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shepardo01

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Started the last two..... gutted to have to start this one....
Post Championship news/transfers/rumours here.
Let's go......
 

TomRad85

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Don't really want to predict anything until the squads of various teams start to take shape, but just for conversation and picking a few teams out i'll take a pop at the following
Us.. We'll be top 6 pretty much all season.
Ipswich.. Will win the league imo.
Leicester.. I hope they get punished properly, let's see what happens.
Southampton.. I know parachute teams are nearly always up there but there is something to the string eventually snapping on the yo-yo, they look a lot worse than the last time they came down. Probably will be up there but not ruling out shitting the bed.
Sunderland.. will lose to Sheffield United and be in the play offs again with us. Revenge?
Boro.. Need to sack Carrick or they will fall short again.
Birmingham.. Genuinely think they might try and cheat and spend more than they should hoping to go straight up. They need to do quite a bit for that to work, their squad isn't all that good and has strong mid-table vibes as it stands.
Wrexham.. Will sign enough to stay up, just. But they have a lot to do, their squad is way off Championship standard.
I'll include WBA just for you.. Can't see them doing much, depends how they invest from the sale of Fellows which is something they need to do now really.
 

no_loyalty

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Ruben Selles has left Hull after 6 months, pretty shocked at that. I wonder if he has another job lined up?
 

Garlana86

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Hopefully I'm wrong. But i don't feel like any bad teams entered the division for next season. Birmingham apparently have a season ticket waiting queue , no doubt after their success last season and huge investment, I also happen to live in bham and there is a buzz like never before with them and their owners and we all know about Wrexham and their investment/expectation. Id expect both to stay up and who knows even compete at the top end of the division.
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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Hopefully I'm wrong. But i don't feel like any bad teams entered the division for next season. Birmingham apparently have a season ticket waiting queue , no doubt after their success last season and huge investment, I also happen to live in bham and there is a buzz like never before with them and their owners and we all know about Wrexham and their investment/expectation. Id expect both to stay up and who knows even compete at the top end of the division.
This is simply a very hard league every season with not much to choose between most clubs. Wrexham I expect will find it considerably harder without being able to take the piss against their competitors and their dinosaur manager too.
 

quinn1971

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Norwich will be up there. Ipswich as well. Birmingham will do well. We will be up there if we keep most of this squad or if we take a risk and have a huge rebuild and King puts his trust in Lampard and Lampard gets it right whom he brings in we could go up automatically. I know @Saddlebrains has said not to expect too much comings and goings, I do feel though Wright and Simms and Sheaf may be gone in order to allow lampard to spend money on better. Upgrade those 3 alone and we probably have enough to challenge top 2 as Kitching and Thomas are getting better and more experienced and unexpect us to not leak so many goals next season.
Not sure you can play kitching & Thomas with that high line we’ll be playing, need a bit of pace there, but your right theyv’e both improved loads, quality over quantity this summer
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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Looks like Wrexham are going to splash the cash on some more old dead legs the agents must be rubbing their hands together.
 

Gint11

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Norwich will be up there. Ipswich as well. Birmingham will do well. We will be up there if we keep most of this squad or if we take a risk and have a huge rebuild and King puts his trust in Lampard and Lampard gets it right whom he brings in we could go up automatically. I know @Saddlebrains has said not to expect too much comings and goings, I do feel though Wright and Simms and Sheaf may be gone in order to allow lampard to spend money on better. Upgrade those 3 alone and we probably have enough to challenge top 2 as Kitching and Thomas are getting better and more experienced and unexpect us to not leak so many goals next season.

Not sure why you think, at this stage, that Norwich will be up there next season, or Birmingham. They’ve el. League 1, we did too. Having money is one thing. Good enough recruitment is another.
 

