The Championship...

[yorkie1999]

42 minutes ago, fox_favourite said:

Won’t be financially. 

It ain’t us fans that see any of it.

[hackneyfox]

48 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Might get to play Cov again 

How is that a positive? We have total bragging right over the cleftheadeddiagonalwalkingwindowlickers, why give them a chance? Look what happened with the trees in the cup.

 

Apologies, I detest co*

[The boy Linacre]

38 minutes ago, sishades said:

Players not throwing themselves onto the floor after encountering a slight breeze across their rosy cheeks.

Did you not see the housery of Blackburn, its down there too, but whilst there is breath!!!

WE MUST TAKE 3pts SATURDAY, its our first CUP FINAL, there may be others, mathematically still in our hands easily.

Sing yer hearts out for the lads!!!

[Tommy G]

3 minutes ago, hackneyfox said:

How is that a positive? We have total bragging right over the cleftheadeddiagonalwalkingwindowlickers, why give them a chance? Look what happened with the trees in the cup.

 

Apologies, I detest co*

It was a joke 

[ronnup]

Mid table for a few years then league 1

[BenTheFox]

I might start just enjoying it for what it is... days out with good mates. At least we won't get all the media scrutiny and I can maybe have a more relaxed attitude towards it, as long as we don't face a relegation battle in the championship, although that may not be beyond the realms of possibility. 

[Gubbins]

There is a LOT to hate about the Premier league. The ever disrupted ko times, The relentless cheating and timewasting, VAR, almost everything connnected with the entitled super league clubs, the blatant super league 6 bias in the media... I can probably go on. However if is still preferable to the horror show that is the Championship. Its only fun if your fighting to go up automatically. The rest of the division is a low quality grind with most of the division fighting for a play off place they don't deserve and won't get. If we go down though I doubt we'd even have that dubious pleasure with the squad we'd have left and it'd be back to the mid 00s era of lower table mediocrity and relegation scraps. Bloody horrible prospect!

[melrose]

Last chance on Saturday

[Nalis]

The Championship is fun when you are doing well in it after years of struggling. Kind of the opposite experience the other way around.

 

If we did go down, if its Southampton and one of Forest or Bournemouth joining us then its quite wide open, especially if Sheff Utd and Boro get promoted.

[huddersfieldfox]

It's getting out of the championship 😟 it's not that easy 

[tickler28]

Closer matches for me....Bristol City....hopefully Argyle and get to go to home and away Blackburn with my best mate who's a Rovers fan.

[Pliskin]

9 hours ago, ronnup said:

Mid table for a few years then league 1

I think league one is a certainty. I can’t see how we can shift an entire squad out give or take, a few players, run the training ground, repay the stadium expansion and pretty much put together a whole new squad with the financial constraints of the championship, paired with our apparent financial woes.

 

It just won’t happen, and we know how strict the club are about not branching FFP. It’s all a bit of a mess…. I can’t see how anything positive can come from relegation…. The parachute payments won’t really help, and not to mention the mega loss in revenue….. 

 

In short, I think we are buggared. 

[Daggers]

I’m fine with it, I’ve spent most of my adult life watching us in the second tier. European matches are a lot further away than Millllllllllllll, so there’s a green dividend to it too.

[HybridFox]

Thinking about who will stay

 

Iversen, KDH, Thomas, Hamza, Souttar, Kristiansen

 

Possibilities for Vardy, Ward, Amartey (who's gonna sign the latter two?!)

 

I imagine the likes of Braybrooke and McAteer will get more action. Hopefully Will Alves.

 

But it's going to be a significant clear out and equally investment needed in quality players to bring us back up.

 

It's a huge job and I think some are underestimating how tough it will be to bounce straight back (and sustainably to not become a yo-yo club again)

 

Imo the appointment we make now should be contingent for next season in the Championship. If we do get an interim we can't wait till the summer to look for a permanent manager. That work has to start now if we're to hit the ground running

[87fox]

10 hours ago, sishades said:

No streams to watch so the pain of watching them will be less.

