I realise the odds of bouncing straight back are long, the Championship is very competitive. I wouldn’t be hung up on that one jot. I would just hope that we’re competive and have a genuine chance of a win in all 46 games.
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[Albion] Is relegation that bad a thing
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I realise the odds of bouncing straight back are long, the Championship is very competitive. I wouldn’t be hung up on that one jot. I would just hope that we’re competive and have a genuine chance of a win in all 46 games.
The-Libertine
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- May 2, 2006
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We may have to play Portsmouth again. That’s how bad being relegated might be.
withdeanwombat
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What a dull question.
Relegation?
No thank you.
Relegation?
No thank you.
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Very this and more this.
stewart_weir
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- Mar 19, 2017
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Interesting Telegraph observations..
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/04/19/sleepwalking-relegation-history-suggests-brighton-big-trouble/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/04/19/sleepwalking-relegation-history-suggests-brighton-big-trouble/
Some good analogies and points made by the writer. But we know the standard of our players far better than him. That mid table position was false, we had gained some unlikely wins when completely outplayed, with the chronic lack of pace/creativity/goals finally coming to the fore. We’ve been found out.
Perhaps CP and Newcastle were too in the seasons mentioned.
dejavuatbtn
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Back in 2016 he as questioned
Is the club ‘Premier League ready’ in the event that we are promoted?
Largely, yes, but we would still have a lot of work to do to satisfy all the requirements set by The Premier League. This involves upgrading a whole list of areas, including media facilities and our floodlights, to name just two items from a long list that changes, and becomes more demanding in the pursuit of even higher standards and better facilities, season after season!
No mention of the team in this response but isn’t it a given that being ready to compete is a prerequisite? Maybe that was the problem - being focussed on having everything premier league ready except for the team.
um bongo molongo
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Exactly how I feel. Just a shame the economics in football these days make being in the top division almost imperative
nwgull
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Management of all the non playing stuff is literally Barber’s job though. I think it’s best that we leave him to do what he’s good at (although he does have a coaching badge apparently) and let the coaching and recruitment staff concentrate on the team.
If every season has to be angsty negative football trying to get a big pay day by finishing fourth bottom I’ll probably put up with about three more seasons before trying something more interesting, like crocheting. Shit or get off the pot. 46 interesting games a season in the Championship. In the Premier League, not so much
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Not blaming PB for our PL recruiting, but the club have said before that recruitment decisions are exclusively discussed and made by the quartet of TB/PB/CH/PW.
nwgull
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Your right; Barber does have an input into the finances and contracts of the transfers. However, when asked whether or not the club is Premier League ready before we’ve been promoted, you can hardly expect him to say that the players currently trying to achieve that promotion will need to be replaced.
Besides, we were a Premier League ready team. 40 points,15th place and mathematically safe with 2 games to go is a very respectable first season.
Blue Valkyrie
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It was a very good season, happy and ever distant memories. Second lowest budget, but achieved 15th, deservedly staying up.
But has gone awry since, possibly because:
a) With more match exposure, after say 16 months in the PL, opposition coaches and their analytics teams have well and truly worked out our limitations and weaknesses.
b) A failure to invest in the first team in pace, quality in ACM and pace up front. Rather than a numbers game of players for the future and to cover injuries.
Would love TB to have a PL chance this summer in putting that right.
wigman
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We've survived worse, however I believe we were to go down it could take a few years to recover.
Tooting Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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After feeling incredibly pissed off for weeks, culminating in Tuesday night, I have now managed to rationalise things in my own mind to prepare for relegation.
It hasn't been enjoyable since December. I don't want to watch another season of both negative, poor displays and bad results.
Even if we fluked staying up because Cardiff are even worse, we would definitely go down next season after another season of the same.
So with the team in its current state I'd rather be in the Championship, which is also a great league, and see some more positive football because we are less scared of the opposition, and get some wins.
It hasn't been enjoyable since December. I don't want to watch another season of both negative, poor displays and bad results.
Even if we fluked staying up because Cardiff are even worse, we would definitely go down next season after another season of the same.
So with the team in its current state I'd rather be in the Championship, which is also a great league, and see some more positive football because we are less scared of the opposition, and get some wins.