Fox92 Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 I'd love us to win the FA Cup. I want to see us win it. And it'd complete us domestically... League Cup, FA Cup, first division second division, third division, Community Shield... wouldn't look too bad would it.
Topman Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 only thing I would sacrifice for a relegation is to win champions league, we be championship of Europe and maybe champions of the world come next January, still be in champion league next season to depend our title all be it in championship but but we never gonna be in champions league again or at least for a long long time. but as I said only if we win it is would swap for relegation, forget the FA cup, champions league would top winning the league last season
Fox92 Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 But even though my heart says FA Cup... .the Championship is worse standard, more games... surely we want to see the club competing in the top tier with all it's "benefits". The FA Cup is there to win every year but we spent 12 years trying to get back into the PL.
Babylon Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 Win the cup without a doubt. I've seen us win: League One The Championship The Premier League The League Cup (x2) The only one missing is the FA Cup and I'm absolutely desperate for us to win that. There are fans of teams that go their whole lives without ever seeing their team with anything. To see your own team win everything there is to win in this country over the space of what 20 years (I'm cool with not having League Two), is something absolutely incredible. The fact that finishing 4th or staying up or seen as more important than actually winning something is a sad indictment of where football is at the moment.
Babylon Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 5 minutes ago, Fox92 said: The FA Cup is there to win every year but we spent 12 years trying to get back into the PL. How many years we spent trying to win the FA Cup? If this question was posed 25 years ago, the fact it's even up for discussion would have been laughed at. Money and premier league bullshit has warped what people now dream of.
cheshamfox17 Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 43 minutes ago, weller54 said: Derby reserves to be more precise... We're not going to win the FA cup as we'd have to beat the likes of Chelsea, Man City, Spurs, Arsenal and United who are all still in the competition!.. Ain't happening!!.. PL survival is far more important, Jesus can you imagine when the fixtures are out for next season and we're playing Scunthorpe away on a cold Tuesday night in February!..what a dramatic fall from grace after playing the likes of Sevilla in the CL this season.. Going back to Championship football is just a nightmare scenario!! Palace and Watford both got deep into the competition and only had to face one of those teams, Villa got to the final without playing any of them. Its not impossible that we could beat Millwall and draw the winner of Burnley vs Lincoln and make the semi without playing any of those above teams.
Voll Blau Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 Good news everyone, 59% of respondents to the poll will have their refs going spare come final day. Seriously despair at what modern football's turned our fanbase into. I've said it before and I'll say it again, none of you will be telling your grandchildren about what the club's bank balance was in 2017.
foxy boxing Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 we really need to stay in the Premier league and then try and go again. I wouldn't mind some stable years in the Premier league where we were mid table obscurity and then we could push again. these last few years have been so up and down that a few stable years wouldn't do us any harm
elvisfmcfly Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 19 minutes ago, Voll Blau said: Good news everyone, 59% of respondents to the poll will have their refs going spare come final day. Seriously despair at what modern football's turned our fanbase into. I've said it before and I'll say it again, none of you will be telling your grandchildren about what the club's bank balance was in 2017. You've got your opinion fair enough but it's ****ing annoying when you want us all to have the same one as you and try to argue as if those who would prefer us to stay up are wrong,you've had your say and vote now get over it.
Voll Blau Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 Just now, elvisfmcfly said: You've got your opinion fair enough but it's ****ing annoying when you want us all to have the same one as you and try to argue as if those who would prefer us to stay up are wrong,you've had your say and vote now get over it. I never said I want everyone to have the same opinion as me? Trying to be light-hearted about it FFS. Gonna be some survival party if you're leading the charge on the day we stay up. Good grief.
Tommeh Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 8 hours ago, BMR said: Staying up £120m Winning FA Cup £1.8m erm, no brainer! Quite easily the saddest post I've ever read on here.
jayfox26 Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 Last team to do this was Wigan and they haven't done so well recently. So for me, staying in the prem is the most important thing. We could have a go at the fa cup next season if we are in a safer place in the league (providing we stay up). The fa cup isn't that hard to win anymore, most of the top teams rotate their players as their priority is always Europe and the league. And I can't see Claudio taking the fa cup seriously when we are in a relegation battle and also have 2 games against sevilla.
