Championship 2018-2019

[ChicagoLion]

Get promoted and be free of the spending rules.
Get promoted, we keep Jack, Mcginn maybe Tammy,Axel, Mings and the Goalie.
There are a couple of others that would fit in the squad
You test our ability to find talent, and we go again.
Stay down, you loose the loaneesm probably Jack and look for new talent.

Agreed,  do people want to hang around down here until every bit of talent is picked off.
The longer it takes the less likely that we will ever get back.
Sadly I think this season is allready over.

[footyskillz]

Here's something in the last 7 years
Villa, Derby , Birmingham are only teams  relegated from the premier league that haven't experienced promotion or another relegation .

[SoccerHQ]

I don’t think you can pick and choose when you want to get promoted. We need to throw everything at it this season IMO as otherwise next season we’ll be without Tommy’s goals and probably Jack too.

Huddersfield were one of the worst teams to ever get promoted and they didn’t come straight back down. Cardiff may do the same this season.

We wouldn't have the squad simply. More than half need to go in the summer as they're not good enough for this level.

If we'd beaten Fulham I think we'd have had a fighting chance of staying up if we'd made 3-4 decent signings. Snodgrass has been a regular for West Ham in mid table so he'd have probably been one.

SB would've set us up to nick draws and the odd win like Warnock has done at Cardiff which has given them a great chance to stop up now.

[footyskillz]

I read that the average time to regain top-flight status is three seasons - although nearly half (21 out of 46) have
immediately return.

At  the start of last season, 64 per cent of relegated teams have made a Premier League return - that's 46 out of 72. At some point.

(I don't know if it's more with updated stats including Fulham , Cardiff and wolves -think all already included, maybe one with Cardiff.)

Source : sky sports

[mr underhill]

well I think we can say with reasonable confidence that our wait is going into a fourth season.

[Dave P]

I'm taking heart from the fact Norwich stuck by a manager who had an indifferent start and sold their best player but are smashing the league this year.  No reason whatsoever why that couldn't be us next season.

[Dave P]

Also, the form we will need to find to get into the playoffs now will have to be that good, that when we do play the play off games our confidence will know no bounds.

[adrenachrome]

According to the table on FootyStats we are top of the league for games which have 3 goals or more with a figure of 71%. Only Ipswich and Rotherham have conceded more goals, and only Norwich and Bitters have scored more.

A weird season.

[Meanwood Villa]

I reckon we need to win 10 out of our last 15 to get in the playoffs. On that basis I don't think we're going to make it.

[SoccerHQ]

30 points would give us a chance so could do it with 9 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

Tall order.

[Steve67]

We need to build the squad.  If we went up this season, we'd come bottom again and be in the same sad position as we recently were.  I think we'd be embarrassed.  We will be much more competitive next season when Smith has a proper chance to address the shortcomings in the squad.  We will not reach the play offs this season with those full backs, those wingers and that midfield.  We stand a better chance with Jack back in the side and a fully fit Chester, next to Mings but the third midfielder is always going to be a concern.

[Meanwood Villa]

Yes fair point, was thinking 30 points so automatically thought 10 wins. More likely to get 10 draws.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

We need to build the squad.  If we went up this season, we'd come bottom again and be in the same sad position as we recently were.  I think we'd be embarrassed.  We will be much more competitive next season when Smith has a proper chance to address the shortcomings in the squad.  We will not reach the play offs this season with those full backs, those wingers and that midfield.  We stand a better chance with Jack back in the side and a fully fit Chester, next to Mings but the third midfielder is always going to be a concern.

I think we'll be humiliated, not merely embarrased if we went up this year. To save myself time, I'm writing off this season now. Trouble is, will Jack stay in any case, though?

[ChicagoLion]

We need to build the squad.  If we went up this season, we'd come bottom again and be in the same sad position as we recently were.  I think we'd be embarrassed.  We will be much more competitive next season when Smith has a proper chance to address the shortcomings in the squad.  We will not reach the play offs this season with those full backs, those wingers and that midfield.  We stand a better chance with Jack back in the side and a fully fit Chester, next to Mings but the third midfielder is always going to be a concern.

The problem is that we could start next season with no Jack No Ming’s No Tanzabee No Tamy No SJM.
Then we have to somehow build a team that will get promotion and be the basis of a PL team.
I think the bigger danger is that we are looking like we have settled at this level.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

We need to build the squad.  If we went up this season, we'd come bottom again and be in the same sad position as we recently were.  I think we'd be embarrassed.  We will be much more competitive next season when Smith has a proper chance to address the shortcomings in the squad.  We will not reach the play offs this season with those full backs, those wingers and that midfield.  We stand a better chance with Jack back in the side and a fully fit Chester, next to Mings but the third midfielder is always going to be a concern.

The problem is that we could start next season with no Jack No Ming’s No Tanzabee No Tamy No SJM.
Then we have to somehow build a team that will get promotion and be the basis of a PL team.
I think the bigger danger is that we are looking like we have settled at this level.

Absolutely this. It drives me nuts when people say they’d rather not go up yet as we aren’t ready. Just look at some of the shite that regularly survives in the PL.