To late to "go for it" now. We have got to play with the squad we have. The time to decide to "go for it" was before the window closed. Good as Ulloa is, he is unlikely to provide the fire power we need as his job has got harder with his growing reputation. It really grates to think that...
I was working on the basis of Cardiff and Hull taking the automatic spots, and Watford being so much better than us at The AMEX that they will probably stuff us next time as well, but if we had a bit of luck in the final, we may scrape it.
I think the imprtant thing is not to overextend yourself when you go up, so that the effects of relegation are managed.
The other major factor is the MASSIVE amount of extra money involved from next year as well. Without premiership parachute payments, promotion will become nearly impossible...
Sorry, yes it is. Thank you for pointing it out. My point is that we should aim for promotion, even if we go back down, because the money will help us grow stronger. Anyone who thinks we should wait to go up until we have a team capable of staying up is frankly deluded. TB is not a Russian or...
That should be our aim anyway. We cannot expect TB's money to pay for a Premiership team. Getting promotion, then parachute payments if we go down, is the way forward. Even if we bounce a few times before we are strong enough to make it stick.
No, I will not be happy if we manage to scrape into the Playoffs.
As we are subjected to such boring negative football most weeks, the least we should be given is promotion as a sweetener. If we don't get promotion, we could have been entertained instead. Where are Southampton now? Yes, that...