Goodbye & Good Riddance to PL2

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We had somewhat of a free shot at it last season and it was great on the whole as we finished well up PL2 (all the PL except "the big 6") because lets face it no team is going to compete with them unless they have a multi billionaire owner that is prepared to chuck big money at them. So I can`t see the point of it really, a club putting as much cash into the team as they can afford (and some more than they can afford) to tread water in PL2, never gonna win owt just get the sky money and finishing place money and spend that the next season on players that MAY keep them mid table trudging along and hoping to get to 38/40 points as quick as possible. How can these teams pay 80 - 100 mill on transfer fees and mega wages and agent fees without the billionaire?, they can`t.
Norwich, got the PL & sky money, got the parachute pay and some income from some transfers, they will probably go back up with more cash than last time but they will still look to avoid relegation season after season, just like Burnley, Palace, West ham, Everton, Wolves, Newcastle et al and how much have these teams spent to tread water.
Nah, Fuck it.
 

i want to see utd in europe in my lifetime, we nearly got there last year, teams who’re similar size to us some have shown its not too difficult

and also look at leicester... one day we could be that once in every 10 year team who bucks the trend. We have to be in the mix to get there though
 
PeterNdlovu081 said:
More cap doffing, parochial nonsense from the Blades faithful.

The Premier League is the only place to be. The Championship is fucking wank.

Only in S2.
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I agree with your first paragraph, but not your second.

I’d love to have a good crack at the premier league for a few years. But I also think the championship is great, if you’re up there competing for promotion.
 
alcoblade said:
I agree with your first paragraph, but not your second.

I’d love to have a good crack at the premier league for a few years. But I also think the championship is great, if you’re up there competing for promotion.
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The Championship is the playground of football clubs who are an irrelevance in English football.

Like Preston, Sheffield Wednesday and Barnsley.

I've seen us play these teams a million times over and it bores me to years.
 
PeterNdlovu081 said:
The Championship is the playground of football clubs who are an irrelevance in English football.

Like Preston, Sheffield Wednesday and Barnsley.

I've seen us play these teams a million times over and it bores me to years.
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Agreed. However, two thirds of the premier league are also an irrelevance.

You’re either propping up the premier league, or making up the numbers in it.
 
alcoblade said:
I agree with your first paragraph, but not your second.

I’d love to have a good crack at the premier league for a few years. But I also think the championship is great, if you’re up there competing for promotion.
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That’s the point tho.. competing for promotion because being Premier League is what we want. Well, it was when we were being promoted and when we managed to win some games.

But now? Nah, let’s get fucking humiliated, relegated because it’s what we wanted along. Good old Blades, yo-up club is our ambition.
 
HillmortonBlade said:
That’s the point tho.. competing for promotion because being Premier League is what we want. Well, it was when we were being promoted and when we managed to win some games.

But now? Nah, let’s get fucking humiliated, relegated because it’s what we wanted along. Good old Blades, yo-up club is our ambition.
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Well, I for one don’t want to get relegated. I just don’t fear life in the championship.

I like the premier league for the opportunity to play new teams. For a short while, the media exposure was flattering too. But I’ve loved life up and down the football leagues, and I will do again.
 
This is how it works. Fans want to see the team win every week. If we do that in the championship, we get promoted. There is no option to stay in the championship.
Unless we get the equivalent of Abramovich owning us, it’s almost impossible that we’ll win the PL. It’s pretty unlikely we’ll make top six.

We've been a yo-yo club since 1934. As the game has become more competitive and success has become more related to money, it’s become increasingly difficult to even be a yo-yo club.
Clubs like Man U and Liverpool have had fifty odd years of televised success, building up huge global fan bases, earning huge amounts of income. In that period we’ve won fuck all. The idea that we could get promoted and then compete regularly with the big clubs just doesn’t bear any resemblance to reality, it’s going to take either a rich owner who’s prepared to lose a lot of money, or a lot of hard work and building over a number of years, or a once in a generation fluke.

I didn’t expect us to be this shit, I didn’t expect us to lose every fucking game but I did expect a struggle. I’ve accepted we’re down. But next season I expect us to try to get promoted again. And this time try to stay up for more than two seasons. If your expectations are higher than that, they’re not realistic. So you’ll be disappointed. And don’t talk about ambition, ambition is about what one can achieve personally, not what you think others should be achieving on your behalf when you’re unable to influence what the others do.
 