Soar Fox Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 Jason Cundy & Andy Goldstein had an argument similar to this the other week on their show. Cundy's argument was that there's not enough prize money for the winners to make clubs want to prioritise the Cup. As a football fan I'm really not bothered about how much money you get for winning the cup. It's the Fa Cup, the memories & happiness that it would bring to me and thousands more is worth more than our owners getting millions of pounds that wouldn't mean anything to us personally.
ozvaldo Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 Would like to win in, but I'd rather stay up. I don't want to be a fan of the Champions of England who got relegated and won the FA Cup in the same season. It's embarrassing.
stretch1965 Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 Wonder how many players have release a clause should we get relagated. So we win the cup but could lose half/most of the squad and be left with the dead wood and have to build a team again. i would love to to win the cup don't get me wrong but staying up for the sake of what we are building to progress is paramount.
Arriba Los Zorros Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 Four words... Portsmouth and Wigan Athletic (**** that)
Voll Blau Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 6 minutes ago, ozvaldo said: Would like to win in, but I'd rather stay up. I don't want to be a fan of the Champions of England who got relegated and won the FA Cup in the same season. It's embarrassing. Who tells us it's embarrassing though? a) Banterfootylads who "support" clubs who win stuff every year which they watch from the comfort of their armchair while wanking off over the latest hilarious Paddy Power meme. b) Genuine supporters of clubs who, if pushed to it away from the comfort of their keyboards, would gladly take twice the amount of pain for even half the amount of success we've had/trophies we've won in the past 20 years. I'll happily take the 'shame' of being a pub quiz question forever in exchange for memories that last a lifetime ta.
walkerleeds Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 This group of players gave us a brilliant Championship campaign a few years ago and then the utterly unthinkable Premier League title last season; something I never thought I would see in my lifetime and still something I don't think i've come to terms with yet. The dream would be officially over if we were to be relegated and I don't want to wake up yet. They've given us so much joy over the past few years I could not bare the likes of Kasper, Wes and Vardy taking us down after last season. I would be devastated. Like it or not, it would taint what they've done for us in my opinion. For that reason, I would take survival over beating both Sevilla and Millwall to be honest.
Babylon Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 25 minutes ago, ozvaldo said: Would like to win in, but I'd rather stay up. I don't want to be a fan of the Champions of England who got relegated and won the FA Cup in the same season. It's embarrassing. Yeah, proper embarrassing winning the premier league and the FA Cup. How could we possibly cope with fans of clubs who have won feck all in the last 30 years laughing at us.
Arriba Los Zorros Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 I fully understand both points of view, but for me the joy and glory of winning the FA Cup would be dulled and disappeared if in 10 years we were to be in the position of say an Ipswich having struggled to get out the division for years and then focusing purely on staying up in the 2nd tier. Not dissimilar to what happened to us in the 2000s. If you ask fans of Pompey and Wigan if they'd have rather stayed up than won the FA Cup I reckon most would have gone for survival
dylanlegend Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 I wonder if Wigan fans did a similar poll a few years ago? Really it's a no brainer Now if it was UCL or relegation... that would be tough
Voll Blau Posted 10 February 2017 Posted 10 February 2017 8 minutes ago, Arriba Los Zorros said: I fully understand both points of view, but for me the joy and glory of winning the FA Cup would be dulled and disappeared if in 10 years we were to be in the position of say an Ipswich having struggled to get out the division for years and then focusing purely on staying up in the 2nd tier. Not dissimilar to what happened to us in the 2000s. If you ask fans of Pompey and Wigan if they'd have rather stayed up than won the FA Cup I reckon most would have gone for survival I actually spoke to a Wigan old boy when we played them away a couple of years ago who'd been watching them since they were a Cheshire League side in the 1960s. The pride in his face when he told me about his day at Wembley was a joy to behold. No way on earth he'd have traded that in for the other option.
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