I will miss the Championship. It’s been a great competition this season and nobody predicted who would come first and second. Most of the teams fancied by the pundits have not qualified for the playoffs. Some good well supported “proper” football clubs involved and plenty of good players to watch. Most of the clubs in there can beat any of the others in there on a particular day. Compare that with the PL. Despite the Leicester season (which will never happen again) there are only a max of 6 clubs who can win it. The bottom 6 clubs are simply cannon fodder for the big boys. There are “massive” clubs in there like Huddersfield, Bournemouth, Burnley, Watford who get only 12,000, up to 24,000 crowds. Apart from the top six the one target for all the other clubs is simply to stay in the PL. They know they can’t win it. They might have a decent Cup run but wouldn’t want that to jeopardise them staying in the PL so wouldn’t want key players getting injured. This season the bottom 2 clubs were relegated well before the end of the season and Cardiff were pretty much down as well so not exactly exciting. (OK the top 2 is exciting this season but that’s a rarity).
Anyway despite that I can’t wait for us to have a go in it. At least we are a proper club with good support and a definite step up from Huddersfield and Fulham. Let’s hope we can become established.