Is the Championship now more interesting than the Premiership

[WigglyBlade]

I've been looking at the fixtures this morning and it crossed my mind that there's a hell of a lot of big teams and big games in the Championship now and I actually think it's a far more interesting league than the Premiership at the minute.

Just look at some of the big teams now in our league:

Sheffield United (obviously)
Villa
Sunderland
Birmingham
Forest
Derby
Leeds
Wolves
Norwich...etc

Plus there's some absolutely massive derbies:

Sheffield derby
Villa v Birmingham
Derby v Forest
Norwich v Ipswich
Blades v Leeds
Blades v Barnsley

I'd probably choose to watch any of the above derbies over, say Liverpool v Everton.

Anyway, my point is, I honestly think that the Championship is now a far more interesting league than the Premiership. Who's with me?

 

[Pierre's PC]

You had me at hello

 

[SteveBlade]

Yes.

The Championship is a much better league.

 

[Grecian2000]

Whatever Division we are in is the ONLY one that interests me at all.
However, I would say it has a fairly "open" feel about it just looking at the fixtures. Not an obvious runaway winner for me.
So yes Wiggler, I'm with you.

 

[Sudley]

Too the mainstream media the premiership is the be all and end all. However, in my opinion the following fixtures for example:

Blades v pigs
Sunderland v middlesborough
Leeds v Villa

Etc etc

Are a much better attraction than:

Huddersfield v Bournemouth
Swansea v Brighton
Stoke v Watford

Etc etc

 

[LenTednTony]

Yes Wiggly, you are bang on!

 

[SwissBlade]

yes

 

[coaxingstar71]

Yes, because we're in it!

The Premier League will be far more interesting when we're in it too.

 

[TonyAgana]

Too the mainstream media the premiership is the be all and end all. However, in my opinion the following fixtures for example:

Blades v pigs
Sunderland v middlesborough
Leeds v Villa

Etc etc

Are a much better attraction than:

Huddersfield v Bournemouth
Swansea v Brighton
Stoke v Watford

Etc etc

Well yeah, but you've picked the best of Champ and the worst of Prem there.

Burton Albion Vs Brentford? Barnsley Vs Bristol City?

 

[Bath Blade]

Too the mainstream media the premiership is the be all and end all. However, in my opinion the following fixtures for example:

Blades v pigs
Sunderland v middlesborough
Leeds v Villa

Etc etc

Are a much better attraction than:

Huddersfield v Bournemouth
Swansea v Brighton
Stoke v Watford

Etc etc

Not disagreeing, but you have cherry-picked three of the best Championship fixtures against three of the worst Premier League fixtures, hardly a fair comparison!

 

[BushBlade]

Depends what interests you. I quite like watching overpaid foreign mercenaries because they're usually technically very good and I like watching good players playing good football.

 

[gavtheblade]

Can't wait.

 

[larkymasher]

Stoke v Anyone not worth watching
Watford v Anyone not worth watching
Burnley v Anyone not worth watching
WBA v Anyone not worth watching
Udders v Anyone not worth watching
Swansea v Anyone not worth watching
Bournemouth v Anyone not worth watching
West Ham v Anyone not worth watching
Crystal Palace v Anyone not worth watching
Brighton v Anyone not worth watching

In other words i agree 100% with you.

 

[Gimli]

Yes.

 

['Doc' Pace my hero]

Of course it is,the only purpose of the premiership is so that the top 6 'elite' teams have someone different to play rather than each other 6 times a year !! It is actually boring as f*** and full of it's own self importance,that's why the 'pigs' would feel at home there.

 

[Bladey McBladeface]

From a competitive point of view and the uncertainty of outcome, the Championship is more interesting.

I still want to be in the Premier League though.

 

[PokerBlade]

Lower standard of football but a much more even-handed competition. Even though lotteries are sometimes won, the idea of someone being a 5000/1 underdog to win the Championship is beyond belief. And with the play-offs, everybody in the league starts with the knowledge that a bit of luck, a couple of star performers, and the season can be something special. In the Premiership, the idea of going up and finishing in the top six is a pipe dream.

But let's be fair, the excitement of the Championship comes from the prize of promotion. It's sport. And in sport everybody dreams of being the best.

 

[MightyBlades]

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The Premier League bores me to tears, if I'm being honest.

Too sanitized, too awash with silly money, too dominated by the same old teams each and every season, too focused on commercial this that and the other.

