Is the gap greeting wider

[FriethBlade]

Between the Championship and League One?

Preston, Mk Dons and Bristol City are the bottom three and they were easily the best 3 sides in league one last season. We look short of quality in many areas in div one so if we manage to go there will have to be a major overhaul to compete next season.

 

[Small Mendonca]

Probably due to the amount of money spent in the Championship nowadays. The Championship has almost become the Premiership Division 2, with the Premiership being Premiership Division 1.

 

[Harry's Game]

Yes.

 

[Whiston Blade]

I've said all along we got relegate right at the wrong time. Don't get me wrong, there is no good time to get relegated but with TV money playing a big part in even Championship football now, we've missed that boat. If we get promoted then we must spend more than we have done under the McCabe/HRH era or face another relegation.

 

[Blade58]

Yes, gap getting wider, but no point worrying about until such times as we join them

One step at a time Glasshopper

 

[PeteBlade]

Yes.

Yes.

 

[Whiston Blade]

Yes.

Yes

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Yes

Maybe.

 

[Superblades]

It is getting wider but MK battered Derby today, they didn't take their chances.

What we need to do is strengthen during this season. Get players in (which NA is trying to do) who are proven at that level. That way it beds them in and is better than say buying 6/7 players in the summer and hoping they hit the ground running as that would cost us imo.

 

[zablade]

Yes

Yes


Or possibly No.

 

[judge]

Between the Championship and League One?

Preston, Mk Dons and Bristol City are the bottom three and they were easily the best 3 sides in league one last season. We look short of quality in many areas in div one so if we manage to go there will have to be a major overhaul to compete next season.

Ask blade too long he said they would all fly in the championship and that last years league one was a very high standard

 

[Toronto Blade]

Still very early in the season to predict.

 

[FATTYFOULKE]

It probably has but we shouldn't worry too much.

We have a manager who knows what he's doing and also what's needed in the Championship. He's been there and not only done it but done it with style.

We are a decent sized club and in the Championship will be one of the bigger ones. Attracting good players won't be a problem as long as the funding is there.

We'd have momentum behind us and the players would have on its day one of the most vociferous crowds in the country behind them.

We're well capable of staying up and moving on from there.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

One of the most vociferous crowds in the country, FF?
Where? When? Like a mortuary today down there.

 

[axel smeets]

We'd need to spend £5m minimum after promotion.

 

[The_Green_Man]

We need to get promoted before the prince even thinks about giving us a budget.

 

[sitwell]

If you look back when everyone was hammering Clough last season some of us said that Grayson and Cotterill were purely there for promotion and had no depth or plan for the future. Although they both did a job last season they will be out of work before the end of this.

 

[blade too long]

we are joint 4th 3 points off an automatic spot with only 37 games to go
Adams and Done and Brayford to return , bringing in more quality

yes we will piss it

Im not a misewrable negative manic depressive like some of our so called fans

some are so short sighted they cant see the bigger picture

 

[axel smeets]

Correct, but it would be irrelevant to the thread if we weren't promoted, as we are talking about Championship football. The last time I checked, United were in League One.

 

[SUFC Handsworth]

Good question. Since we've been in this cesspit of a division the teams that have gone up and done nowt once in the Championship (and I'm thinking pigs, Huddersfield, Charlton, Donny, Yeovil, Rotherham and now Preston and Bristol) were the ones full of agricultural third division players that were good enough to go up but were found wanting in the higher division. Teams with a bit more quality such as Bournemouth, Brentford and Wolves have done better.

If we were to go up I think we'd more than hold our own, as we've proved in the cup runs over the last couple of years we've got the quality players to match and better teams in higher divisions. Our problem is these same players are just getting clubbed in the third division, and with no 'minders' in the team it's still debatable if we'll go up this season. I still maintain if we'd have gone up in '12, '14 or '15 there'd be no gap between us and the better teams in the Championship. Quality wise we're fine, it's the steel part of the game, or lack of it, that worries me in tier 3.

 

[blade too long]

Between the Championship and League One?

Preston, Mk Dons and Bristol City are the bottom three and they were easily the best 3 sides in league one last season. We look short of quality in many areas in div one so if we manage to go there will have to be a major overhaul to compete next season.

again early days , watched mk dons today were very unlucky
but none of the 3 really strengthened and bristol sold one too many

 

[judge]

we are joint 4th 3 points off an automatic spot with only 37 games to go
Adams and Done and Brayford to return , bringing in more quality

yes we will piss it

Im not a misewrable negative manic depressive like some of our so called fans

some are so short sighted they cant see the bigger picture

You wrre saying all this shit last season and we finished fucking nowhere

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

If you look back when everyone was hammering Clough last season some of us said that Grayson and Cotterill were purely there for promotion and had no depth or plan for the future. Although they both did a job last season they will be out of work before the end of this.

Thats because they are league 1 managers . Daft as it seems , they need at manager like Clough , to keep them up. He then would not take them up , or down , but provide championship mediocrity.

UTB

 

[sitwell]

Thats because they are league 1 managers . Daft as it seems , they need at manager like Clough , to keep them up. He then would not take them up , or down , but provide championship mediocrity.

UTB

Doncaster would be a perfect job for him in that case.

 

[Stretch]

Good question. Since we've been in this cesspit of a division the teams that have gone up and done nowt once in the Championship (and I'm thinking pigs, Huddersfield, Charlton, Donny, Yeovil, Rotherham and now Preston and Bristol) were the ones full of agricultural third division players that were good enough to go up but were found wanting in the higher division. Teams with a bit more quality such as Bournemouth, Brentford and Wolves have done better.

If we were to go up I think we'd more than hold our own, as we've proved in the cup runs over the last couple of years we've got the quality players to match and better teams in higher divisions. Our problem is these same players are just getting clubbed in the third division, and with no 'minders' in the team it's still debatable if we'll go up this season. I still maintain if we'd have gone up in '12, '14 or '15 there'd be no gap between us and the better teams in the Championship. Quality wise we're fine, it's the steel part of the game, or lack of it, that worries me in tier 3.

Agreed which is why we need a Hammond type (or 2) to sign asap. There's so many aspects to being successful in football, of course you need skill, flair and quality in a team but that has to be complemented with 2 or 3 players who literally intimidate opponents with their presence.

 

[BushBlade]

Thats because they are league 1 managers . Daft as it seems , they need at manager like Clough , to keep them up. He then would not take them up , or down , but provide championship mediocrity.

UTB

It's a regular pattern with Grayson isn't it. He gets a club promoted from L1, gets the sack. Goes back to L1, gets a club promoted, gets the sack......