Promotion

[Fosse Boy]

I knew someone was gonna post this and I understand what youre saying but I cant stand another season of getting thrashed every week either. Plus the WS will be even more full of glory hunting tossers wholl start booing at the drop of a hat. Plus all the other stuff Lisa said

If we did go up I think Id just stick to away games

If they didn't bankrupt us all first...

[Shrenchel]

Is anyone seriously saying that they wouldn't swap places with Burnley this season?

In some ways, in others not. Think they're next away game is against West Ham where a ticket will probably cost about £40 with no concessions apart from kids and pensioners. I personally couldn't afford that right now/bring myself to pay that for 90 minutes of football. Going to away games is the thing I love about following Leicester, being able to watch the highlights on match of the day isn't much of a trade off.

[Guest]

Well obviously the price of tickets is a bit off putting but they might go up next season whether we go up or not.

Imo I can't see the point of supporting any sports team hoping for mediocrity

If football hadn't sold its soul, then I would agree. However, maintaining a healthy position in this league isn't exactly failure.

[haraven]

I like your positive attitude - negative attitude gets you no where. I do also think we can compete for the 6th or maybe even 5th place this season. But like Lisa says, we're no where near a survival in PL the year after. Then again I hear the money will pour down if we make it up there, so maybe it's worth the sneak peak up in PL.

[Daggers]

I think we will win the league by 17 points and Matty Fryatt will be beatified by the Pope, on the pitch.

[lou]

I think we will win the league by 17 points and Matty Fryatt will be beasted by the Pope, on the pitch.

:eek:

[maddog]

Theres no reason we can't challenge for promotion, and i think we have just as much chance as any side does.

This League is really poor quality, you can't pick out the sides who will finish in the top six like you can with the PL. Any side can lose to any side, and only the 2 most consistent sides come the end of the season will go up. We have a tough defence and have lost the least games so far, so we could be one of those sides.

I'm sure NP, MM and the players have realised we could be playing Premier League football next season, we may aswell take our chance this year and go for it.

Pre-season i wouldn't have even been thinking about promotion, but we are almost one third into the season, are 5th place, and could be running away with the League.

[Vlad The Impaler]

Don't see no reason why we can't aim for the automatics, yes it's unlikely but look at Stoke.

There's a real feeling of optomism around the club now and the last time I felt that we got promoted.

At the end of the day we can beat anyone in this league.

And about surving in the premiership, let's not get ahead of ourselves but just look at what Pearson has done with around 3 mil, besides a few of our players could hack it at that level, Tunchev, Wellens, Hobbs, Weale and Gallagher come to mind but I can see N'Guessan and Kermogant progressing into top players, likewise with Morrison.

[maddog]

Is teams like Stoke and Hull can survive in the PL, theres no reason we can't.

Not all the teams in the Premiership are that good, i would say we could beat plenty of them tomorrow morning

Wigan

Burnley

Bolton

Fulham

Everton

Birmingham

Blackburn

Wolves

Hull

West Ham

Portsmouth

Theres your current bottom half in the PL, i'm not scared of any of them.

Every team is so similar ability wise in the Championship, there are such fine margins between promotion or not.

[flanimal]

I don't understand this "I'd rather Leicester stayed in the Championship" stuff. I'd rather Leicester were losing 3-0 to Man Utd than scraping a 1-0 against an average Reading team or squaring 0-0 against a crap Derby side. If we don't want them to get promoted, what are you even cheering the team for? What is the point of even wanting a win?

And the talk of "we're not good enough to be the Premier League at the moment", well, of course we arn't. There would be a pre-season in the space of promotion and the first game, and in that time the manager would buy players who were good enough. If you observe Stoke, most of their team is quite average, but they have a work ethic and utilise tactics that get them results, there is no reason a Leicester team couldn't do the same.

