If Sunderland went up via the play offs.......


If we did go up this year we'd be fucked in the PL mind, but at least we'd pocket some cash and join the ranks of parachute clubs

This is my opinion too. I bet lots of our fans on here thought we'd stay up with Mick Mack's team who went up as champions. Imo it would be very difficult to stay up but we'd be in a stronger position overall.
 
Too much too soon can be a backwards step.
Yeah. The point of competitive sport is to perform as well as possible at as high a level as possible.

However, I do find myself thinking about the silver lining if we don’t go up. I think we are already in the most exciting English division. Most games are competitive, anyone can beat anyone on their day and look how tight it’s been all season! Goals galore and the quality of football is decent. Plus you don’t have to put up with, for now at least, VAR.

Imagine if Burnley, Sheff United and Luton go up, Wigan, Reading, Blackpool go down and are replaced by Leeds, Forest, Everton, Ipswich, Derby and Sheff Wed.

That would be a cracking set of clubs all in the championship.

The championship NEEDS var!!
 
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This is my opinion too. I bet lots of our fans on here thought we'd stay up with Mick Mack's team who went up as champions. Imo it would be very difficult to stay up but we'd be in a stronger position overall.
I know it's totally different times but McCarthy squad was abject. Andy Grey up top and Kelvin Davis in goal.
Trey Hume and his dodgy 'tache
Trey Hume and his dodgy 'tache
Trey Hume and his dodgy 'tache
Trey Hume and his dodgy 'tache

Good player!!
Yes, and yes it's a criminal tache.
 
I wonder how much worse Forest would have done without the massive changes they made ?
They did have to make a lot of changes in the summer due to how many players left at the end of last season. Plus you have a bench of 9 in the Premier League now.

That said they went daft with it towards the end of the window, and again in January. Players they'd signed less than 6 months previous left out of the squad. Silly stuff.
 

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