The mid to bottom of the PL is pointless drivel
 

I wonder what made Leicester and Wolves so special 🤔 because after the top 6-7 clubs there the next richest with Everton but Everton are already established
 
Loada bollox

What price on prestige, bragging rights, income, exposure etc

Every team aims to finish as high as possible, anything less is a defeatist attitude, which in competitive sport is unacceptable

Be like realising you can’t pull a super model, so settling for fat Karen with 3 teeth who you see dragging her 4 offspring back from Farm Foods on giro day
 
The most underachieving middle sized club in England over the last 50 or 60 years.

Very few of us started supporting this club due to success or stature.

However, the badge of honour some like to wear is a tad annoying IMHO.

40 years I've followed this club and hopefully I've got another two or three decades. I don't think it's too much to hope or even expect that one day in the sun in that time.

The odd top flight season every 10 or 15 years and Cup semi every so often isn't anything to crow about in a history.
 
Kop Cat said:
We had somewhat of a free shot at it last season and it was great on the whole as we finished well up PL2 (all the PL except "the big 6") because lets face it no team is going to compete with them unless they have a multi billionaire owner that is prepared to chuck big money at them. So I can`t see the point of it really, a club putting as much cash into the team as they can afford (and some more than they can afford) to tread water in PL2, never gonna win owt just get the sky money and finishing place money and spend that the next season on players that MAY keep them mid table trudging along and hoping to get to 38/40 points as quick as possible. How can these teams pay 80 - 100 mill on transfer fees and mega wages and agent fees without the billionaire?, they can`t.
Norwich, got the PL & sky money, got the parachute pay and some income from some transfers, they will probably go back up with more cash than last time but they will still look to avoid relegation season after season, just like Burnley, Palace, West ham, Everton, Wolves, Newcastle et al and how much have these teams spent to tread water.
Nah, Fuck it.
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At last someone who also thinks the Premier league is overhyped crap, designed for the big 6 and arm chair fans. For actual game going fans for teams such as us, it's rubbish.
Not enough games, kick off times and days to suit TV. Cheating diving players, VAR, the list goes on
 
You can wish for sustained success Kev, but it aint gonna happen unless you have billionaire backers as the post says.
As for competetive sport well it just isnt is it? Before a ball is kicked there are only 4 or 5 teams that would win the league
 
1973Blade said:
I seem to remember that we loved the Premier League last season when we were doing well in it!
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Very true. I think I’d love it for as long as we didn’t become part of the furniture, and expect to be there.

I was stunned by visits to the likes of Man City. Once you become comfortable, the mentality of the fans shifts enormously. Of course, most of the modern football world would kill for what they have.

To me, clubs like that have been ruined.
 
Kev Gee said:
Only in S2 can the clubs fans wish that we would be better off scuffling around in the lower leagues.

Is it too much to wish for that we could have some sustained success?

It's time for us to stop being happy with mediocre.

Words fail me sometimes.
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1973Blade said:
I seem to remember that we loved the Premier League last season when we were doing well in it!
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not quite, some of us were saying that it was full of cheats & con artists {players-refs) and VAR had ruined it. But if you want to beat the best (richest) you have to play them.
 
It's not so many years ago that we took over the entire Leicester stadium and the entire city of Leicester.

Leicester previously to the last few years were a nice, smallish football club that occasionally had a decent season or two. Certainly the smaller of the three East Midlands clubs.

They'd had a better time than we'd ever had granted. That goes without saying. Who hasn't ?

But now there on a different level entirely.
Possible for them, but obviously impossible for us.
 
Its been a fantastic journey we've been on and im glad we made it to the premier league - for me I want to stay here for good and not go back to where we once was.

Only a few seasons ago we was struggling under Nigel Adkins in league one playing teams that are now very much non-league, signing players that were not even league ome standard.

Today we are in the best league in the world, spending money i thought id never see us pay, playing quality teams, watching world class players!

Ive had to endure watching United in the early 80's and early 2010's, did I enjoy it? Not even slightly!

Yeah we're struggling this season but the wealth, quality and benefits the premier league brings far outweighs the pittance and general low quality the other leagues bring.

Id rather goto Fiji and drive a Ferrari than goto Butlins and drive a Lada Riva.... each to their own I guess.
 

Kev Gee said:
Only in S2 can the clubs fans wish that we would be better off scuffling around in the lower leagues.

Is it too much to wish for that we could have some sustained success?

It's time for us to stop being happy with mediocre.

Words fail me sometimes.
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I’d like to think people don’t actually think like this and it’s just their denial/ coping mechanism of the inevitable.

You never know though.
 
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