The Cost of Relegation

[Dave P]

Nobody wants it surely   I started this thread with the intention of knocking that out of people if they did feel like that .

[eamonn]

Newcastle's loss was only £2m more than the previous season.
Obviously they got rid of some high-earners (yes, you Habibb Beye), lost out on TV revenue and had Ashley pump more money in. They did well to come straight back up, I think they're crowds stayed consistently high (comparable to our current average) in the Championship aswell.

[Chipsticks]

Having worked with the stadium Maintenance staff; it would be a massive shame for them as they would most likely be facing pay cuts at best.

[WikiVilla]

When we went down with McNeil I bet the cost was negligible?
Now it's unthinkable, the drop in income would be very hard to take for the club
I think we will be ok, 4 Pts from the next 2 games will set us up for a strong finish

[Apyadg]

Having worked with the stadium Maintenance staff; it would be a massive shame for them as they would most likely be facing pay cuts at best.

Indeed. Some millionaire's do a shit job, bugger off to get lucrative contracts elsewhere,  and the people on average salaries, who may well have done as good a job as they have previously. Very depressing, really, but I guess it happens in other industries as well. It's always the people at the bottom who suffer.

[5ft811st2 Durham]

It wouldn't be a disaster. We'd come straight back up as any half decent club does these days.

It's purely hypothetical though. There's no way we're going down. 

[SoccerHQ]

I think the worst thing would be losing some of our great young players.

Albrighton and Clark have already made a fantastic impact on the prem this season, it would only be a better of time before someone came in for them if the worst happened.

I would hope Delph and Bannan would stay but what would Delph do if Leeds went up and came back in for him.

Really dosen't bare thinking about does it?

That said, I do think we'd come back straight up as Newcastle did it.

[Des Little]

Let's beat Everton and the Mags and then we can all start to breathe a lot easier

[hawkeye]

Nice to think that we could go down, saunter around some different grounds winning every week and pop back up the next season as if nothing had happened. Sadly it isnt like that, no gaurantee we would come back up and it could set the club back several years. It would not be the end of Aston Villa but it might be the end of us ever being a major Top Flight team again

[villan1975]

So we would lose some overpaid players/manager that got us relegated?It is not something that i want to happen for 100% sure but if we do go down we will still be Aston Villa and i know for damn sure I will still love the club just as much.

[placeforparks]

now fx pro have jumped the sinking ship, maybe we could have the samaritans on our shirt next season?

[darren woolley]

I don't think we will go down i'm sure but if the unthinkable did happen we will still love our club and we would come back stronger but i really don't think we will get relegated i'm going to remain positive untill the end of the season even in our current plight.

[Chris Smith]

As has been said many times, 88% of our turnover goes on wages.
Pompey's was 90% when they went down.

I don't see how Randy would be able to continue bankrolling the club in the Championship.
The only hope would be an immediate return the season after but that's anything but guaranteed.

Worrying times for us all.

I agree it's a worry but I'm pretty sure that Randy isn't going to turn his back on his investement so I think he would continue to support the club. That said, I'm still confident that we'll stay up.

I've spoken to 2 different Blues fans this week and they were both convinced that they're going down so this fatalism isn't confined to us.

[UsualSuspect]

As has been said many times, 88% of our turnover goes on wages.
Pompey's was 90% when they went down.

I don't see how Randy would be able to continue bankrolling the club in the Championship.
The only hope would be an immediate return the season after but that's anything but guaranteed.

Worrying times for us all.

Agree with that

Me too

[UsualSuspect]

i can not believe how much negativity there is amongst the supporters

I know.
I can't think what's caused it.

Nor me

I mean we win 1 game in five, have no clue tactically and haven't kept a clean sheet for 20 odd games and surrendered in the FA Cup


Fuck me