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Now I need to stress that I am not getting carried away with our good form. In fact I would probably prefer us not to go up so we can keep building a team with confidence. I was thinking though if we did go up how do you think the Hoo's and Ferdinand would handle that. Would they try and spend some of the money that comes our way to give us a fighting chance to stay up or maybe use the money to get our financial house in order and then almost write off a season in the prem. We would get parachute payments if we went back down and maybe it would actually be better in the long run for us to almost write the season off and use the money to put as on a sound footing back in the championship before maybe being prepared better for any adventures in the top division another time
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hypothetical about promotion on 12:29 - Oct 22 with 1786 views
hypothetical about promotion on 12:29 - Oct 22 by BuckR
If we got back to the prem then Hoos & Ferdinand would't have a say! Tony & Co will be straight back to every game & calling all the shots
Whilst I do think Tony et al would become more visible if we went up (and that's a huge "if"), I don't think they would make the same mistake again.
It has cost them a huge amount financially and I can't see they would want to risk that happening again.
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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hypothetical about promotion on 13:14 - Oct 22 with 1709 views
Staying in the PL would need both a new ground and training facilities. As both are still a long way off I'd say take the money in order to spend on those and spend fk all on new players and come back down.
Yes, it would be an awful season but if that agenda was spelled out beforehand at least there won't (well, there still would be) be loads of moaning threads after each defeat and people saying we should be buying this, that & the other player.
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hypothetical about promotion on 13:23 - Oct 22 with 1684 views
hypothetical about promotion on 13:17 - Oct 22 by Juzzie
Staying in the PL would need both a new ground and training facilities. As both are still a long way off I'd say take the money in order to spend on those and spend fk all on new players and come back down.
Yes, it would be an awful season but if that agenda was spelled out beforehand at least there won't (well, there still would be) be loads of moaning threads after each defeat and people saying we should be buying this, that & the other player.
Maybe buy a PL standard keeper, that would be my only outlay and you never know, but if we only spent about 5 million and came down then I would live with that as it puts the club on a much better footing, what we did last time was not only unfair on the players that got us up none of the mercanaries gave a shit.
favourite cheese mature Cheddar. FFS there is no such thing as the EPL
One of those things to worry about if/when it happens but I think we'd do a better job than last time and avoid bankrupting ourselves again but who knows with Fernandes
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hypothetical about promotion on 13:49 - Oct 22 with 1622 views
I think it was the Reading game in February 2011 that had me convinced we'd get promoted that year, so a little way to go yet, but not _too_ far.
It would be hard not to get excited at the prospect of promotion again. For all the various reasons we all know the premiership to be fùcking horrific etc etc we are supporters after all and it would be quite perverse to start hoping we lose so as to avoid promotion. And it would perhaps mean holding am exciting young team together so there's that.
I think it would be highly unlikely that the powers that be take the money and let the club get relegated without a fight, the rewards for staying up in terms of brand exposure for Air Asia but also the club itself are too great. A sensible approach would be to invest where it's needed in a strategic way. Warburton has presumably won their trust sufficiently for him to splash a bit of cash wisely.
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hypothetical about promotion on 13:56 - Oct 22 with 1607 views
I think we'd permanently sign Wells and Hugill, and strengthen the spine of the team.
I think we'd sign a GK, 2 CBs, a RB, a CM and a CF. I'd expect these to be average prem/good championship players to give us a chance of staying up but also a good squad if we went down without being too costly.
The best thing we could do essentially bank the cash and try to come up again after the inevitable relegation. Do what Burnley did.
The club needs to build up its infrastructure, pay down some of its debt and build up a cash reserve.... oh and save for the all important new stadium.
hypothetical about promotion on 13:17 - Oct 22 by Juzzie
Staying in the PL would need both a new ground and training facilities. As both are still a long way off I'd say take the money in order to spend on those and spend fk all on new players and come back down.
Yes, it would be an awful season but if that agenda was spelled out beforehand at least there won't (well, there still would be) be loads of moaning threads after each defeat and people saying we should be buying this, that & the other player.
Not sure it would need a new ground as match day (stadium generated) revenue is less important in the Premier League where (apparently) you can play behind closed doors and still make money. An improved stadium (specifically improved concourse and hospitality, less so capacity) is more relevant to EFL sustainability where the main source of revenue isn’t sponsorship.
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hypothetical about promotion on 14:39 - Oct 22 with 1522 views
hypothetical about promotion on 13:17 - Oct 22 by Juzzie
Staying in the PL would need both a new ground and training facilities. As both are still a long way off I'd say take the money in order to spend on those and spend fk all on new players and come back down.
Yes, it would be an awful season but if that agenda was spelled out beforehand at least there won't (well, there still would be) be loads of moaning threads after each defeat and people saying we should be buying this, that & the other player.
It wouldn't need a new ground, Bournemouth have proved that.
The different strategies employed by the promoted teams are interesting this year. Norwich spent less than a million apparently, Villa spent North of £100m (a la Fulham) and Sheff Utd are in the middle.
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hypothetical about promotion on 14:42 - Oct 22 with 1519 views
hypothetical about promotion on 14:28 - Oct 22 by Hastings_Hoops
Not sure it would need a new ground as match day (stadium generated) revenue is less important in the Premier League where (apparently) you can play behind closed doors and still make money. An improved stadium (specifically improved concourse and hospitality, less so capacity) is more relevant to EFL sustainability where the main source of revenue isn’t sponsorship.
Yes, Bournemouth seem to manage OK in the short term with an 11k capacity. Not that they wouldn't be looking to get a bigger stadium at some point, but not a priority for them while the Prem cash is rolling in.
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hypothetical about promotion on 14:44 - Oct 22 with 1513 views
Might as well bring in a couple of decent prospects, hope for the best. Couldn't see them filling the team with horrendous has-been mercenaries willy nilly, though. I'm sure we've all learnt that lesson the hard way.
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hypothetical about promotion on 14:56 - Oct 22 with 1482 views
The difficult bit would be getting experience without the mercenary bit. A Ray Wilkins or Ryan Nelson character. This time we have a DOF and CEO to find the big personality and experience we would need.
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hypothetical about promotion on 15:15 - Oct 22 with 1454 views
hypothetical about promotion on 14:22 - Oct 22 by WestbourneR
The best thing we could do essentially bank the cash and try to come up again after the inevitable relegation. Do what Burnley did.
The club needs to build up its infrastructure, pay down some of its debt and build up a cash reserve.... oh and save for the all important new stadium.
Blow the thick end of £50 million on Chris Smalling, Ashley Young, Kurt Zouma, Olivier Giroud and a 4 year deal for Charlie Austin on 30k a week, get relegated crippled with huge wages and shite players and be worse off than we started.,....really anything other than that feels like progress in some way.
hypothetical about promotion on 14:28 - Oct 22 by Hastings_Hoops
Not sure it would need a new ground as match day (stadium generated) revenue is less important in the Premier League where (apparently) you can play behind closed doors and still make money. An improved stadium (specifically improved concourse and hospitality, less so capacity) is more relevant to EFL sustainability where the main source of revenue isn’t sponsorship.
Sadly LR is not fit for purpose anymore in terms of the facilities it needs to provide for PL football. It's changing rooms, officials rooms, Managers rooms, media facilities, press boxes, TV gantries & other camera placements, commentator & pundits boxes, match day corporate facilities, etc are all woefully out dated.
That's even before the considerations of the attending fans, who the PL & Sky clearly have no interest in, are taken into account.
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hypothetical about promotion on 17:03 - Oct 22 with 1263 views
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