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I had visions of the players all wearing Baldocks number 2 shirt to collect the trophy.
Mate, your team are miles away from being good enough to stay up. I was worried about our team going up and totalling a record low points total, and that’s a team who finished comfortably above you. It’s going to be a tough watch for you next season, but you’ll likely be competitive in the Championship the season after.
The team that starts in August will most likely look very different to the one that finished on Saturday, as I've already stated I live in the present so I'm happy to wait and see, predicting the future in football is not my style, it's basically the super six, a total lottery.
You'll come straight back down but be stronger the season after for it. The gulf is massive irrespective of if you throw money at it or not. Personally I've no ill will towards Sunderland at all and wish you all the best but VAR, getting dry bummed every week and ridicule on MOTD along with ridiculous ko times and fewer Saturday games will piss you off eventually. Good luck.
It’s not a total lottery to predict promoted teams will struggle in the Premier League, you clearly have no idea of the gulf between the divisions. Your current team don’t have any players that will cause problems for those in the Premier League and you’ll be buying players that other teams in the division don’t deem good enough for them. You’ll be cannon fodder.
Obviously I am delighted we've done it, but I don't even know myself if I'm looking forward to it or not, as already previously stated, if it's straight back down the only positive is the para payments.
I'll bookmark your post and get back to it next season, you were one of the favourites to go back up automatically, then you were favourites to go up in the playoffs. Neither happened, it's a funny old game as they say.
I won’t hear from you as you’ll have nothing to gloat about, you’ll be the Southampton of this season. They somehow managed to get promoted via the playoffs last season, after looking pretty average. Finished this season on 12 points. Enjoy the ride.
The only way you won't hear from me is if you deploy the ignore function upon me.
That's the nub of it. My Ipswich supporting brother-in-law said it took him about 2 months before he hated this season. He knew from our chats that they would be like the rogue cousin at the family wedding, not wanted but had to be invited and sat at a table in the back corner. Day 1 stuffed by Liverpool and first hand experience of the constant conscious/subconscious* bias of the officials and VAR in favour of the permanent 17 residents! [*delete depending on your own view]
I actually hope you do well next season, prove that a promoted team without the previous advantage of parachute payments can go up and give a good account of themselves like we did a few years ago. I hope Leeds and Burnley fester and die but you lot seem ok.
Yeah I agree to a degree, most of our last period was a battle against the drop, however, we had some great times completing the great escape year after year, especially the six in a row period v the skunks. We were unfortunate in the event that people Ellis Short had hired, were absoulte bluffers, and no more money after that.
Hundred percent with you on the last paragraph, I'll pass on the thoughts come the time, no probs whatsoever. Hope yous make it next year, sincerely.You should always go up with a sense of optimism but seriously mate, we were the better team Saturday and we're pretty average to be honest. We have our moments, our first goal being a prime example but the way we ran straight through you was scary. Premier League teams, even the poor ones have bags of pace and their fitness is on a different level and they'll do that for fun.
When we went up with the overlapping centre halves we were organised, had a new style and we were a rock solid group of tried and tested professionals playing a style they were very comfortable with. The next season was a different story, losing our centre half killed our game plan but the big one was last season. In just a couple of years our second division (Championship) tryers were miles off. Teams one touched it past us and they pretty much scored at will. That's going to happen to you. The last six promoted clubs had it happen and looking at Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland there's nothing to suggest that any of them will buck that trend. Not fast enough, not fit enough, not cute enough and look out for the officials and the VAR, you saw how they got the one big decision wrong Saturday.
Sorry for pissing on your parade but it's a horrible game now. Money first, armchair followers second, real fans and football are way down the list. I can't say good luck as I wouldn't mean it. I'm old, I'm old school and I'm bitter. Be interesting what you think two months in though.
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You should always go up with a sense of optimism but seriously mate, we were the better team Saturday and we're pretty average to be honest. We have our moments, our first goal being a prime example but the way we ran straight through you was scary. Premier League teams, even the poor ones have bags of pace and their fitness is on a different level and they'll do that for fun.
When we went up with the overlapping centre halves we were organised, had a new style and we were a rock solid group of tried and tested professionals playing a style they were very comfortable with. The next season was a different story, losing our centre half killed our game plan but the big one was last season. In just a couple of years our second division (Championship) tryers were miles off. Teams one touched it past us and they pretty much scored at will. That's going to happen to you. The last six promoted clubs had it happen and looking at Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland there's nothing to suggest that any of them will buck that trend. Not fast enough, not fit enough, not cute enough and look out for the officials and the VAR, you saw how they got the one big decision wrong Saturday.
Sorry for pissing on your parade but it's a horrible game now. Money first, armchair followers second, real fans and football are way down the list. I can't say good luck as I wouldn't mean it. I'm old, I'm old school and I'm bitter. Be interesting what you think two months in though.
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I said before the final if we go to extra time Sunderland will win but we’d gone on 70 minsYou should always go up with a sense of optimism but seriously mate, we were the better team Saturday and we're pretty average to be honest. We have our moments, our first goal being a prime example but the way we ran straight through you was scary. Premier League teams, even the poor ones have bags of pace and their fitness is on a different level and they'll do that for fun.
When we went up with the overlapping centre halves we were organised, had a new style and we were a rock solid group of tried and tested professionals playing a style they were very comfortable with. The next season was a different story, losing our centre half killed our game plan but the big one was last season. In just a couple of years our second division (Championship) tryers were miles off. Teams one touched it past us and they pretty much scored at will. That's going to happen to you. The last six promoted clubs had it happen and looking at Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland there's nothing to suggest that any of them will buck that trend. Not fast enough, not fit enough, not cute enough and look out for the officials and the VAR, you saw how they got the one big decision wrong Saturday.
Sorry for pissing on your parade but it's a horrible game now. Money first, armchair followers second, real fans and football are way down the list. I can't say good luck as I wouldn't mean it. I'm old, I'm old school and I'm bitter. Be interesting what you think two months in though.
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Congratulations lad, but when the inevitable happens, you’ll also have that PP target on your back.
I think we've recruited smartly TBF, admittedly there's some that have not cut it, Speakmans (DOF) done a fine job IMO. I can't really see the strategy changing, obvs will have to spend more though, just got to wait and see what happens.
I genuinely hope your ownership can cut the mustard, as any indecision at boardroom level would be catastrophic for your first season back in the big time. When we last got promoted our previous owner (the poorest prince in Saudi) shit himself and wanted out. The half hearted way he funded the team for a return to the Prem and the awful season that followed has had profound effect on many Blades fans to this day.
Aye there's been some bad bad owners of clubs, even when they're supposedly scrutinised.
would rather karma help us out rather than fuck villa overI didn't go to any of the Premier League games last season so this was my reminder of VAR as a fan in the ground. Almost 2 mins celebrating like an idiot believing this was the year for the old fella next to me saying it's gone to VAR for offside it was the biggest turn of emotion.
Fully appreciate thst we all knew before a ball was kicked that VAR was in play but VAR isn't for the fans in the ground it's for tv watchers it's FIFA on a football pitch. The biggest reason we go to watch football is to see a goal celebrate a goal. Can't do that with VAR you just look a complete idiot.
Flip side what Villa would have given for VAR yesterday.. think that's karma .. my waych just stopped working
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