anonymous_third_party
Midfield
I think the team will do pretty well in the EPL. The club is riding on a wave, got to see it through and get promoted if we can.
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Take a look at Coventry Balti they are a good side and have been in Championship and league one for the past 20+years, you CANNOT simply pick and choose when to go up, you need to grasp it with both hands and let the cards lie where they fall, worry about next season next season.
If I’m totally honest we have probably over achieved with what we have at our disposal. It just goes to show how much a good team spirit matters. Its obvious looking at them they are playing without the pressures of it being vital to get promoted.
I also wonder what KLD is thinking. He will know in the unlikely event that we gain promotion players contracts will rocket. Will he be that bothered if things don’t turn out the way we would love it to?
I agree. The young players like Patterson, Hume, Ballard, Cirkin, Alese, Ekwah, Clarke and Neil look to me to be about ready to give the PL a go. The older cohort; Roberts, Stewart, Pritchard, O9, Gooch and Batth will be itching to play PL, for different reasons (a last hurrah, unfinished business, a new challenge). We'd need to add to the squad, but we've got the bones of a squad that would have a chance in the PL.This team (with central defenders and centre forward fit) would finish outside of the bottom three of the prem, I'm convinced of it. Amad staying for another season withstanding.
There's not a single sunderland fan who wouldn't take promotion right now, they'll say otherwise but there is no greater place to be for the club than the prem. And should it come crashing down, I'd have faith in the footballing side of things retaining dignity.If people don't want us to go up then don't watch the game tonight or bother wanting a Wembley ticket
Don’t get ahead of yourselfI cast my mind back to losing to Charlton at Wembley in 1998. Utterly devastating at the time, after a great season. But hindsight suggests staying down a further season then storming to the title stood us in better stead going into the Premier League.
I wonder if potentially going up this year, despite the blatantly obvious financially lucrative benefits, might be similar? We now already have more than a nucleus of a very good side. Another season in the Championship with most of these players (with Ekwah, Hume, Cirkin, Hume, Neil, Ba, Michael potentially and others) gaining another full season of experience, along with bedding in hopefully two or more new strikers, might mean we go up stronger.
The 'danger' is that going up now and potentially coming straight down again might result in this exciting young team (that could spend several years developing and improving) being dismantled sooner. Yes we would be in the Championship with loads of money, in a 'better' state to have another go, but who knows?
All hypothetical anyway since we might get knocked out tonight or lose at Wembley, or we might go up and stay up!
Part of me just feels that should we not go up this month, next season could see us having a storming season with this current crop (with reinforcements) being much stronger and being better equipped for the top flight when we get there.
Of course, we could miss out now and be floundering mid-table in the Championship next year and be thinking we could have had £100+ million when we had a great chance. Who is to say how tough the Championship will be next season and we could rue a rare opportunity to 'sneak' promotion this year and regret it for years?
Or a meringue?
In the end, I can't help willing the Lads to get promoted and face what comes, but I have a niggling feeling we could miss out on seeing this team storming it next year with these current players ramping up another few notches. I suppose we should/can trust the recruitment team to utilise any Premier League income and potential parachute payments (should the worst happen) and we could do a Burnley in two years from now...
All ifs and buts but curious to know the thoughts of the wise SMB. I would wager the majority thinking 'F**k it, let's get up and worry about it later and have a good f**king go!'
No side that goes up and doesn’t invest will ever stay up in the PL. Burnley would be lucky to get 15 points if they didn’t buy anyone and went with the same squad, so for me the too early argument is stupid - as it won’t be this 11 we’re playing next season anyway. Not to mention the fact we aren’t guaranteed automatic next season if we don’t go up.I cast my mind back to losing to Charlton at Wembley in 1998. Utterly devastating at the time, after a great season. But hindsight suggests staying down a further season then storming to the title stood us in better stead going into the Premier League.
I wonder if potentially going up this year, despite the blatantly obvious financially lucrative benefits, might be similar? We now already have more than a nucleus of a very good side. Another season in the Championship with most of these players (with Ekwah, Hume, Cirkin, Hume, Neil, Ba, Michael potentially and others) gaining another full season of experience, along with bedding in hopefully two or more new strikers, might mean we go up stronger.
The 'danger' is that going up now and potentially coming straight down again might result in this exciting young team (that could spend several years developing and improving) being dismantled sooner. Yes we would be in the Championship with loads of money, in a 'better' state to have another go, but who knows?
All hypothetical anyway since we might get knocked out tonight or lose at Wembley, or we might go up and stay up!
Part of me just feels that should we not go up this month, next season could see us having a storming season with this current crop (with reinforcements) being much stronger and being better equipped for the top flight when we get there.
Of course, we could miss out now and be floundering mid-table in the Championship next year and be thinking we could have had £100+ million when we had a great chance. Who is to say how tough the Championship will be next season and we could rue a rare opportunity to 'sneak' promotion this year and regret it for years?
Or a meringue?
In the end, I can't help willing the Lads to get promoted and face what comes, but I have a niggling feeling we could miss out on seeing this team storming it next year with these current players ramping up another few notches. I suppose we should/can trust the recruitment team to utilise any Premier League income and potential parachute payments (should the worst happen) and we could do a Burnley in two years from now...
All ifs and buts but curious to know the thoughts of the wise SMB. I would wager the majority thinking 'F**k it, let's get up and worry about it later and have a good f**king go!'
Its simple really ! its a sport! so you do the best you can with what you've got! if not the edifice of sport its reason for existing is a sham and you might as well pack it all in !Accountants will be thinking of the 120 tv million though!I cast my mind back to losing to Charlton at Wembley in 1998. Utterly devastating at the time, after a great season. But hindsight suggests staying down a further season then storming to the title stood us in better stead going into the Premier League.
I wonder if potentially going up this year, despite the blatantly obvious financially lucrative benefits, might be similar? We now already have more than a nucleus of a very good side. Another season in the Championship with most of these players (with Ekwah, Hume, Cirkin, Hume, Neil, Ba, Michael potentially and others) gaining another full season of experience, along with bedding in hopefully two or more new strikers, might mean we go up stronger.
The 'danger' is that going up now and potentially coming straight down again might result in this exciting young team (that could spend several years developing and improving) being dismantled sooner. Yes we would be in the Championship with loads of money, in a 'better' state to have another go, but who knows?
All hypothetical anyway since we might get knocked out tonight or lose at Wembley, or we might go up and stay up!
Part of me just feels that should we not go up this month, next season could see us having a storming season with this current crop (with reinforcements) being much stronger and being better equipped for the top flight when we get there.
Of course, we could miss out now and be floundering mid-table in the Championship next year and be thinking we could have had £100+ million when we had a great chance. Who is to say how tough the Championship will be next season and we could rue a rare opportunity to 'sneak' promotion this year and regret it for years?
Or a meringue?
In the end, I can't help willing the Lads to get promoted and face what comes, but I have a niggling feeling we could miss out on seeing this team storming it next year with these current players ramping up another few notches. I suppose we should/can trust the recruitment team to utilise any Premier League income and potential parachute payments (should the worst happen) and we could do a Burnley in two years from now...
All ifs and buts but curious to know the thoughts of the wise SMB. I would wager the majority thinking 'F**k it, let's get up and worry about it later and have a good f**king go!'
I'll just say 'Huddersfield '.