Fuck the Premier League and fuck Sky TV.

If I'm being honest, I hope that 5, or 6 of our supposed football giants do split away from the rest of English football, and go and join a European Super League, together with the likes of Barcelona and Bayern Munich. That way they can all wank each other off every fortnight, and proclaim how massive they all are. In the meantime, English football can get back to being the game of the ordinary working man, who can afford to take his kids to matches on a Saturday afternoon. If something doesn't change drastically, then people are soon going to be looking at paying £100 each to see a Premier League game.

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[snootyfenooty]

You've probably got 6 top clubs in the Prem, the rest are wank. Man U, Citeh, Spurs, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool are the top 6, and even out of these Chelsea and Citeh are there purely because of the money and are lacking in tradition (and class). So that leaves 4 clubs who really count as "big" and who I would enjoy watching.

The fringe clubs who you would expect to see in the Prem are the likes of Wolves, Villa, Leeds, Forest, Derby, Brum, Us, Pigs, Boro, QPR, Sunderland, Norwich and are more interesting opponents as they have tradition, the fan base and the stadiums to match.

I'm not saying these clubs have a divine right to be in the top flight, it's just that outside of the top 6 Prem clubs, I'd rather be watching us play the likes of these on a regular basis rather than the fodder who make up the Premiership now. Sure, I'd like us to be in the Prem, but I'd like a few of those mentioned to be there as well to make it more interesting than it is presently.

 

[bromtom]

Overall yeah, probably, but the standard is lower. As a neutral until we get there, I'd rather watch the Premier League than the Championship (apart from United). It can be boring as all balls though, but so can any football, international or domestic, but there's more chance of a good game at random in the PL because of the quality there.

The Championship definitely feels more like a competitor product to the Premier League now though, rather than just the league below, lots of big name teams and big transfers.

 

[BushBlade]

Overall yeah, probably, but the standard is lower. As a neutral until we get there, I'd rather watch the Premier League than the Championship (apart from United). It can be boring as all balls though, but so can any football, international or domestic, but there's more chance of a good game at random in the PL because of the quality there.

The Championship definitely feels more like a competitor product to the Premier League now though, rather than just the league below, lots of big name teams and big transfers.

And that's what the media likes to ignore. With all its hype and deep voiced presenters telling us we're going to see the most exciting live entertainment since the world was invented AND IT'S LIVE when in reality a lot of games are a bit crap. And some are a bit crap with some good bits. And sometimes, just occasionally, they're fantastic and you can't take your eyes off the game. But not all of them.

If you listed all the games you'd watched in a season on Sky, graded them from 'fuck, turn this shit off' through 'meh' to 'close to sex' you'd probably think that you're not getting value for money.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

The prem is very much 2 leagues within a league. The top 8 and 12 also fans. The Championship is much more competitive with about 20 clubs thinking they have a chance of getting promoted.
As a Blade It's just great to be to rubbing shoulders with our natural peers, rivals and old foes again.

 

[Razor1967]

Yes.

The Championship is a much better league.

It's like La Liga

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Yes, much more interesting.

The most interesting thing that happened for the Premier League was Leicester's win. That was the best thing that happened for years. The rest is largely just an over paid, over hyped circus which fails to develop British talent.

 

[YES Blade]

Yes, much more interesting.

The most interesting thing that happened for the Premier League was Leicester's win. That was the best thing that happened for years. The rest is largely just an over paid, over hyped circus which fails to develop British talent.

I must have dreamed that England Under 20 World Cup win.

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

I must have dreamed that England Under 20 World Cup win.

I meant, full-age players. Do the kids play week in week out in the top flight? Largely not.

Of those full-age players that do, are Henderson, Smalling, Jones, Walcott etc good enough? No.

 

[originaltrueblade]

The championship is a better league problem with the premier league is that most games are boring and predictable

 

[YES Blade]

I meant, full-age players. Do the kids play week in week out in the top flight? Largely not.

Of those full-age players that do, are Henderson, Smalling, Jones, Walcott etc good enough? No.

You've hardly listed our best players have you?

Kane, Alli, Dier, Cahill, Walker, Rose and Sterling are they not good enough either?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The Championship is more interesting this season, just as League 1 was more interesting last season.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

The predictable league is The Premier League.............it has become boring,i can tell you now and you could too who will win it and who the top six will be.

The Un Predictable league is The Championship..........it is exciting,you cannot predict who will win it nor can you say who the top six will be.