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[Football] The race to become cannon fodder
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Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Norwich - Deserve to get promoted, they've been the most consistently good team in the Championship. If they've been doing their off-field job properly this means they should have been planning for Prem football since Christmas, and if they can wrap up automatic promotion swiftly they'll steal a couple of weeks march on other sides re their transfer business. That said, they are Norwich - a yo-yo club. I don't see them as a basket case like Fulham or Hudds but they'll undoubtably be in the mix for the drop next season.
Sheff Utd - They're over-achieving and their team is no better than, say, the Huddersfield side that won promotion and has struggled ever since. If they come up they'll be favourites for the drop.
Leeds - They've missed Kemar Roofe over the last few weeks but he's fit again now for their run-in. I think they'll pip the Blades for 2nd spot. I think they have a great chance of Prem survival - they'll have Bielsa plus a packed Elland Road.
I fancy Villa might pip the Blades in the play-off final.
What this means for the Albion is the sooner we pick up the 4 points required for survival the sooner we can start going our summer transfer business and the better chance we'll have of survival in 2019/20.
Sheff Utd - They're over-achieving and their team is no better than, say, the Huddersfield side that won promotion and has struggled ever since. If they come up they'll be favourites for the drop.
Leeds - They've missed Kemar Roofe over the last few weeks but he's fit again now for their run-in. I think they'll pip the Blades for 2nd spot. I think they have a great chance of Prem survival - they'll have Bielsa plus a packed Elland Road.
I fancy Villa might pip the Blades in the play-off final.
What this means for the Albion is the sooner we pick up the 4 points required for survival the sooner we can start going our summer transfer business and the better chance we'll have of survival in 2019/20.
This. I have no interest in seeing Norwich back in the PL. I think they're pretty much up though unfortunately.
SouthCoastOwl
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Do not want the pigs going up automatically. Ideal situation from my POV is that they lose the playoff final in "unlucky circumstances".
blue-shifted
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You've got me totally wrong. Not moaning about this season, I'm loving supporting Albion at the moment. I'm making a point that we (club, manager and supporters) shouldn't continually set low expectations. A couple of years of aiming for 17th is understandable, but there's a few commonly held beliefs I just don't buy .. one is that we can never establish ourselves as a club (like, say Leicester or Wolves) which at the start of a season is highly unlikely to go down.
It would make a nice change going to Elland Road and the ticket costing £30 rather than £40!
I'd like Sheffield United to be in the same league as us next season as it's the only ground in the top two tiers I haven't been too.
Assuming we stay up, I'd quite like Bristol City to win the play-offs. West Brom, Villa, Boro would be a bit meh.
I'd like Sheffield United to be in the same league as us next season as it's the only ground in the top two tiers I haven't been too.
Assuming we stay up, I'd quite like Bristol City to win the play-offs. West Brom, Villa, Boro would be a bit meh.
theboybilly
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I'll go with that as Norwich and Bristol are great ale-drinking away days. Sheff Utd to take the 3rd promotion berth would be lovely. I would much rather see Leeds spiralling down to the West Yorkshire Combination (if there is such a thing)
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Peterborough went down on 55!
Blimey.
I wonder what our largest ever relegated points tally was (over, say, a 46 game season). I wish I could be bothered to find out.
Ah well.
This. Scumbag fans with a huge sense of entitlement - they'll be insufferable if they come up. The ONLY way this would be a good thing is if they then do a Fulham and it all goes massively tits up.
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I also SINCERELY hope that Middlesbrough fall short - their recent dreadful run has delighted me. I think they are probably the last team out of the whole lot that I would like to see promoted. As a club they are dullness personified, its a shit awayday, and their fans are filth. Long may they languish.
Yes, the current state of affairs either side of the playoff line is perfect. As long as Villa don't go all the way.
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Agreed. There is a deep sense of entitlement at that club, they seem to believe that they are "on loan" to the Championship, that they don't really belong there. I enjoyed Fulham stuffing them up in the Playoff final. The financial fallout and subsequent rancour aimed at "Dr" Tony Xia (which led to him stepping down as owner) really was great fun. I do like that #avfc hashtag when it all goes wrong for them.
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
D'oh, yes I meant Burton.
Bolton are indeed stuffed. I've been having a little lurk around their messageboards, very bleak. Staff and players still not being paid, they're nailed on for relegation, administration is looming, the squad will be stripped to the bone. Can quite easily see them crashing straight through L1 next year as well, unless they can attract a very rich buyer who is prepared to swallow up about £50m worth of debt.
Nixonator
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Norwich will be the steady ones like us.
Leeds will spunk a load of money and get circa 1 point for every 5mil. Much rather they were promoted than Villa or even West Brom who will both probably do alright.
Not easy to judge the others.
Leeds will spunk a load of money and get circa 1 point for every 5mil. Much rather they were promoted than Villa or even West Brom who will both probably do alright.
Not easy to judge the others.
drew
Drew
Are we back to the old theory that you must live in the city you play for?
ferring seagull
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- Dec 30, 2010
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Now that would be some play off final !