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Getting promoted - do we actually want it?

By this logic we never want to be in the top league. As a bare minimum we need to go up to get the cash and build further so we can get up and stay up.
 

This team has just lost four games in a row to teams of not so exceptionally talented championship journeymen.
The thought of Liverpool, Man City, Newcastle and Arsenal against us just terrifies me. We might as well get Mick Mack back for next season if we go up. At least he's been there before.
 
Church said:
It was pretty shit for us for most of our recent years there, and looks like it would be even worse this time. Can't disagree at all.

Even 'lower' teams like Palace are so far ahead of us, and getting humped twice by the Mags would be really bad. Still, I do think that we have to endure a difficult year in order to get the cash injection for the next time, following which things should be easier.
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I am a bit confused by this reply. This season was bad for us and it has been very difficult, but we do have the playoffs. I would say Palace are streets ahead of us. We would kill for their position. They have very good players. Whether next season will be easier for us I can’t tell. If the doom mongers are correct and the players who are going to leave will go and if as they say nobody is staying since they never mention them, then I can see lower mid table and avoid relegation by a few games.
 
We need to be on the PL gravy train to progress really, so yes.

But we've been awful for 2 or 3 months at this level and despite all the smoke blown up some of our young players we are a million miles off being a PL side- it would likely be a horror show next season if we somehow managed to scramble through the play-offs.
Barista said:
If we don’t get promoted we’ll lose more of the young players, so we will constantly be in flux with the best players leaving each time we don’t get promoted.
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That's true. But some are probably at their most valuable now and I don't think they'll progress. One or two of the younger ones are massively overrated too and youth and getting games probably has their value higher now that it may be in the near future.

Difficult thing to manage and weve got far too many in the squad who are injury prone. You have to take the chances you're given but I think it's a bit early for us in term of the level of our 'young stars'.
 
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Good Teeth Keith said:
Watching the Premier highlights and seeing Ipswich put up no fight against the Mags, I’m not sure how we go from getting turned over by Oxford and Blackburn to competing with established Premier League teams in a couple of months.

This team has some talent but it is miles off being able to compete in the PL. I honestly wouldn’t mind another season in this league and letting the young players develop and hopefully continue to improve.

I’m not sure I would enjoy a season of getting battered like Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton have had. Maybe these last few weeks are just sucking the life/positivity out of me.
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Billion per cent yes …. But RLB would have to go !!!!!
 
I don't understand anyone who says they don't want to get promoted

The club might get relegated, but it will help us attract better players, grow the squad, bring in more money. You can't get from L1 to the Prem in one bound
 
For the long term, yes. For the short term it probably won't be a fun season. Not saying it can't be, but history is against you.
 
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