father_and_son
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Tony has said, survive for 5 years... Then try for more. 3 more seasons like this, then we can be unhappy with 17th
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[Albion] Would a 17th placed finish in the Premier League next year constitute success?
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the right footed denilson
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As been said, if we finish 17th but the general style of level of performance improves then yes, absolutely.
Icy Gull
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Could lose the will to live with another three seasons like the last three months
I confess to missing seeing the Albion as a team that can, on their day, beat anyone in the division.
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Wrong-Direction
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People saying we'll win all these games in the championship, do you not remember the championship!?
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Mr Putdown
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19th? Try 10th on transfer spend for this season.
https://talksport.com/football/400115/premier-league-clubs-spent-most-transfers/
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We've had two 0-0 draws this season.
Typical Palace. DIVES in without reading the thread properly and makes a complete FOOL of himself.
- Jun 27, 2012
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Cautious Hughton ? Amazing . !
Barham's tash
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The golden number is amortisation [fee plus wage
Divided by the number of years of the contract] not just some speculative number plucked out of the air by talk shite.
Which is what happened to Villa and Sunderland - they were both crap in the PL for several seasons, escaping relegation by a whisker, until their luck finally ran out.
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Will make a change from SbtS……..
On three separate occasions I have over heard people saying I hope brighton go down I challenged one of these and the guy said because you have been so boring you deserve to go down, how can you argue that one?
Yep, your right the neutrals dont like us.
drew
Drew
Of course finishing 17th every year isn't success, it just means you're slightly better than 20th, 19th and 18th! Clinging on every year is not success and it's not entertaining. Only chess playing dullards would accept 17th ad infinitum. There has to be progression and I suspect TB will need to see that next year assuming we survive second season syndrome which it looks like we will do by the skin of our teeth.
Who cares?
The league table doesn't have an entrtainment column. If promotion/relegation depended on entertainment, the league system should award points for more than just wins and draws, or winning matches should be about more than goals scored v goals conceded. But it's not, it's about winning, drawing, losing, not entertainment. If we don't go down, it's because we did enough winning and drawing. Entertainment doesn't come into it, you deserve to stay up or go down based on the points you have won, nothing more.
When teams are praised or defended for changing the pitch dimensions, not having ballboys, or not watering the pitch/leaving the grass long, on the basis of 'any advantage you can get within the laws of the game', surely no one can has a right to criticise teams that play a defensive style that stifles your opponents when that is not only within the laws of the game, it is half of the point of football ('scoring more than you concede' has a defensive element as well as an attacking one).
That's how you argue that one.
drew
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Just saying that I have never heard that in over 40 years said about the Albion apart from Palarse and Pompey fans.
Surely I am not the only person to have heard this season
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Even DB has gone off us, albeit a year or so ago
Was talking to Palace fan and ST holder today at the bank (he works behind the counter) who is thoroughly disillusioned with the Premier League and thinks all the fun has gone out of being a fan of a club outside the top six.
I asked if he thought they'd sell Zaha(hahaha) and he was pretty convinced they'd offload him and Wan-Bissaka for £70m in the Summer, then buy four new players with the proceeds in order to simply build a strong mid-table team to stay in the PL, have a bit of a cup run if they're lucky, and.... absolutely nothing else.
That's the best we can hope for, too, along with every other club who currently sits 7th to 20th in the Premier League.
The feeling of being in the Premier League is such a mind-f*ck sometimes.
Agreed, being an old codger who remembers 1979-83 it was similar then, which is why crowds dipped to below 10,000 at the Goldstone for top tier football.
Being in the Premier League is a classic case of 'It's better to travel than to arrive'.
Yes, this old codger remembers it as well.
The only way we can improve the 'arrival' is to invest a few bob!!!, have a manager who can get get the best out of his squad whilst attempting to play something resembling attractive football and have aspiration to improve year on year.
The alternative is to constantly fester around the base, bottom fishing for the occasional points by beating your near rivals...........unfortunately, we haven't managed to do even that this season.
