| End of this season 17:51 - Feb 11 with 1248 views | kingslandstand1 |
How did we all feel now? Play offs could now be a possibility but do we want to go up with this squad?
Will SR spend the dosh to no doubt provide the improvements required to avoid another embarrassment of a season? |  |
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| End of this season on 18:05 - Feb 11 with 1210 views | grumpy |
Play Offs are a possibility.
This Squad would need strengthening and would need to spend big.
I would love to see us return but its fun winning a few games in the Championship
The Drama we have had this season is quite incredible. |  | | |
| End of this season on 07:12 - Feb 12 with 1022 views | saint22 |
| End of this season on 18:05 - Feb 11 by grumpy |
Play Offs are a possibility.
This Squad would need strengthening and would need to spend big.
I would love to see us return but its fun winning a few games in the Championship
The Drama we have had this season is quite incredible. |
I agree it’s a tough one but do we want to go up and get rolled over every week
These owners will never spend big or clever enough to keep us up
Winning and drama and no VAR makes for much more fun most weeks! |  | | |
| End of this season on 07:25 - Feb 12 with 1009 views | jopreston |
Don't think we will make the PO's. Mainly because I fully expect us to lose Ross Stewart to injury again and without him we are weaker for sure. We still have a lot of cracks being papered over. I expect we will finish around 9-12th. I actually think that might be better for us, to do a Leeds and rebuild a bit more in the summer so we can really have a go at winning the league next season, as Leeds did indeed do. Going up will mean a massive overhaul and unless SR have the investor they said they need, we will go right back down and have a torrid time as we did last season. |  | | |
| End of this season on 08:27 - Feb 12 with 966 views | PatfromPoole |
It is all about smart recruitment.
As showcased by Boscombe and also Sunderland.
Sunderland were a terrible side for much of last season, totally outplayed by both Coventry and Sheffield United in the play-offs.
I was convinced when they won the play-offs that they would end up with less points than us last season. Yet last night was their first home defeat of the season.
Ramsdale and Fernandes apart, we recruited really badly last season, and spunked a large part of our spend on keeping Harwood-Bellis and Downes, who are decent enough in the Championship but not good enough for the Prem sadly. |  |
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| End of this season on 08:44 - Feb 12 with 944 views | HytheFerrytales |
Play Offs this time are 50/50.
Not sure I can buy the idea that being in the Championship is "more fun". An extended period in Tier 2 sees the club's "GDP" shrink quite quickly as parachute money goes away and the club's profile fades making it even less attractive to coaches, investors and players alike.
Most on here will have played team sports of some sort where leagues are the norm. For my part I always wanted to go up a league ASAP.
So my vote is please get promoted...this year ideally but absolutely no later than next.
Turn and face the strange (D. Bowie ) | | | |
| End of this season on 11:24 - Feb 12 with 842 views | kernow |
If ( a big if) current form is maintained, Saints will finish in the top six. Thereafter it’s a bit of a lottery. | | | |
| End of this season on 15:04 - Feb 12 with 759 views | NYC_Saint |
| End of this season on 11:24 - Feb 12 by kernow |
If ( a big if) current form is maintained, Saints will finish in the top six. Thereafter it’s a bit of a lottery. |
Even bigger IF that we won the playoffs, this would represent the strongest negotiating position SR will be in to sell the club. | | | |
| End of this season on 15:26 - Feb 12 with 742 views | HytheFerrytales |
| End of this season on 15:04 - Feb 12 by NYC_Saint |
Even bigger IF that we won the playoffs, this would represent the strongest negotiating position SR will be in to sell the club. |
Exactly so. | | | |
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| End of this season on 15:41 - Feb 12 with 727 views | dirk_doone |
Promotion via the play offs is the best option available now. Even if we come back down again, it would bring money into the club and enable us to attract better players. We could then do what we should have done this time and win the Championship trophy for the first time in our history. If we don't get promoted, we'll be in a weaker position to do that. The goalkeeper situation is still a concern though and may stop us.
It's difficult to stop thinking what might have been if we'd started the season with Eckert and his 55% win rate vs Still's 25%, kept Ramsdale and used the Damion Downs money to buy one of the dozens of better centre forwards instead. We probably could have won that title this year. [Post edited 12 Feb 16:05]
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| End of this season on 17:05 - Feb 12 with 664 views | Tonyfromdk |
| End of this season on 15:41 - Feb 12 by dirk_doone |
Promotion via the play offs is the best option available now. Even if we come back down again, it would bring money into the club and enable us to attract better players. We could then do what we should have done this time and win the Championship trophy for the first time in our history. If we don't get promoted, we'll be in a weaker position to do that. The goalkeeper situation is still a concern though and may stop us.
It's difficult to stop thinking what might have been if we'd started the season with Eckert and his 55% win rate vs Still's 25%, kept Ramsdale and used the Damion Downs money to buy one of the dozens of better centre forwards instead. We probably could have won that title this year. [Post edited 12 Feb 16:05]
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I agree, but can’t you say that for most teams ? The “if only” question.
When you have a player who prefers sitting on the bench for a premier league team than play for us , then that’s his choice and for sure not the club | | | |
| End of this season on 17:10 - Feb 12 with 655 views | dirk_doone |
| End of this season on 17:05 - Feb 12 by Tonyfromdk |
I agree, but can’t you say that for most teams ? The “if only” question.
When you have a player who prefers sitting on the bench for a premier league team than play for us , then that’s his choice and for sure not the club |
Of course. It's just wishful thinking. Sometimes you look back and think, what if......
The biggest what if for me was: what if Kevin Keegan had stayed with us until the 1983-84 season? I really think we'd have won The Double.....and then, who knows?
Peter Shilton only signed for Saints because he thought he was joining Kevin Keegan to be part of the best team in England. Meanwhile, Keegan had just snuck out of the back door.
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| End of this season on 15:05 - Feb 13 with 465 views | DorsetIan |
The last season in the PL was soul destroying but there's no choice but to try to get promoted and, if necessary, suffer the same ignominy all over again. Simply because it extends the period of decent money coming in by another two years.
And who knows, Martin was a joke in the PL, as was Juric tbh.
If Eckert gets us up, I'd back him to do better than those clowns. | |
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| End of this season on 15:23 - Feb 13 with 442 views | franniesTache |
I'd like us to get promoted so the people i know who work for the club don't lose their jobs.
Saying that i don't think we'll make the play offs, and if we do i don't think we'll win them.
The squad is way too mentally weak for what's needed in my opinion, and i've seen nothing to suggest we can put together the kind of run that would be needed to do it.
If by some miracle we did i can't see anything other than relegation the season after too |  | | |
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