You can watch every match on iFollow

[Guest Col city fan]

I’m fine with it personally. But it’s a long slog of nasty fixtures. You have to have both the squad depth and the fight to go and win at Stoke on a cold Tuesday night.

It means more 3pm ko’s though. Seeing a different set of players and seeing who steps us to shine across the season.

We’ll see. Personally I’ve not get given up hope that we’ll stay up.

[SpacedX]

3 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

 and the fight to go and win at Stoke on a cold Tuesday night.

 

A few years ago, didn't someone start a football cliché thread? Can't be arsed to find it. 

[oxtonfox]

Do you think we will carry on with stadium expansion should we end up in the championship? I’m sure there was an assumption we’d be in the premier league and using that dosh to subsidise the costs

[Guest Col city fan]

1 minute ago, Line-X said:

A few years ago, didn't someone start a football cliché thread? Can't be arsed to find it. 

Yeah I think it was started by one of the younger lads on FT, but to be fair, ‘you won’t win anything with kids’.

(Sorry, couldn’t think of any others yet, it’s early..)

[Daggers]

11 minutes ago, TK95 said:

Thinking about who will stay

 

Iversen, KDH, Thomas, Hamza, Souttar, Kristiansen

 

Possibilities for Vardy, Ward, Amartey (who's gonna sign the latter two?!)I

Jesus. Now I’m depressed.

[Paninistickers]

16 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

I think league one is a certainty. I can’t see how we can shift an entire squad out give or take, a few players, run the training ground, repay the stadium expansion and pretty much put together a whole new squad with the financial constraints of the championship, paired with our apparent financial woes.

 

It just won’t happen, and we know how strict the club are about not branching FFP. It’s all a bit of a mess…. I can’t see how anything positive can come from relegation…. The parachute payments won’t really help, and not to mention the mega loss in revenue….. 

 

In short, I think we are buggared. 

We ain't even got that. We've spent it already. 

 

Unless top funds 180m out his own pocket, or sells to someone who can the remaining option is we are no longer able to pay the playing staff which essentially means we'll be docked points or kicked out

[CosbehFox]

Heard someone in a happy mood on the way out going on about the awaydays next season - feckin hell understand it ain’t my place to moderate someone’s opinion. But I had to bite my lip. 
 

It’s fun and games on a piece of paper. But then you charged £30 + , games on even weirder times than the PL, your highlights are lost on some channel no one knows. But most of all, a far, far higher chance of Don ****ING Goodman commentating on you. 
 

Roll on Rotherham on a Tuesday night in a void of atmosphere 

[Foxes1]

24 minutes ago, TK95 said:

Thinking about who will stay

 

Iversen, KDH, Thomas, Hamza, Souttar, Kristiansen

 

Possibilities for Vardy, Ward, Amartey (who's gonna sign the latter two?!)

 

I imagine the likes of Braybrooke and McAteer will get more action. Hopefully Will Alves.

 

But it's going to be a significant clear out and equally investment needed in quality players to bring us back up.

 

It's a huge job and I think some are underestimating how tough it will be to bounce straight back (and sustainably to not become a yo-yo club again)

 

Imo the appointment we make now should be contingent for next season in the Championship. If we do get an interim we can't wait till the summer to look for a permanent manager. That work has to start now if we're to hit the ground running

You missed out Rudkin, & Whelan off the list as to who will stay.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

11 hours ago, Cosmik said:

No VAR, no glory hunters and no jumping through hoops for tickets.

Honestly after this season's "reforms", one of the only positives I can see is the club getting desperate to get fans through the doors again.

 

But I do remember how miserable that decade outside of the Prem was for the most part.

[ParkerPen]

1 hour ago, CosbehFox said:

Don ****ING Goodman 

 

The real reason teams don't want to get relegated.