[Vlad The Impaler]

I don't understand this "I'd rather Leicester stayed in the Championship" stuff. I'd rather Leicester were losing 3-0 to Man Utd than scraping a 1-0 against an average Reading team or squaring 0-0 against a crap Derby side. If we don't want them to get promoted, what are you even cheering the team for? What is the point of even wanting a win?

And the talk of "we're not good enough to be the Premier League at the moment", well, of course we arn't. There would be a pre-season in the space of promotion and the first game, and in that time the manager would buy players who were good enough. If you observe Stoke, most of their team is quite average, but they have a work ethic and utilise tactics that get them results, there is no reason a Leicester team couldn't do the same.

Top Post

[Rich Fox]

Whe you play as bad as we did against Reading and still win and have more clear chances to score it is nailed on that we will be promoted to the premiership by the end of march at the latest as champions and then will finish in the top four and win the premiership in the following year.

[Tommeh]

Word. Although the feeling of getting promoted would be immense, the reality of being in the prem would be shit.

Agreed.

Doing both play-off games would be incredible, win or loose in my opinion, to see the walkers properly decked out in a game which means everything. Of course I'd go on a 3 day party in London do the game and celebrate for a good week if we did go up at Wembley....

But in reality thinking this time next year we'll have to pay betwen £30 and £55 for away tickets with very few clubs doing concessions is extremely depressing.

Still lets just enjoy the season and see where we end up. Theres certain signs that we can compete in the upper 3rd in the league but promotion will not be mentioned with any seriousness unless we find ourseles in a similar position to this in April.

[Guest]

People who think that being in the PL suddenly gets you pots of money are very much mistaken. Pompey are struggling financially, Hull are rumoured to be in the "Brown stuff" ( © Bilo). Even the top teams are heavily in debt, and would be screwed if their backers pulled out.

If you look around the Championship, the teams that are financially in the mire are teams that have been in the Premiership. Although this season seems to be different, teams that have been relegated to the Championship have struggled, and even relegated again; the teams relegated to League One last season were all recently in the Premiership.

So I personally find the whole PL thing a bit of a poisoned chalice.

[Daggers]

Is teams like Stoke and Hull can survive in the PL, theres no reason we can't.

Can you hear that sound?

It is slightly similar to the one I used to make as a kid when pretending the Messerschmitt ME109 in my right hand had just been totally fucked by the Supermarine Spitfire in my left hand. It was plummeting towards Earth.

To its doom.

Vor yu Hanz, ze var ist over, ja?!

***BOOM***

Hull could go out of business if they are relegated, auditor Deloitte has warned in the club's financial results.

[maddog]

Can you hear that sound?

It is slightly similar to the one I used to make as a kid when pretending the Messerschmitt ME109 in my right hand had just been totally fucked by the Supermarine Spitfire in my left hand. It was plummeting towards Earth.

To its doom.

Vor yu Hanz, ze var ist over, ja?!

***BOOM***

Hull could go out of business if they are relegated, auditor Deloitte has warned in the club's financial results.

[jonthefox]

I think we will win the league by 17 points and Matty Fryatt will be beatified by the Pope, on the pitch.

bullshit. fryatts a scientologist isnt he..

[Raj]

Id settle for a decent mid table position this year.

next year when we have Davids,Figo and Zidane is when we piss on this League....

[Corky]

I don't understand this "I'd rather Leicester stayed in the Championship" stuff. I'd rather Leicester were losing 3-0 to Man Utd than scraping a 1-0 against an average Reading team or squaring 0-0 against a crap Derby side. If we don't want them to get promoted, what are you even cheering the team for? What is the point of even wanting a win?

And the talk of "we're not good enough to be the Premier League at the moment", well, of course we arn't. There would be a pre-season in the space of promotion and the first game, and in that time the manager would buy players who were good enough. If you observe Stoke, most of their team is quite average, but they have a work ethic and utilise tactics that get them results, there is no reason a Leicester team couldn't do the same.

