The Championship Thread 2023/2024

[goose2010]

Rooney taking the Birmingham job with O'Shea and Ashley Cole his coaches. 

 

Could be a good one for Birmingham 

[Happy Fox]

3 minutes ago, goose2010 said:

Rooney taking the Birmingham job with O'Shea and Ashley Cole his coaches. 

 

Could be a good one for Birmingham 

Bit surprising to be honest Eustace has done a good job.

[UniFox21]

9 minutes ago, goose2010 said:

Rooney taking the Birmingham job with O'Shea and Ashley Cole his coaches. 

 

Could be a good one for Birmingham 

But they're 6th with their current set up and playing some good stuff. 

Don't see the sense personally.

[Bert]

1 hour ago, StanSP said:

Happily settle for another great escape and then a title win in 25/26. Nice way to honour 10 years on after our first. 

 

Nothing wrong with that expectation

Haha. We would all take that. 
 

But after a season that seems like it’s going to consist of dominant performances and wins, I’m dreading 8 games in with more defeats than wins and “Maresca out” “this is shit” 

[purpleronnie]

12 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

But they're 6th with their current set up and playing some good stuff. 

Don't see the sense personally.

Its a very Birmingham thing to do, just as things are going well, change it all.

[Lambert09]

44 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

Its a very Birmingham thing to do, just as things are going well, change it all.

it’s the equivalent of when we were doing well and the new owners wanted a name so went for sven…. if that’s what’s happening anyway, there was talk about him wanting to go to rangers 

[Langston]

1 minute ago, Lambert09 said:

it’s the equivalent of when we were doing well and the new owners wanted a name so went for sven…. if that’s what’s happening anyway, there was talk about him wanting to go to rangers 

Sven was after Sousa when we’d done terribly! Getting the latter in in the first instance was the mistake.

[The Bear]

Rooney will never be a top manager. He's too thick.

[The Doctor]

4 hours ago, Fox85 said:

Leeds won't be a big test they are shite 

Started poorly with a lot of players looking elsewhere, but Farke sets them up well and is a good championship manager 

[Lionator]

Imagine Enzo v Rooney. Eustace will have a better managerial career than Rooney, it’s a silly decision.

[LCFCJohn]

1 hour ago, purpleronnie said:

Its a very Birmingham thing to do, just as things are going well, change it all.

A number of years ago, they got rid of Gary Rowett when they were around the playoffs. Just looked who for and it was Gianfranco Zola who lasted 4 months and they were flirting with relegation for a while thereafter.

 

Lets hope this backfired too and they finally get flushed to L1!

[Babylon]

Just realised Sunderland who are fourth are as close to 22nd place and the relegation places as there are us…. 11 points 

[STEVIE B]

1 hour ago, The Bear said:

Rooney will never be a top manager. He's too thick.

Tbf, there aren’t many footballers, or ex footballers that hold a Mensa membership. 

[1972 Fox]

2 hours ago, Happy Fox said:

Bit surprising to be honest Eustace has done a good job.

Eustace after a 2-0 defeat to "probably the best squad in the league " in September. Watford currently sit in 20th place.

[Koke]

1 hour ago, The Bear said:

Rooney will never be a top manager. He's too thick.

 

I agree. But Birmingham isn't a top job so that's about his level.

[Lambert09]

1 hour ago, Langston said:

Sven was after Sousa when we’d done terribly! Getting the latter in in the first instance was the mistake.

good point! I’d erased sousa from my memory 😅

[lnkstern]

Stats for the previous 19 Championship seasons (from Wikipedia).

 

- Safety from relegation in a typical season: 50 points.  In an outlier season: 53 points.  Leicester City were relegated in 2008 with 52 points.

 

- Automatic promotion (top two) in a typical season: 90 points.  In an outlier season: 93 points.

 

Leicester City after a quarter (1/4, 25%) of the season (approximately).

 

- 30 points

   -- 3/5 (60%) of the points necessary to guarantee safety.

   -- 1/3 (33%) of the points necessary for automatic promotion.

