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JimmyJam

Promotion

By JimmyJam, in Leicester City Forum

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Foxhateram

Foxhateram

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I couldn't give two craps about the money of the club or the prem. That is not for us as supporters to worry about that is for the people who run this club to sort out. I want to go to the prem because;

Everyday is a cup final!

You are competing in the best league in the world.

Then you can talk to your friends about your club without them going "who".

You can boast and dream that you are the best team ever when you do one over the big 4.

For some reason every goal means more, a player becomes your weekly hero because he scored the equalizer against Arsenal in the 90th minute (HIGNETT!!!)

I just feel like the prem has this strange presence when you enter it, every success seems to mean that little bit more, just scoring a goal feels like an achievement.

Screams of "up the football league we go!" and memories of "We are top of the league say...............!" all those years ago when we touched the top of the prem.

I don't know i guess is just want to see our club be battling with the best, and for the first time in years i feel like we can realistically battle up their i really do.

In football you have to aim for the top, it isn't about getting promoted, it isn't about the bloody money, it isn't even about entertainment, its about passion and commitment and desire to be the best. It is about getting one over your mates club (lets face it everyone supports Manure these days) and boasting. It is about success and winning and those feelings we all feel after the final whistle blows. The cheers, the tears, the woahs and the singing, laughing and spending time with fellow fans your family.

I run a football team myself and we won the league last season, there is no promotion there is a trophy but who me and my team don't care about that. It is the fact that we were the best in our league, and the only team in our club to win something that year making us the best. We played the best football, we battled the hardest but most of all had such a massive desire to win that win is what we did.

foxhateram

marbelladave

marbelladave

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I know, but Sky epitomises it all for me. You could go back even further, and start blaming the players. If Jimmy Hill hadn't got rid of the wage cap, then footballers wouldn't be entertaining ideas of being paid obscene amounts of money. Etc.

Like I posted earlier, I'm a footballing Marxist.

It is interesting that this discussion has come up at a time that the EPL is beginning to show signs of decline. The recession has bitten into revenue and several premier league clubs including the once mighty Liverpool are in real danger of going bust. Even MunU the self styled biggest club in the country could be in trouble if they fail to maintain the level of income required to service it's enormous debt.

Also in footballing terms the focus is beginning to shift away from the EPL and towards other leagues, primarily La Liga. Lazy jounalism focuses on the top players at the big clubs and right now Real Madrid and Barcelona is where it is at.

maddog

maddog

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This isn't an easy dilemma, and it's annoying that everyone wants to turn it into a simple black and white "yes or no" issue.

Would I enjoy having to watch my team play on a Sunday, when public transport is limited, just because the opposition have played on Thursday night? No.

Would I enjoy not seeing City play on a Saturday at 3pm for a few weeks? No.

I was just thinking that we would have less kick off times moved due to TV if we were in the Premier League.

We've already had 3 Sky games, with 2 more coming soon, and surely a few more to come, i think we would be on much less on Sky if we were in the PL than riding high in the Championship.

I forgot about all the games we would have on a Sunday though due to Europe playing sides. But we would have less kick off times moved though due to Sky TV.

Daggers

Daggers

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There, I've drawn a line under the thread and the whole ridiculous concept of getting promoted this season.

Guest Bilo

Guest Bilo

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We're a play-off team at the very best to be honest. Unlikely to go up but I'll take that, as yesterday proved we are a million miles away from being ready for Premiership football at this stage.

davieG

davieG

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We're a play-off team at the very best to be honest. Unlikely to go up but I'll take that, as yesterday proved we are a million miles away from being ready for Premiership football at this stage.

Not that any team in this division is ready for Premiership football.

Guest Bilo

Guest Bilo

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Not that any team in this division is ready for Premiership football.

None are truly ready, but some are a damn sight closer than we are right now. West Brom and Newcastle being the two most obvious examples.

Vlad The Impaler

Vlad The Impaler

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None are truly ready, but some are a damn sight closer than we are right now. West Brom and Newcastle being the two most obvious examples.

I have to disagee there, we are not that far off West Brom and Newcastle at all, okay we lost to both of them but we didn't do ourselves any favours.

I'm still confident of top 6, and have said all season long we can make the automatics.

Look at what Pearson and his team have bought on a limited budget the last 2 years, imagine what they could do with quadrouple that amount if we were promoted.

foxaholic

foxaholic

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I've been five or six League 2 games this season and on average, it's four goals a game. Take a side like Rochdale, same division for so many years but the football they've have been playing the past three years is as good as anyone else in the Football League. Their fans appear quite happy with it.

Their gates suggest otherwise

Shrenchel

Shrenchel

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Promotion is still a possibility via the play offs.

Soccer however, is NOT a sport at professional lever. It one horrible big business.

Soccer is a sport played by 13-year-old American schoolgirls.

ozleicester

ozleicester

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I know, but Sky epitomises it all for me. You could go back even further, and start blaming the players. If Jimmy Hill hadn't got rid of the wage cap, then footballers wouldn't be entertaining ideas of being paid obscene amounts of money. Etc.

Like I posted earlier, I'm a footballing Marxist.

Jimmy bloody Hill, the cause of all of the footballing troubles in the world, always knew someone would spot it eventually.

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There, I've drawn a line under the thread and the whole ridiculous concept of getting promoted this season.

hmmm 2 lines on my screen, me thinks Daggers is serious now

Soccer is a sport played by 13-year-old American schoolgirls.

Until the Australian Soccer Federation changed to the Australian Football Federation 2 years ago, i was a teenage american girl, just wait till i tell my wife (pedo)

Oh, i hope we get promoted, coz then i will get to see my team live on TV EVERY MATCH. (i may just be being selfish though)

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Edmund

Edmund

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Just out of interest, are those who said they didn't want us to get promoted this season, still in the same frame of mind?

You lot must be pretty angry at the present situation. :fishing:

Heart-Shaped Fox

Heart-Shaped Fox

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There is only 2 reasons that I sort of dont want us to go up:

1. Ticket Prices - Away games would become far too expensive.

2. Less Games - I love midweek games, even if they are against shit like Posh, but we'd lose 8 games in the seasons total compared to teams in the division below. So almost no more midweek games.

But I just want to see what happens then worry about it when we get there!

MrSpaM

MrSpaM

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Just out of interest, are those who said they didn't want us to get promoted this season, still in the same frame of mind?

You lot must be pretty angry at the present situation. :fishing:

To be fair i have to put my hands up and admit i was sceptical about how our team would cope in the premiership, a lot of our players have stepped their game up recently though, and theirs a lot more positives

Lets just get their first though

5 more wins please :thumbup:

Daggers

Daggers

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Just out of interest, are those who said they didn't want us to get promoted this season, still in the same frame of mind?

You lot must be pretty angry at the present situation. :fishing:

Fuck me! Did I miss the news of our promotion?

Doesn't surprise me that they saw sense and promoted us early, what with us being massive and all.

MC Prussian

MC Prussian

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There is only 2 reasons that I sort of dont want us to go up:

1. Ticket Prices - Away games would become far too expensive.

2. Less Games - I love midweek games, even if they are against shit like Posh, but we'd lose 8 games in the seasons total compared to teams in the division below. So almost no more midweek games.

But I just want to see what happens then worry about it when we get there!

I'd rather see what happens should we get promoted to the Premier League, then worry about the consequences of relegation back to the Championship.

Nick

Nick

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I'd rather see what happens should we get promoted to the Premier League, then worry about the consequences of relegation back to the Championship.

Me too. I enjoy the ride.

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