Either Or...

[E I Adio]

No brainer.

Tin pot Rumbelows tyg. Now if it was the FA cup I'd have to think about it.

[ozzjim]

Stay up.

I appreciate it's the league cup and is silverware, but getting relegated with our current financial situation, in a year when the TV money means the lowest placed team will get as much money as the CL place teams do this year would, makes it even more riskier that we'd stay down for a prolonged period of time.

It's easy to assume we'd go down and bounce back up, but I imagine Leeds, Forest, Leicester etc thought that as well.

You are right I freely admit, but it is a sad day that essentially winning nothing is more preferable than winning a trophy because of money.

[E I Adio]

Stay up.

I appreciate it's the league cup and is silverware, but getting relegated with our current financial situation, in a year when the TV money means the lowest placed team will get as much money as the CL place teams do this year would, makes it even more riskier that we'd stay down for a prolonged period of time.

It's easy to assume we'd go down and bounce back up, but I imagine Leeds, Forest, Leicester etc thought that as well.

You are right I freely admit, but it is a sad day that essentially winning nothing is more preferable than winning a trophy because of money.

But it's not really the money per se. It's the thought that next season we would be struggling just to try to gain promotion, wheras if we stay up we might win the league.

[ozzjim]

Lol.. yeah we might.

[OCD]

Stay up.

I appreciate it's the league cup and is silverware, but getting relegated with our current financial situation, in a year when the TV money means the lowest placed team will get as much money as the CL place teams do this year would, makes it even more riskier that we'd stay down for a prolonged period of time.

It's easy to assume we'd go down and bounce back up, but I imagine Leeds, Forest, Leicester etc thought that as well.

You are right I freely admit, but it is a sad day that essentially winning nothing is more preferable than winning a trophy because of money.

But it's not really the money per se. It's the thought that next season we would be struggling just to try to gain promotion, wheras if we stay up we might win the league.

I hadn't heard that the top 16 were in talks about a break-away European league.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Out the cup, stay up and lift the FA Cup.

[Karlos96]

Only one option for me stay up. If we go down I fear we wouldn't back for sometime.

[Top Cat]

Out the cup, stay up and lift the FA Cup.

This. 

[TheTimVilla]

Stay up. We'd need to win 30 odd games to come back up, or 4 to get back to this position.

[ktvillan]

A cup win would look nice in the records but these days the glory has become secondary to the finances.  Relegation could affect us for years if not decades, especially with an owner who appears to have padlocked his wallet for the foreseeable future.  We need that TV money.

[eastie]

My answer is stay up but if the question was also applied to the fa cup my answer would be different.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Portsmouth won a better one, The FA Cup. Fat lot of fucking good it did them.

As a regular match goer, I'd find it hard to stomach sub-standard Championship football, I've seen enough of it in my time and it's shit.

And for people who think we'd fly back up after being relegated, I say only this - Randy Lerner.

Choosing a cup win and relegation is idiotic.

[Risso]

Portsmouth won a better one, The FA Cup. Fat lot of fucking good it did them.

As a regular match goer, I'd find it hard to stomach sub-standard Championship football, I've seen enough of it in my time and it's shit.

And for people who think we'd fly back up after being relegated, I say only this - Randy Lerner.

Choosing a cup win and relegation is idiotic.

Agreed.  It's basically saying "would you swap places with SHA?"

[PONGO49]

Have to go with win the cup.  Cup wins last forever, relegation is a short term problem and be back inside a year, and in 10 years, relegation will be forgotten and the cup win will still be there.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

relegation is a short term problem and be back inside a year.

You reckon so with the infrastructure of this club?
The hierarchy can't decide from one season to the next what style of Manager/Footballing set up they want.

I wouldn't trust Lerner, Faulkner et al to organise a two car funeral, let alone a promotion push.