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Ketsbaia

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The way that Millwall, Blackburn, Norwich, West Brom, Preston and Watford have all collapsed at the same time, conveniently gifting the mackems a play-off spot, is beyond freakish.

 

Every result you don't want to happen keeps happening, it's quite remarkable.

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19 minutes ago, Ketsbaia said:

The way that Millwall, Blackburn, Norwich, West Brom, Preston and Watford have all collapsed at the same time, conveniently gifting the mackems a play-off spot, is beyond freakish.

 

Every result you don't want to happen keeps happening, it's quite remarkable.

Pleased for them. It’s nice to get the run if the green, especially when you really, really need it. 

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24 minutes ago, Ketsbaia said:

The way that Millwall, Blackburn, Norwich, West Brom, Preston and Watford have all collapsed at the same time, conveniently gifting the mackems a play-off spot, is beyond freakish.

 

Every result you don't want to happen keeps happening, it's quite remarkable.

It’ll be fascinating to see what their owner does if they go up. 
 

The Championship is an easy division to exist in. The jump to the Premier League is massive, and some of their League One clingers on will get massacred. 

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28 minutes ago, Ketsbaia said:

The way that Millwall, Blackburn, Norwich, West Brom, Preston and Watford have all collapsed at the same time, conveniently gifting the mackems a play-off spot, is beyond freakish.

 

Every result you don't want to happen keeps happening, it's quite remarkable.

They may well say the same about us.

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Keegans Export

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9 hours ago, Ketsbaia said:

The way that Millwall, Blackburn, Norwich, West Brom, Preston and Watford have all collapsed at the same time, conveniently gifting the mackems a play-off spot, is beyond freakish.

 

Every result you don't want to happen keeps happening, it's quite remarkable.

 

If they win their last two games they'll be on 71 points which (in recent seasons) is usually about right for 6th/7th so it's not been a huge outlier in that sense.

 

Obviously if they end on <70 points and still get 6th then that would buck the trend a bit.

 

 

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9 hours ago, Viana said:

It’ll be fascinating to see what their owner does if they go up. 
 

The Championship is an easy division to exist in. The jump to the Premier League is massive, and some of their League One clingers on will get massacred. 

There's a fair argument to say all of the 'league one clingers' have looked better in the Championship than they did in League One.

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I used to think there was a huge gulf between L1 and the championship. Turns out that there isn't; you can do pretty well with a few experienced players, blooding some young players and some clever loan moves.

 

The premier league is a bit different - as both our clubs have seen, it's thoroughly miserable just being cannon fodder and spending all season scanning the bottom half of the table. There's a fair case to be made that going up now could actually be a bad thing for Sunderland.

 

Then again, what with parachute payments if you get the chance to go up you've got to grab it, I suppose. They'd need serious investment to survive, though - be interesting to see what their owners would do, or whether they stick around.

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If Sunderland go up, they'll either have to do a Norwich or a Forest. Norwich accepted they'd come up "too early" and bought diligently with the realistic expectation of going straight back. They bounced back the following season. Forest, we all know just went nuts in the transfer market.

 

The Championship isn't the difficult league that it's made out to be though. If you have a half decent defence and a goal scorer, you've pretty much cracked it. 

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1 hour ago, The Prophet said:

If Sunderland go up, they'll either have to do a Norwich or a Forest. Norwich accepted they'd come up "too early" and bought diligently with the realistic expectation of going straight back. They bounced back the following season. Forest, we all know just went nuts in the transfer market.

 

The Championship isn't the difficult league that it's made out to be though. If you have a half decent defence and a goal scorer, you've pretty much cracked it. 

Why couldn't we do say, a Bournemouth? It's a complete myth that a club has to either accept going down and bank the cash or just bring in an entirely new squad.

 

There is numerous teams that have gone up and stayed up by just making decent signings in-line with how the owners want to run the club.

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2 minutes ago, TeddySAFC said:

Why couldn't we do say, a Bournemouth? It's a complete myth that a club has to either accept going down and bank the cash or just bring in an entirely new squad.

 

There is numerous teams that have gone up and stayed up by just making decent signings in-line with how the owners want to run the club.

 

It's not impossible if the club has the foundations of a Premier League squad in place. 

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