 

We are well ahead of the required points rate for automatic promotion.

 

To me, the important bit is that we have a nice points cushion.  We all know some sort of rough patch will show up, whether because of injury, fatigue, or other circumstance.  The bigger the cushion we can accumulate now, the less we have to fret over occasional dropped points.

 

We know we won't finish the season with 120 points, but 90 points seems eminently attainable.  I will be happy with simply getting promoted.

Edited 8 October 2023 by lnkstern

[JimJams]

49 minutes ago, lnkstern said:

We know we won't finish the season with 120 points

Exactly.  It'll be closer to 135 points.

[Jobyfox]

1 hour ago, lnkstern said:

Stats for the previous 19 Championship seasons (from Wikipedia).

 

- Safety from relegation in a typical season: 50 points.  In an outlier season: 53 points.  Leicester City were relegated in 2008 with 52 points.

 

- Automatic promotion (top two) in a typical season: 90 points.  In an outlier season: 93 points.

 

Leicester City after a quarter (1/4, 25%) of the season (approximately).

 

- 30 points

   -- 3/5 (60%) of the points necessary to guarantee safety.

   -- 1/3 (33%) of the points necessary for automatic promotion.

 

We are well ahead of the required points rate for automatic promotion.

 

To me, the important bit is that we have a nice points cushion.  We all know some sort of rough patch will show up, whether because of injury, fatigue, or other circumstance.  The bigger the cushion we can accumulate now, the less we have to fret over occasional dropped points.

 

We know we won't finish the season with 120 points, but 90 points seems eminently attainable.  I will be happy with simply getting promoted.

We’ve made the best start to a Championship season since Sheffield United in 2005/06. They finished with 90 points that season in second place. They were 16 points behind Reading who finished first on 106, but that in itself was a record

[Free Falling Foxes]

4 hours ago, goose2010 said:

Rooney taking the Birmingham job with O'Shea and Ashley Cole his coaches. 

 

Could be a good one for Birmingham 

I expect the Brum fans will give it to JV even more when we play them.

Vardy hat trick incoming....

Edited 8 October 2023 by Free Falling Foxes

[Guest Bilo]

3 hours ago, STEVIE B said:

Tbf, there aren’t many footballers, or ex footballers that hold a Mensa membership. 

Iain Dowie has a masters in engineering and Frank Lampard has an IQ that would qualify him for Mensa, and both are bloody awful managers.

[Number 6]

https://twitter.com/The_RUFC/status/1711078825822437703?t=WUEVkJNGLTq_cXgJKZCDAQ&s=19

[st albans fox]

2 hours ago, lnkstern said:

Stats for the previous 19 Championship seasons (from Wikipedia).

 

- Safety from relegation in a typical season: 50 points.  In an outlier season: 53 points.  Leicester City were relegated in 2008 with 52 points.

 

- Automatic promotion (top two) in a typical season: 90 points.  In an outlier season: 93 points.

 

Leicester City after a quarter (1/4, 25%) of the season (approximately).

 

- 30 points

   -- 3/5 (60%) of the points necessary to guarantee safety.

   -- 1/3 (33%) of the points necessary for automatic promotion.

 

We are well ahead of the required points rate for automatic promotion.

 

To me, the important bit is that we have a nice points cushion.  We all know some sort of rough patch will show up, whether because of injury, fatigue, or other circumstance.  The bigger the cushion we can accumulate now, the less we have to fret over occasional dropped points.

 

We know we won't finish the season with 120 points, but 90 points seems eminently attainable.  I will be happy with simply getting promoted.

I think the point is that the sooner it seems pretty much certain that we will be promoted, the sooner we can start proper negs on transfer targets 

[Lionator]

15 minutes ago, Number 6 said:

https://twitter.com/The_RUFC/status/1711078825822437703?t=WUEVkJNGLTq_cXgJKZCDAQ&s=19

Christ what a prat 

[Leicesterpool]

Rooney to Sheffield Wednesday still possible aswell?