What happens if we don't go up from here? (41 Viewers)

[Macca]

The plan has always been to try and get lucky in the play-offs one season with minimal investment.

Certainly how it felt in the summer. May still happen, I've given up predicting anything

 

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[Nick]

The thing is. If we just stopped fucking and when we take the lead and keep it solid we would have loads more points. We don't know how to deal with it.

Park the fucking bus.

 

[SkyblueTexan]

It would be shite for a year - then we’d be in the position Ipswich are in set up for multiple seasons

The argument of not getting promoted because it’ll be shit dumbfounds me. The alternative isn’t stay in the top 6 of the Championship forever. Teams who were pushing promotion for multiple years and failed either ended up in the shit (Derby, Sheff W) or regressed for years (Millwall, Bristol City)

We could try to be competitive like Sunderland when we go up and try to stay up. But at least try to get there in the first place, not think too far ahead and cock up a one in million chance.

 

[Otis]

The thing is. If we just stopped fucking and when we take the lead and keep it solid we would have loads more points. We don't know how to deal with it.

Park the fucking bus.

The Southampton game showed we are capable of digging in and grinding out results, with backs to the wall defending.

 

[Ccfcsj]

What happens?
Renew ST, another season of crushing disappointment, rinse repeat.

I wouldn't miss it for the world!

I'm feeling at the moment that if we blow it this season I'll give up on them as know it's not going to happen. But after 40+ years of supporting them I'm used to it.

I know that I'll be there again next season though as I'm too invested in the football club and couldn't walk away

 

[CovValleyBoy]

The thing is. If we just stopped fucking and when we take the lead and keep it solid we would have loads more points. We don't know how to deal with it.

Park the fucking bus.

Could of brought Lati on at 0-1 as an out & out sweeper & sacrificed Simms who was playing like Simms.

 

[Cally Fedora]

What happens if we don’t go up from here is that we endure a mountain of cretinous meltdowns on here and then simply begin next season in the championship.

 

[Skyblue Bangkok]

What happens if we don’t go up from here is that we endure a mountain of cretinous meltdowns on here and then simply begin next season in the championship.

Guess season ticket sales will be down. Will Lampard still be at the club ?

 

[SleepyGinger]

Lampard goes.
Huge squad turnover with many departures.
Season ticket sales will drop - probably by the thousands.

We are then in danger of having to calm things down and re-group as a club.

It would be a disaster

Now if we DID go up.... Well... The opposite!

At this point there’s nobody I’d be gutted to lose, would have said MVE previously but he’s been way off it and there’s a player in KKH.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

I see a lot of people saying EMC would go, who do you think would want him and would we get near to getting our money back as I can’t see it

 

[Sick Boy]

I see a lot of people saying EMC would go, who do you think would want him and would we get near to getting our money back as I can’t see it

I don’t see why he would do. He’s not going to get interest from the PL.

 

[SleepyGinger]

I see a lot of people saying EMC would go, who do you think would want him and would we get near to getting our money back as I can’t see it

I think he would stay but we could double our money easily

 

[Skyblue Bangkok]

Guess season ticket sales will be down. Will Lampard still be at the club ?

We were hearing a lot of praise about how good the our coaching staff were before that's all gone a bit silent.

 

[CCFCAnalysis]

The reality:

We lose the loans. Dovin and Markelo come in.

MVE goes, KKH comes in.

We sell others for big fees, and we reinvest.

Lampard gets poached, Edwards steps up.

It’s all in place for another push


That’s why it such a catch 22 for DK right now. He’s rolls the dice too much right now on short term options , and that reinvestment money is suddenly already eaten up.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

The reality:

We lose the loans. Dovin and Markelo come in.

MVE goes, KKH comes in.

We sell others for big fees, and we reinvest.

Lampard gets poached, Edwards steps up.

It’s all in place for another push


That’s why it such a catch 22 for DK right now. He’s rolls the dice too much right now on short term options , and that reinvestment money is suddenly already eaten up.

Thomas' court date could be in the summer though? Could we be missing him for part of the year?

 

[SleepyGinger]

The reality:

We lose the loans. Dovin and Markelo come in.

MVE goes, KKH comes in.

We sell others for big fees, and we reinvest.

Lampard gets poached, Edwards steps up.

It’s all in place for another push


That’s why it such a catch 22 for DK right now. He’s rolls the dice too much right now on short term options , and that reinvestment money is suddenly already eaten up.

