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Once and got promoted.

Possibly. I'd say Leicester a bigger club though. Portsmouth only had 30 top flight seasons.

Coventry is a fair shout but we've gone full circle with them and Leicester the bigger club. Man City didn't have the best of starts that season but did win promotion. Wolves in mid 80s for sure.

'On the pitch'. Blackburn had one season in League One and comfortably won automatic promotion.

We've seen big clubs in 3rd tier but they normally are at top end going for promotion (Birmingham the other year, Sheffield Wednesday, Leicester last time around). But when was the last time a good sized clubs were in this kind of mess on the pitch?

Some pride salvaged second half at least

Have we won a game since losing the points. Any other team would have galvanised.

Yeah, the club needed a few years of mid table stability after the FA Cup win just to reset and calm everything. Did get a bit unfortunate with the Conference League facing Mourinho's Roma (look at the rubbish Palace have played this year). The Rodgers relegation year has undone all the good work before it. Everton would be in a similar mess had they gone down instead.

The O'Neill years were great. The downfall started with Rodgers. We should have been able to stabilise as a top half Premier League club, like a Brighton, we had a top half budget. But his ego sent the club on a tailspin. Spurs are suffering a similar decline now.

He's one of our own

Pressure off now. We'll win.

Well done the board. Just want to thank you all

It's the hope that kills

Spoke too soon. Thank god.

Right now yes.. this is shameful

It can't can it? Football gods do something. We were winning Premier League when they were heading for League Two at Northampton. This is heartbreaking

It's over

Anyone think West Brom points deduction will still keep us up?

Bromley away ole ole

10 years ago we were winning the Premier League and Coventry were being relegated from League One while playing in Northampton. I bet they had much hope then either

Gary Holloway.

Are the club too honest or too incompetent? I don't think it's too honest because we exploited a loophole last year to avoid a deduction. Everton exaggerated Covid losses to stay compliant and all kinds of other shenanigans. Eventually got done but only after staying up at our expense. Newcastle/Everton/Villa/Forest selling players to each other for inflated fees to cook the books. Villa/Chelsea selling their women's team. Chelsea selling hotels back to themselves. There's ways around the rules if you're creative and at least pay lip service to them.

Did well to get it to extra time. Southampton will know they've been in a game. We've made them work for it again tonight.

Play the kids.

Oh well. We go there at the weekend. How about another 9-0 on the way to Wembley?