Championship climax
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ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Wednesday and Forest have been down in disarray and come back from it.
The crispers will do too. Hopefully.
Shoulda kept Allen
Indeed. Would still mlove to know the real reason he was sacked.
TrippyLondoner
Well-Known Member
The real reason? Cause your chairman is a paranoid prick.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Indeed, but what specifically? 'Cos he stood up to him? 'Cos he was too big for his boots? Something more sinister?
TrippyLondoner
Well-Known Member
Probably just too high expectations, like the man city chairman. if your current chairman wants to earn some respect, he should stick with Holloway.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Perhaps... but then Holloway had 5 months and a lot of money, he should have been able to extert some influence in that time. Look at Neil Warnock!
TrippyLondoner
Well-Known Member
leicester is a different situation though, they're in need of some stability.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
True. Personally I hope we keep him. He cares, and that's what Leicester have been missing since O'Neill left.
Well with five minutes to go I was watching the Stoke game on Sky and it was very nearly eat your words time as Carlo Nash had to save at full stretch - much too close.
It was almost "eat your words" time ! Coventry, as the only one of the relegation possibles to lose, were very lucky.
I thought when they were relegated from the Premiership in 2001 that they'd be pushing for promotion - not struggling to avoid another drop. Don't want to go through an afternoon like that again.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
I was gonna say, you were an unfair penalty denial away from relegation... fucking Covscum
See you in a few years, I hope. We may never recover from this.
gnoriac
lowly seer
Was it just me or was today far worse than *any* of the premiership relegation scares?
Bomber
The Oatcake Kid !!
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
It was an incredible day of football.. if only you could get Prem quality with championship closeness of teams.
Bomber
The Oatcake Kid !!
That was called the First Division !!!
TrippyLondoner
Well-Known Member
You dunno about anything you Arse!!! Up the Potters !!!!!
Correction...i know they'll go down! And after that comment, i want them to now.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Eh? London and Leicester City haven't died, they've just had setbacks.What a sad, sad weekend for me.
RIP London and RIP Leicester city
I love the way all these tits think the division we play in is some kind of living death. Pompey, Sheffield United, Wolves, West Brom, Sheffield Wednesday, Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Derby County, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Manchester City, Bolton Wanderers, PNE, Burnley etc etc have all passed through this league, some for more than one season and a few have gone lower. Get a grip you big wusses, you'll be here next year.
Augie March
blahem
Sometimes a relegation like this can actually be a blessing in disguise. I think that the old adage that you have to take two steps back to take one step forward, applies here. For example with Man City, the momentum they got after returning to Div 1 pushed them through the league in a year or so. I could see the same thing happening with Notts Forest next year too. However you look at a club like Sheff Wed and who knows, a drop a few years back could've sparked some big changes and a chance to rebuild a club from the ground up, which is probably what they needed.
Of course it's not always the case, Bradford have struggled and fell down to the basement, but the key there is that a lot of support stuck with the side and they get big gates for the bottom league. I'd except them to be favourites to go up next year and then who knows, back in Div 1 after that. I think that as long as the club remains financially viable and can stay out of administration, the future can still be bright even if the present is looking bleak.
Of course it's not always the case, Bradford have struggled and fell down to the basement, but the key there is that a lot of support stuck with the side and they get big gates for the bottom league. I'd except them to be favourites to go up next year and then who knows, back in Div 1 after that. I think that as long as the club remains financially viable and can stay out of administration, the future can still be bright even if the present is looking bleak.
truth. though Wednesday have already been in this league a couple of years ago and didn't kick on after promotion (and they were here in the 70s as well iirc).
Bradford were just back at the same level they'd always been, albeit with a much improved ground and bigger gates so more chance of decent recovery.
Bradford were just back at the same level they'd always been, albeit with a much improved ground and bigger gates so more chance of decent recovery.
Far worse IMHO ! There's only space for twenty teams in Premier League so there'll always be some clubs the size of Coventry, Leicester, Southampton , the two Sheffields, Wolves, etc. who think they are big enough to be there but occasionally lose their place - but for one of these sides (and Forest and Leeds) to drop out of the top 44 is a nightmare.
When Cov dropped out of the Premier League I thought (like a lot of others and probably like fans of Leicester and Southampton when they lost their place) just give us a couple of years to regroup and we'll get back.
How wrong can you be - Coventry, Leicester and Southampton seem to be going backwards. Before Saturday I thought 'we've had the scare but we're safe now and we've got a good manager so next year we should be trying for a play-off place' - now I fear another season long slog to avoid the drop unless our owners can come up with some cash for new players or Coleman can use his contacts to get some good loan players who need experience from some of the Premiership 'big boys'.
I confess to a certain amount of ill-will to Leicester in their struggle but I hope they quickly bounce back and don't get 'stuck' in Div 1 like Forest did for a couple of seasons.
Bomber
The Oatcake Kid !!
Being a Championship club [like we once were ] is fine but dropping into league one and beyond is a nightmare !! We know from bitter experience! It's not on the field that goes tits up its behind the scenes. You have to cut wages, your star players leave, you have to get excited about your new signing from Tranmere 
Leicester have a long journey ahead of them but having been there & made it back I'm not about to weep for any teams who think they are to big for it all ... give the auto windscreen trophy or whatever it's called nowadays a good go, could be your only chance of a good day out in quite a while !!
] is fine but dropping into league one and beyond is a nightmare !! We know from bitter experience! It's not on the field that goes tits up its behind the scenes. You have to cut wages, your star players leave, you have to get excited about your new signing from Tranmere Leicester have a long journey ahead of them but having been there & made it back I'm not about to weep for any teams who think they are to big for it all ... give the auto windscreen trophy or whatever it's called nowadays a good go, could be your only chance of a good day out in quite a while !! 
