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Post by C@V on Mar 27, 2008 9:19:24 GMT -1
I really can not see any of them surviving. If you think Derby are having problems can you imagine Stoke City, Bristol City, Hull City or Plymouth in the Prem? It would be lambs to the slaughter!
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Post by jh1980 on Mar 27, 2008 9:27:24 GMT -1
I reckon West Brom could survive.
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Post by Mrs H on Mar 27, 2008 9:30:33 GMT -1
I'm not convinced West Brom could. They weren't good when they came to Hillsboro'. I agree with Cav that out of that lot the 3 that go up will come back down.
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Post by C@V on Mar 27, 2008 9:31:59 GMT -1
I reckon West Brom could survive. Why they are terrible. Do you know at this stage of the season when Reading were top we were already promoted with 92 points and 20 points clear of 3rd place. The top team now have 68 points. The division is very weak. West Brom lost 4-1 at home to Leicester the other day! |
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Post by jh1980 on Mar 27, 2008 9:33:07 GMT -1
I'm not convinced West Brom could. They weren't good when they came to Hillsboro'. I agree with Cav that out of that lot the 3 that go up will come back down. Well they're not outstanding but I think they have the best chance out of that selection. |
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Post by jh1980 on Mar 27, 2008 9:40:12 GMT -1
Why they are terrible. Do you know at this stage of the season when Reading were top we were already promoted with 92 points and 20 points clear of 3rd place. The top team now have 68 points. The division is very weak. West Brom lost 4-1 at home to Leicester the other day! Just saying West Brom have a better chance than most, imho!  With a couple of decent strikers and a bigger squad generally we'd do alright too I think. Been playing some good stuff. *Awaits ridicule*  |
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Post by HURLOCK on Mar 27, 2008 9:41:55 GMT -1
I've not seen them play but everyone seems to rate West Brom as the best team in the Championship, so good luck to them
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Post by ITFC Dudette6 on Mar 27, 2008 9:44:02 GMT -1
We'd survive! But only in my dreams...  I agree with Cav and H though, this division is pretty weak this season. You can lose a couple and you're sucked into a relegation battle, win a couple and you're dreaming of the play-offs. |
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Post by C@V on Mar 27, 2008 9:44:39 GMT -1
Why they are terrible. Do you know at this stage of the season when Reading were top we were already promoted with 92 points and 20 points clear of 3rd place. The top team now have 68 points. The division is very weak. West Brom lost 4-1 at home to Leicester the other day! Just saying West Brom have a better chance than most, imho! With a couple of decent strikers and a bigger squad generally we'd do alright too I think. Been playing some good stuff. *Awaits ridicule* No disrespect but most teams in the Championship will need to buy at least 6 or 7 good quality players to stay up. Have you got £20m + to spend if you go up? Also not many decent players want to go to a newly promoted side as they feel it's a risk. We still struggle to sign players and we look like having a 3rd season in a row in the top flight. We were fortunate to get promoted with an exceptional team (106 points) who were head and shoulders above the rest in the championship. We effectivly are still feilding the same team each week. |
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Post by C@V on Mar 27, 2008 9:48:27 GMT -1
You see I think it is a terrible situation that we have reached where the gap between the divisions is almost unbridgable. Soon it will almost certainly always be the 3 that go up come straight back down.
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Post by jh1980 on Mar 27, 2008 9:49:54 GMT -1
No disrespect but most teams in the Championship will need to buy at least 6 or 7 good quality players to stay up. Have you got £20m + to spend if you go up? Also not many decent players want to go to a newly promoted side as they feel it's a risk. We still struggle to sign players and we look like having a 3rd season in a row in the top flight. We were fortunate to get promoted with an exceptional team (106 points) who were head and shoulders above the rest in the championship. We effectivly are still feilding the same team each week. Buy, borrow, bosman... but "No, Sir" we certainly don't have £20m+ sitting in the coffers!!!  As someone was saying somewhere the other day though, the bottom half of the Premiership has a number of pretty average teams though, so as long as you can try to compete, you can stay up. Besides, effectively this argument tends to "why bother trying, 72 of the teams in the Football League should just give up now!" Fair points I suppose though. |
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Post by PASTIE on Mar 27, 2008 18:44:02 GMT -1
I voted for Argyle purely as i cannot bear to see us have nil votes. In reality, I would happily sneak our way up, enjoy the equivalent of the massive cup games we would dream of every week in the lower leagues, enjoy seeing the superstars perform, hope to hell we keep it in perspective and hang on to Sturrock, take the drop, the silly money and then work on being taken seriously the season after! ON the other hand, I do think that anybody without pretensions might just have the capacity to do what Reading have done - at the minute the most surprising team is Hull and there is a growing culture for the unfashionable clubs lacking top flight history to come through, so you never know... ...Ok, of course we know. We'd get murdered every week. Derby looked rubbish every time we played them last year and we're showing no signs of being better than they were...  |
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Post by lw on Mar 27, 2008 18:56:07 GMT -1
we could survive maybe..
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Post by C@V on Mar 28, 2008 8:06:16 GMT -1
Actually QPR would survive as they are the richest club in the world if you look at who owns them!
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Post by URRZZZ!!! on Mar 28, 2008 8:46:15 GMT -1
I agree that the bottom half of the Premiership is average and you only need a few wise signings to compete, like Brum and Sunderland this time. Of course competing may not be enough, look at Sheff Utd last season. You also never know which Premiership club may self-destruct, in a similar vein to the likes of Charlton and Fulham. That gives promoted clubs a chance.
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Post by URRZZZ!!! on Mar 28, 2008 8:57:56 GMT -1
P.s. I voted Stoke because I didn't read it properly and voted for who I thought would go up, but I don't think they'll survive.
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Post by PureOldGold on Mar 29, 2008 19:55:52 GMT -1
What a Silly Poll, the current 6th place team not even in it  |
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