offs not that it counts for anything. Sunderland were extremely fortunate in both ties.

 

[Snowflake]

Well, a cuppa would be nice too I spose but I don't want to push it.

Perhaps your thoughts could wander to something other than food ?

 

[TJ blade]

We didn't deserve to go up.

Glad we didn't. It may have papered over the sh*tshow cracks that were then, and are now, so glaringly obvious.

The sooner this bottoms out, the better.

Were does it bottom out mate, that's the question?