Clubs that have been relegated

[KRS]

Getting relegated is clearly a certain possibility this season...so what are our chances of bouncing back straight to the PL if the unthinkable does happen? Its looking a bit grim...

Teams relegated and their final league position in the Championship the following season since 2006:

2006-2007
Sheffield United (9th)
Charlton Athletic (11th)
Watford (6th)

2007-2008
Reading (4th)
Birmingham City (2nd)
Derby County (18th)

2008-2009
Newcastle United (1st)
Middlesbrough (11th)
West Bromwich Albion (2nd)

2009-2010
Burnley (8th)
Hull City (11th)
Portsmouth (16th)

2010-2011
Birmingham City (4th)
Blackpool (5th)
West Ham United (3rd)

2011-2012
Bolton Wanderers (~10th)
Blackburn Rovers (~11th)
Wolverhampton Wndrs (~22nd)

Out of 18 teams relegated from the PL, only 4 teams have managed to return the following the season:

2007-2008 Birmingham City
2008-2009 Newcastle United
2008-2009 West Bromwich Albion
2010-2011 West Ham United

The only bit of good news is that 50% of the teams who managed an immediate return are Midlands clubs...its grasping at straws but its the only thing going in our favour if we do go down.

[OzVilla]

So much for the parachute payments giving relegated sides an advantage for a year or two.

[bones.]

Of those 17 different clubs only 4 are currently in the top division, 12 are in the championship and 2 are in league 1.
And Blues coming back up wasnt good news.

[eastie]

If we go down the better players will leave, it would be a hard task to get back up at the 1st attempt.

[UK Redsox]

If we go down the better players will leave, it would be a hard task to get back up at the 1st attempt.

Villa will have better bouncebackability than the others

[Rip Van We Go Again]

We'd get back at the first attempt under the excellent stewardship of Lerner and Faulkner.

We'd also be the only carbon neutral ground in the division, how many Championship clubs can say THAT?

[Dave]

The only bit of good news is that 50% of the teams who managed an immediate return are Midlands clubs...its grasping at straws but its the only thing going in our favour if we do go down.

I'd say that another bit of good news is that the overwhelming majority of those clubs had only been recently promoted in the first place.

And that two of the four who came straight back up were the two clubs on the list with the most experience of being in the Premier League.

[KRS]

True...but unfortunately most of our team and management have little PL experience, and its what we do on the pitch no our history as a PL club that would get us back to the PL.

[peter w]

It depends on which players will be retained by the club in teh Championship. benteke is someone likely to go, ditto ireland, N'Zog and given. Which gives us the base to push on. I'm sure that we will attract better players in a smaller pool than we're struggling to get now. We were never going to try and pay £100k per week on the likes of Samba. If Dunne miraculously gets fit then I do not think a partnership of him with Vlaar (who probably will return to Holland), or Clark/Baker is a bad one. We would need to buy in a little more experience in the Steve Sims way.

The full backs will be okay and then another midfielder or two. I think Gabby and Weimann will score plenty in the Champtionship.

[MarkM]

Assuming the following:

We go down along with QPR and Reading, Cardiff, Watford and Hull go up we will have to try to bounce back competing with the following:

QPR - have spent big and if they retain Harry and there players will be strong
Reading
Leicster
Brighton
Forest
Leeds
Middlesborough
Crystal Palace

As well as potential local derby's against:

Blues, Derby, Wolves [if they stay up] which could all be tricky games

And we also have to consider Blackburn and Bolton as being potentially strong, not to mention that at least one team comes from nowhere and has a really good season and makes it to promotion or into the play offs.

Added to that if we do go down we will more than likely loose some of our better players including Benteke and possibly Bent

I put our chances at bouncing straight back at about 30%

[Ads]

If QPR go down, they'll go bust.

[eastie]

If QPR go down, they'll go bust.

No they wont , they have mega rich owners and the quality of samba , remy etc could easily be sold to recoup the outlay, qpr if they go down will walk the championship next season .

Fenandez has already stated he and harry would remain and they would be  far better bet than us to get promoted if both go down.

[peter w]

I think we'll come straight back up. Not just through claret and clue spectacles but because we will be biggest club down there. We will be the biggest draw in terms of getting the right players to get us back up and our team will have another year together. It won't be easy and I'm not suggesting for one second that we will be getting 100 points plus and belting teams left rigth and centre. But we will go back up.

[richard moore]

I suspect this is a discussion for early May is it not? A highly likely discussion granted sad to say...

[peter w]

Not really. We're likely to go down this season IMO. Our goal difference is a mill stone around our neck. We keep conceding late goals (conceding full stop) and any side with a defence that concedes go down. That won't change now with 11 games to go and although not donme and dusted I think we will go down.

At that stage I will be asking pelty to ask his dad and his dad's mate to resign and never return to Villa Park.