Like many, I'd hate to this big hearted tight squad broken up prematurely to make way for mercenaries.
Let the team play as they have been doing and see what happens. No expectations.
Then it's just bit of fun if we do make a playoff place. And again, no expectations.
Really good point actually. Think its important to go up with a squad that will retain its spine of key players.
All of this being said, if we did (hypothetically) get promoted we couldd probably have a team capable of competing in the prem.
Just miss the days of a full Valley everyweek watching world class footballers. Also it'd be nice to have more than 30 seconds of highlights on the telly.
And Se9 see your point. Be a shame as well because I think that a lot of younger fans would be turned off the price hike
Can't actually believe I'm reading that people don't want us to make the playoffs ! Fairly sure SCP and the players feel differently. Having said that the squad isn't either good enough or deep enough to make it happen. The window is still open so that could change either way.
I think we are a terrific away side - if we work out how to win home games consistently - which isn't beyond the realms of possibility, we can do it, definitely. We are not favourites, but you generally see a team make that late push and with us looking like we have got to grips with the Championship, why shouldn't it be us?
I think we are a terrific away side - if we work out how to win home games consistently - which isn't beyond the realms of possibility, we can do it, definitely. We are not favourites, but you generally see a team make that late push and with us looking like we have got to grips with the Championship, why shouldn't it be us?
Absolutely agree Muttley. Also, when you consider the bad luck we had in the first part of the season with injuries and disallowed goals, I don't think our league position tells the true story as to how good this team is. Perhaps it might do by May ;-)
I don't think we will make the play-offs or that we are good enough to get promoted, but i do believe any team can nick tthat 6th place and i don't think Blackpool were good enough to get promoted the year they did.
Delighted to finish in our current postion or even if it is slightly lower but see no reason to give up on that 6th place finish just yet, with so much football to play.
Why would anyone not want a chance to get promoted back to the Prem? I don't think our squad is quite deep enough to keep this up and push on to the playoffs but it would be amazing if we could.
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To be honest I would rather a couple of years where we thought we would win more games than we lost where survival was not the aim and where we could relate to the players we had turn out for us. If the premier league decided to become a close shop I would not shed a tear
The play-offs are not realistic. Let's get more points on the board, see if we can give a few of the youngsters a taste of first team action and then try and strengthen in the Summer. Even if there isn't much cash around, we should be able to pick up a better standard of Bosman signing after a decent Championship season.
im happy where we are, the thought of 40 quid plus tickets, all the plastics returning is somthing i can do without, maybe in a few years but would hate to go back up to soon.
If we have a chance of making the play offs, I want us to give it our all to make them. It's only a seven point gap, we have a hard working team that play for each other, we have found our feet in this league and confidence is rising. We won the league last year and with this little run and increased confidence momentum could just push us through the back door. It's a tough ask but notoriously someone makes a late run. I can't understand why any fan off this club wouldn't want us to go up. Personally I want us to try and win things, I want us to win promotion, play in the Premier League and I want us to try and win cups.
We all want us to stay up, that was the priority when the season started but we find ourselves in a better position than most would have thought at this point. It's a credit to Chris and the lads that we are even having this discussion.
Happy where we are. I fear for what might happen to the club financially and the average Joe being priced out of going to games. I'm loving supporting this club as much as I ever have right now.
With all this talk about play offs and promotion....if we were successful in gaining promotion, which of our players do you think could make the step up? Solly is the obvious choice, some may say Stephens (I have my doubts), any others?
It's happened AGAIN! Twice in 2 days ..... I write a post, click on Post Comment and get a message, "Your post is waiting to be approved".
The post is not posted. And now the post can't be retrieved. What's going on ???????
Anybody else had this problem?
I've had the same thing. I'm not going to go down the " censorship " arguement till I find out what's going on .
Something to do with spam blocker AFKA advised this 12 days ago
Carly and any others that have been hit by this.....
There are a couple of different spam filters that run on this platform. One of them (Akisnet) appears to have a problem with certain links that people have tried to post (other press articles, you tube vids etc). It is not clear why it is blocking those specific links, and no explanation is given, they just go on our spam queue (current number 853, for @InspectorSands fans out there).
Why you then get a message saying it is awaiting approval i really don't know. On the spam queue, as an administrator there is no option to 'approve'. It is just listed there. Whether @lookout as master administrator has those options available to him, i don't know.
So apologies to anyone that ever gets impacted by this (history suggests it happens just a couple of times a week). It isn't to do with anything you are saying needing approval, its due to a link you are posting for some reason hitting a spam filter.
Happy where we are. I fear for what might happen to the club financially
Don't get this. Surely the money from going up would be massively beneficial for the club, providing we don't spend beyond our means? The tentation to spend beyond our means is what worries me. To many prem clubs are in above there heads financially
With all this talk about play offs and promotion....if we were successful in gaining promotion, which of our players do you think could make the step up? Solly is the obvious choice, some may say Stephens (I have my doubts), any others?
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All of this being said, if we did (hypothetically) get promoted we couldd probably have a team capable of competing in the prem.
Just miss the days of a full Valley everyweek watching world class footballers. Also it'd be nice to have more than 30 seconds of highlights on the telly.
And Se9 see your point. Be a shame as well because I think that a lot of younger fans would be turned off the price hike
Delighted to finish in our current postion or even if it is slightly lower but see no reason to give up on that 6th place finish just yet, with so much football to play.
Can't say I think we'll make playoffs, but I've no problem with us trying.
The post is not posted. And now the post can't be retrieved. What's going on ???????
Anybody else had this problem?
We all want us to stay up, that was the priority when the season started but we find ourselves in a better position than most would have thought at this point. It's a credit to Chris and the lads that we are even having this discussion.
Carly and any others that have been hit by this.....
There are a couple of different spam filters that run on this platform. One of them (Akisnet) appears to have a problem with certain links that people have tried to post (other press articles, you tube vids etc). It is not clear why it is blocking those specific links, and no explanation is given, they just go on our spam queue (current number 853, for @InspectorSands fans out there).
Why you then get a message saying it is awaiting approval i really don't know. On the spam queue, as an administrator there is no option to 'approve'. It is just listed there. Whether @lookout as master administrator has those options available to him, i don't know.
So apologies to anyone that ever gets impacted by this (history suggests it happens just a couple of times a week). It isn't to do with anything you are saying needing approval, its due to a link you are posting for some reason hitting a spam filter.