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One good thing that will come out of it is that Donald will get to sell his shares off and we will get rid of him.
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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 agree, in fact I’d go so far as to say we’d have done even better if we’d gone up that season rather than the following one.If we had went up after the Charlton game we would have still been tremendous. Keeping the likes of Clark, Bridges, Johnston etc.
I'll just sayI'll just say 'Huddersfield '.
Congratulations on winning the Euromillions Sir!
Thanks but I’ll decline, it’s too much too soon. Hopefully I can win it again one day in the future.
Stepping away from all the talk and speculation over how we might fare next season and the season beyond, and balance sheets and models and planning.
Football is about moments and memories. West Brom was one, Preston was one, Saturday was one.
Win tonight and at Wembley and there’s another 2 in the vault to tell the grandkids about when you’re old.
Gerraway man! PL champs 24 and CL winners 25!Can we book promotion in 2025, PL champions in 2029 and CL winners in 2032 please?
That timeline would be the most suitable imo.
It's a silly opinion. You don't pick and choose when you go up. If you don't take your chances you might not get out of the league for years and years.
We're going up, enjoy it instead of thinking of negatives for no reason.
Great post. That's what it's about, you could say that life is like that too, we're always looking ahead to something whether that's worry or excitement and we often don't focus on the now. This season has been class and it's good to be able to hold our heads up high again. If we go up we should really cherish the moment. If we don't then we've done class and I'm confident next season will be more of the same.
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!'