Yeah I don’t think it’s shit or bust this year

 

[shmmeee]

Keep getting us in play off contention and hope one year it comes off? Don't know to be honest

That’s quite literally what he’s said the strategy is. If we don’t go up this year though we’ll have made 3/5 playoffs and not gone up so

 

[shepardo01]

The reality:

We lose the loans. Dovin and Markelo come in.

MVE goes, KKH comes in.

We sell others for big fees, and we reinvest.

Lampard gets poached, Edwards steps up.

It’s all in place for another push


That’s why it such a catch 22 for DK right now. He’s rolls the dice too much right now on short term options , and that reinvestment money is suddenly already eaten up.

It is possible that Wrexham, Birmingham, Burnley, Wolves, and West Ham....plus Southampton still with para cash will be in the Championship next season.
A team consisting of KKH, Dovin, Kitching, Lati, Allen etc gets NOWHERE near top six.

 

[shepardo01]

Thomas' court date could be in the summer though? Could we be missing him for part of the year?

What is this? Are you able to expand?

 

[Sick Boy]

That’s quite literally what he’s said the strategy is. If we don’t go up this year though we’ll have made 3/5 playoffs and not gone up so

I think we'd have another 2 years left still as it started after the Luton defeat.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

What is this? Are you able to expand?

The poster made a thread suggesting Thomas was out previously due to being caught drink driving.

 

[shepardo01]

The poster made a thread suggesting Thomas was out previously due to being caught drink driving.

Oh. Ok. Cheers (oops maybe cheers is the wrong thing to say -edit)

 

[SeaSeeEffCee]

The reality:

We lose the loans. Dovin and Markelo come in.

MVE goes, KKH comes in.

We sell others for big fees, and we reinvest.

Lampard gets poached, Edwards steps up.

It’s all in place for another push


That’s why it such a catch 22 for DK right now. He’s rolls the dice too much right now on short term options , and that reinvestment money is suddenly already eaten up.

Who is poaching a manager who blew a 13 point lead and was unable to turn it around with 16 games left to play?

 

[shmmeee]

I think we'd have another 2 years left still as it started after the Luton defeat.

Sounds like me when the kids beat me best 2/3 in Mario Kart.

 

[CCFCAnalysis]

Who is poaching a manager who blew a 13 point lead and was unable to turn it around with 16 games left to play?

People who see the bigger picture of a guy who took over a side who were in a relegation battle, and got them into the play-offs two years on the trot.

Despite having a bottom half wage budget,


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[SeaSeeEffCee]

People who see the bigger picture of a guy who took over a side who were in a relegation battle, and got them into the play-offs two years on the trot.

Despite having a bottom half wage budget,


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Is there any actual evidence that we have a bottom half wage budget besides those bullshit sites that say we have lower wages than the likes of Oxford and Portsmouth?

Doubt there are many teams who have spent as much on their squad as we have besides parachute teams

 

[shmmeee]

People who see the bigger picture of a guy who took over a side who were in a relegation battle, and got them into the play-offs two years on the trot.

Despite having a bottom half wage budget,


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We were not in a relegation battle FFS

 

[chiefdave]

The reality:

We lose the loans. Dovin and Markelo come in.

MVE goes, KKH comes in.

We sell others for big fees, and we reinvest.

Lampard gets poached, Edwards steps up.

It’s all in place for another push


That’s why it such a catch 22 for DK right now. He’s rolls the dice too much right now on short term options , and that reinvestment money is suddenly already eaten up.

If we've got players who will go for big fees in the event we fail to get promotion is it really rolling the dice to much to spend some of the projected income now. You're essentially just acting 6 months early and getting players who will be playing next season now.

 

[CCFCAnalysis]

We were not in a relegation battle FFS

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[Ccfcisparks]

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17 games in LOL

 

[Cally Fedora]

We were in that battle. Which is why I cannot see why people expected us to eat this league alive

 

[Ccfcisparks]

We were in that battle. Which is why I cannot see why people expected us to eat this league alive

People expected better than 1 point a game form

 

[Liquid Gold]

Nobody would poach Lampard after that bottle.

I also thing all our players are knocking a few million off their fees at the moment. Who is looking at this bunch of bottle jobs and thinking they need to blow a load of money on them.

 

[SBT]

Slightly odd that the same people crying out for massive squad turnover in the transfer window thread are in here fretting about massive squad turnover in this one.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Nobody would poach Lampard after that bottle.

I also thing all our players are knocking a few million off their fees at the moment. Who is looking at this bunch of bottle jobs and thinking they need to blow a load of money on them.

Lampard would walk