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If a miracle happened and we had a chance of that some would complain it's too soon.Gerraway man! PL champs 24 and CL winners 25!![]()
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If a miracle happened and we had a chance of that some would complain it's too soon.Gerraway man! PL champs 24 and CL winners 25!![]()
The rationale is rubbish. Like it or not, we played better football in the play off season than the one afterwards. We’d have hit the PL with Clark, Johnston and Bridges all in the squad (plus any signings). Personally I think that if we’d gone up that season then we would have got over the line for Europe the following season and never looked back.
More difficult to keep the best players.What if we dont go up?
Not the first team to do it, wont be the lastI'll just say 'Huddersfield '.
When the season started I wanted a boring season , firmly entrenched in the middle order of the league.
I sharp forgot that nonsense and I`m all in for promotion now.
The main worry being we have alerted the mid to low end prem teams about how good our players are and I worry they`d get picked off over the summer if we failed.
Look at Huddersfield, narrowly defeated in the final last year and then a relegation battle this
What’s more it’s self evident the quality in the squad. Likewise the mentality. Look they will have to bring in at least 3 senior proven premiership players who are leaders at Centre Half, Central Midfield and Striker. Maybe players around 30 whilst the model catches up. In the Reid days it was likes of Bould, Shwarz and Quinn.
Is Henderson outside our reach ? Jonny Evans is probably to old now and I don’t like the idea of players from relegated teams. But you get the idea
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!'
So what? It was Huddersfield's first ever season in the PL. I'm sure they won't have been thinking it was too soon to go up. It's a daft thing to say imo.