Quote from: Border villan on June 28, 2020, 12:20:42 PMFollowing promotion last summer Purslow said we were 12 months ahead on our plans for world domination. Watching yesterday’s abysmal second half it seems that in a few weeks, if relegated, we will be back in the Premiership by August 2021 at the earliest. World domination postponed yet again.I think that's the issue. We'd have been better served by not quite going up last year and developing the squad in the Championship. We are indeed going to be setback by a longer period.
Following promotion last summer Purslow said we were 12 months ahead on our plans for world domination. Watching yesterday’s abysmal second half it seems that in a few weeks, if relegated, we will be back in the Premiership by August 2021 at the earliest. World domination postponed yet again.
I disagree as I think we needed to go up purely from a financial point of view. We'd have lost Grealish, McGinn and not signed Mings for starters and more pertinently may not have been rescued by our new owners. Even if we go down we'll have had a year of PL money and two years of parachute payments plus better fees if we do sell players.
Quote from: Drummond on June 28, 2020, 09:43:14 PMQuote from: Border villan on June 28, 2020, 12:20:42 PMFollowing promotion last summer Purslow said we were 12 months ahead on our plans for world domination. Watching yesterday’s abysmal second half it seems that in a few weeks, if relegated, we will be back in the Premiership by August 2021 at the earliest. World domination postponed yet again.I think that's the issue. We'd have been better served by not quite going up last year and developing the squad in the Championship. We are indeed going to be setback by a longer period. We'd have been better served by employing a better manager and a better director of football. Sheffield United were in League 1 three years ago. I don't accept for a single second that spending our money more intelligently and replacing Smith when it was clear this job is too much for him wouldn't have seen us higher in the table.
Quote from: Brazilian Villain on June 28, 2020, 10:29:24 PMI disagree as I think we needed to go up purely from a financial point of view. We'd have lost Grealish, McGinn and not signed Mings for starters and more pertinently may not have been rescued by our new owners. Even if we go down we'll have had a year of PL money and two years of parachute payments plus better fees if we do sell players.How does that work as they'd already bought us?
Moyes and Pearson, two of the more experienced managers in this country have both failed to get much of a tune out of the squads they've inherited; why are you so convinced that anyone else would do better for us?
This time next year Rodney.
We desperately needed to get out of the Championship, scares the hell out of me to think we could be back there next season, problem we had when we got promoted, lack of experience in our management, a manager who believed he could try something different and survive the Premiership, he simply didn't get any Premiership experience in, even a few players at the end of there career would have made huge difference, that's whats done us, even the likes of Liverpool have relied on players like Milner to hold the line when needed, no not Smith, not the way he wanted to play it. Crazy.
I've said this all season but am convinced having watched the matches on TV the last two weeks. Instead of breaking the bank to buy mediocrity last summer we should have broken the bank to get Tammy! At least our attacks (when they happened) had some focus and knew where the penalty box was!
it's not looking good for us another defeat with Liverpool and Man Utd our next two games I don't know were our next point will come from.
Quote from: BoVillan esq on June 29, 2020, 12:31:41 PMWe desperately needed to get out of the Championship, scares the hell out of me to think we could be back there next season, problem we had when we got promoted, lack of experience in our management, a manager who believed he could try something different and survive the Premiership, he simply didn't get any Premiership experience in, even a few players at the end of there career would have made huge difference, that's whats done us, even the likes of Liverpool have relied on players like Milner to hold the line when needed, no not Smith, not the way he wanted to play it. Crazy. Again, not sure it's fair to land the buck squarely at Smith's feet, I seem to remember Purslow discussing the club's policy of lowering the age of the squad.
Quote from: darren woolley on June 29, 2020, 04:41:25 PMit's not looking good for us another defeat with Liverpool and Man Utd our next two games I don't know were our next point will come from.The way things are going? Probably at home to Charlton.