Huddersfield

[Slow joe]

Read your own posts.

Didn't say they did

I said i was going to have a wank. So if someone says they're going to have a pizza that means they're calling themselves a pizza ?

 

[samaistonsrightfoot]

Read your own posts.

Didn't say they did

So why would they rather not go up than go up and spend a fortune trying to stay up?

Just do what Burnley did.

 

[HarrogateMackem]

Do a Burnley, go up and spend nothing. Pocket the cash and reinvest it and the parachute payments when you have been relegated, get promoted again.

 

[Get Into Em]

Doing a Wigan. Punched above their weight for a bit in the PL, now in freefall down to L1. You wonder if there will come a time were clubs turn down promotion to the PL if they know they can never compete
Sure, the £200m or so in Tv revenue and parachute payments are attractive, but how many of those clubs blow most of that cash on transfer fees/ wages trying to finish 4th bottom in the PL. Seems to destroy a few clubs that would have been better off staying a big fish in the Championship

You wonder if clubs would turn down £200m and the chance to be the most successful they've ever been?

Cardiff and Burnley both played it well iirc. Didn't spend much when they first got promoted and just made sure they had a strong enough Championship squad when they went back down.

 

[Flavonoids]

I wonder if several clubs wouldn't have been better playing on the moon. Don't say I can't.

 

[The Hesford Diet]

At least Wigan got some goals out of Will Grigg as well as being in a higher division than us. And they've won a major trophy and competed in Europe in the recent past.

If anything, Huddersfield are doing a Sunderland.

 

[partridge amongst the pig]

No you don't.

TBF this happens a lot in non league football. It would be bizarre to see it happen higher up the pyramid admittedly but it's not unprecedented in the game. Far from it.

 

[BIG MAL]

You called yourself a wanker

Is it an insult ?
I mean , is there anyone on here that hadn't wanked.... If so then they're liars.

 

[Al Bundy]

Norwich is the model for clubs that size. Good recruitment, don't go crazy when you go up, take the odd relegation from the top flight but always be immediately competitive in the top 10 of the championship.

Use the money wisely on developing the club and become a sustainable business, and also giving the fans good times.

Where Sunderland have gone off track in recent years is the recruit wisely bit.

That used to be us, able to get back up in a season or two.

 

[JL1985]

I’ve seen it at lower levels where teams have refused the chance of promotion because of costs but no club would refuse the PL. The fans would riot for a start. Imagine Donald said no.

 

[Richie K]

That used to be us, able to get back up in a season or two.

Exactly, but we always recruited well for the job in hand. The likes of Mccarthy, Reid and even Keane, knew what was needed to win the battle in that division.

Sadly those days seem a long way away now, and we could be a yo yo club again....unfortunately between league 1 and championship.

 

[Mackem00]

Turning down promotion in non league is in no way comparable to turning down promotion to the premier League. This thread is mental imo.

 

[houst69]

I'm pretty certain they'll look back at them as good times and hope that they can get there again.

Wigan won the FA Cup when they were in the PL. I very much doubt that their fans wish it didn't happen.

was just going to post this, bet the fans couldn’t believe it man

 

[Mowgli]

99% of clubs main focus is to survive as a business. You have the top 4 or 5 who win things, then 96 other league clubs focused on breaking even. Add to that, the hundreds of non-league clubs who run as a break-even entity. Look at the Northern League and how many of them refuse promotion because it would kill them as a club from a financial perspective

How would the PL kill them financially? Norwich gave went up and spent about £2m, they will come down in fantastic financial state. It's not the PL that runs finances, its incompetent owners.

 

[Dobbler]

I said i was going to have a wank. So if someone says they're going to have a pizza that means they're calling themselves a pizza ?

Mmmmmm... pizza and a wank.

 

[Daks]

Better to have tried and failed than not try at all

 

[Deleted member 46623]

They're hardly in freefall to League One anyway. They are 5 points above the bottom three, and two of those bottom three spots are pretty much certain. They're in reasonable form, and it was a really bad managerial appointment of someone who wasn't remotely qualified that did for them, not being in the Premier League.

Half the Championship has been in the Premier League in recent years, it's a massively competitive league.

No team will ever turn down promotion to the Premier League, it's ludicrous to suggest they will.

 

[myleftfoot1978]

Knocked me for 580 quid last night in a both team to score accy, lucky I cashed out early as I was watching them and they could still be playing now and would not of scored

 

[Black Cat Gypsy]

What's the point in football then? To survive as a business?

It's a sad day when that becomes the outlook.

This.

The ambition should be to get to the PL. The problem is that clubs are ran like businesses. If they are ran more football clubs this wouldn't happen. Too many clubs see the PL as a money tree and spend money in the hope of making money. In Huddersfield's case it was too much too soon.

Burnley and Southampton are the prime examples of how to run a successful PL club.

 

[Arkle]

Turning down promotion in non league is in no way comparable to turning down promotion to the premier League. This thread is mental imo.

Exactly. In non-league, it's invariably because the promotion moves the club to a league in which most of their games are out of the local region. Part time players can't always commit to the amount of travel involved and the club is crippled by extra transport costs. I can't see Huddersfield, for example, turning down the Premier League for those reasons.