I wouldn't. I'd rather see my side competing and winning more matches than we lose.

[Guest]

I'm blaming this thread if we lose tomorrow

[dandannieldanok]

To all those not wanting us to be in the Premier League: What's the point of the club existing if it's not striving to be the best it can be? I know the Premier League has changed vastly and I do take on board some of the concerns, but the best times that this club have had have been in the Premier League/Old First Division. The reality is that the Championship is almost becoming Premiership-lite with increasing money and new stadia, so then what, get relegated again??

[Tommy G]

I think we will finish 9/10th. We will see how resiliant we are and if we can pull off results at home to teams such as WBA and Newcastle and Boro in the coming months then who knows. The way we played against Derby sums up we wont be staying in the top 6 much longer.

I think we will loose tomorrow aswell which will bring us down to about 8/9th if the teams around us win on saturday

[TrickyTrev]

I don't understand this "I'd rather Leicester stayed in the Championship" stuff. I'd rather Leicester were losing 3-0 to Man Utd than scraping a 1-0 against an average Reading team or squaring 0-0 against a crap Derby side. If we don't want them to get promoted, what are you even cheering the team for? What is the point of even wanting a win?

And the talk of "we're not good enough to be the Premier League at the moment", well, of course we arn't. There would be a pre-season in the space of promotion and the first game, and in that time the manager would buy players who were good enough. If you observe Stoke, most of their team is quite average, but they have a work ethic and utilise tactics that get them results, there is no reason a Leicester team couldn't do the same.

I agree, seems a fashionably cool thing to say but I have a hard time thinking people actually believe it.

The Championship is a horrible league for starters, absolutely no football is played by 90% of teams and most games are decided by corner and free-kicks. When people say 'anyone can beat anyone,' they don't realize its because most week both teams are so shite at going forward in general play that the game is reduced to the lottery of set pieces. All the stadiums are empty and there is only ever any atmosphere in away sections of the stadiums, oh I forgot that full stadiums had less atmosphere due to the presence of 'plastics' . There are also too many mid week games for my liking, which I have great difficulty going to.

But most importantly getting to the Premiership gives you a chance of success! If you assemble squad capable of competing to stay up in the premier league you also assemble one far more likely of going deeper in the cup competitions and you also have the opportunity for famous victories against the big boys. If you're not seduced by that then I am not really sure what you are doing following a football club

[lou]

I agree, seems a fashionably cool thing to say but I have a hard time thinking people actually believe it.

The Championship is a horrible league for starters, absolutely no football is played by 90% of teams and most games are decided by corner and free-kicks. When people say 'anyone can beat anyone,' they don't realize its because most week both teams are so shite at going forward in general play that the game is reduced to the lottery of set pieces. All the stadiums are empty and there is only ever any atmosphere in away sections of the stadiums, oh I forgot that full stadiums had less atmosphere due to the presence of 'plastics' . There are also too many mid week games for my liking, which I have great difficulty going to.

But most importantly getting to the Premiership gives you a chance of success! If you assemble squad capable of competing to stay up in the premier league you also assemble one far more likely of going deeper in the cup competitions and you also have the opportunity for famous victories against the big boys. If you're not seduced by that then I am not really sure what you are doing following a football club

Believe what you like. I mean everything I say - At 42 years old Ive gone way past saying things to get approval or to follow a "trend"

[Ford Super Sunday]

Anyone else like me just really not bothered.

If we go up, brilliant, get to play the cream of the crop, might lose every week, but we'll be in the best league in the world, with increased coverage and exposure, being talked about and noticed, and some of the finest players in the world visitng our ground

If we stay in this division for a few years, equally brilliant. Solids finishes, competitive matches, good, affordable away days, winning and seeing us go undefeated regularly, 3pm kick offs, being ignored, no drama, mediocraty.

I don't care which of those teirs in the football pyramid we play in... so long as we're playing IN them.