Gint11

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Just think Norwich have good players and if they start well I could see them challenging. Birmingham will spend big and inthink outspeed everyone and be there or thereabouts. Hope not obviously as while I used to be ambivalent towards them their fans have seemed to grow an almost Sunderland level obsession with us in recent years.
Yeah, you may be proven right but at this point, Norwich have been average. I’m going to reserve judgement until I see how squads are shaping up pre season.

Same with Birmingham and Wrexham. I know Ipswich did back to back but as we’ve seen with Pompey, Derby and Oxford, it’s a big step up.
 

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Yeah, you may be proven right but at this point, Norwich have been average. I’m going to reserve judgement until I see how squads are shaping up pre season.

Same with Birmingham and Wrexham. I know Ipswich did back to back but as we’ve seen with Pompey, Derby and Oxford, it’s a big step up.
A lot for Norwich will depend on Sargent if he is still there
 

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Here is another team I expect will make play offs.....Stoke City.
Just got a feeling King has some serious bad with Robins still judging by his comments both on the club site the other day and I'm his comments on final day in programme v Mboro and that he also shares my view Stoke will be a threat which obviously if they were would put scrutiny on him again if we were under performing for whatever reason.
After the usual slow Robins start will they keep patience
 

Sbarcher

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Must admit I thought Eccles had already gone - sure I saw him on the sofa in Gogglebox.
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

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He will get till Christmas and Robins seasons start after bonfire night so he probably will have started to turn round the inevitable bad start they have. Stoke i think will have a much bigger budget than us, is that right?
I’m f the story is true that Robins pushed to get BTA for us then they will need a big budget as his good footballer radar may be broken.
 

SkyBlueStallion_89

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Just been glancing through FLW and saw a few headlines about Hull, their owner is a hot headed trigger happy nutter, sacks Rossinor (who is a good coach) for Tim Walter then sacks him because he's shite, yet Walter was meant to be an upgrade, Persues Ruben Selles who's kept them up after all that turmoil then he gets sacked, now been linked with Will Still (who sounds like a generic name you start off with on Fifa career mode) and also Plymouth manager Miron Muslic.

That'll be a bad combo, Muslic who speaks his mind and an owner who's a proper hothead, man we're lucky our club ain't chaotic like their's with an owner like him
 

ptr

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Ipswich playing like a team who are about to have a difficult summer.

Delap gone, McKenna will go eventually. They’ll do well to keep hold of Cajuste and Hutchinson. Clarke will be the key man.
 

Hincha

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Ipswich playing like a team who are about to have a difficult summer.

Delap gone, McKenna will go eventually. They’ll do well to keep hold of Cajuste and Hutchinson. Clarke will be the key man.

Think they’ll be sound as long as they keep McKenna

Their reserve team turned us over in January
 

TomRad85

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True

But a front 4 of Clarke, Szmodicz, Philogene & Hirst before they even need to sign anyone is ridiculous
Oh yeh of course, i think they'll win the league personally but just had to point out the team we put out was pretty much set up to lose.
 

ptr

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True

But a front 4 of Clarke, Szmodicz, Philogene & Hirst before they even need to sign anyone is ridiculous
True, Smozdics and Philogene been injured as well tbf.

Hirst however is overrated from what I have seen.
 

TomRad85

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Not often i'll take the side of Sunderland but saw some Blues fans talking about signing Chris Rigg and i think the comments gave me brain rot, i mean, "growing global profile" ffs! These lot are genuinely the worst fans in the EFL, the most deluded, the most stupid and seem to be enjoying being some sort of Temu Wrexham. Being in the same league as them is going to be unbearable.

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Sky Blue Goblin

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Not often i'll take the side of Sunderland but saw some Blues fans talking about signing Chris Rigg and i think the comments gave me brain rot, i mean, "growing global profile" ffs! These lot are genuinely the worst fans in the EFL, the most deluded, the most stupid and seem to be enjoying being some sort of Temu Wrexham. Being in the same league as them is going to be unbearable.

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So if it got the right, he’ll leave a premiership team if they get promoted, to join a championship team who’s just got promoted because a few Americans like them? Fecking hell
 

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