Slowly starting to look forward to the Championship again

[W12_Ranger]

Absolutely fallen out of love with football the past couple of seasons but watching the last day of Championship football reminded me what an exciting league it can be.

I really want to see some early activity in the transfer market to justify getting an ST and more so moving players on and to know who we will be holding onto. There is only one way to play this and that's the way Warnock did and get in early make your signings and sort the squad out. We will have money, have our pick of the best players in the Championship, with the strongest squad in the league and a manager everyone wants play for.

All this talk of we might struggle it won't be easy is a smokescreen, we dominated the Championship with a far lesser squad. Move the bad eggs on, harmonise and galvanise the squad quickly, make half a dozen solid signings willing to graft for the club and lets go.

Feeling quietly confident at this stage that the 'old lady' maybe making a return to our trophy cabinet within the next year. All the worst case scenarios are played out through the media but truth is there really is no excuse for us not getting promoted at the first attempt.

[OneEyedWilly]

Absolutely fallen out of love with football the past couple of seasons but watching the last day of Championship football reminded me what an exciting league it can be.

I really want to see some early activity in the transfer market to justify getting an ST and more so moving players on and to know who we will be holding onto. There is only one way to play this and that's the way Warnock did and get in early make your signings and sort the squad out. We will have money, have our pick of the best players in the Championship, with the strongest squad in the league and a manager everyone wants play for.

All this talk of we might struggle it won't be easy is a smokescreen, we dominated the Championship with a far lesser squad. Move the bad eggs on, harmonise and galvanise the squad quickly, make half a dozen solid signings willing to graft for the club and lets go.

Feeling quietly confident at this stage that the 'old lady' maybe making a return to our trophy cabinet within the next year. All the worst case scenarios are played out through the media but truth is there really is no excuse for us not getting promoted at the first attempt.

I think you are going to be in for a shock mate, this team needs a massive overhaul and it wont happen in one season. I reckon it isnt a smokescreen and more a realistic approach that they are saying it could take 2-3 seasons. Everything seems so flaky at the moment and its all about 'we have learnt our lessons' and 'we have got players we cant shift' ....that isnt a winning team, thats a team thats licking its wounds. Can only see mid table at best next season.

[TBLOCKRANGER]

Not sure it is that hard getting out of the Championship.
Hull promoted plus MM getting perennial chokers up.
We need stability so keeping Arry was brilliant, teams that just slide down the tables eg wolves are teams that implode.
Get off to a good start, in the leading pack come November then massive push in Xmas, we can reinforce jan and hopefully like Cardiff and us in our winning year the momentum pushes us over with the chasing pack failing to pick up points.
In the same way staying in the premiership wasn't that hard we were probably one of the worst teams ever to be in the prem but we were still in it come march early april. Stoke, west ham, norwich, saints all safe but rubbish and teams like Swansea and WBA doing well.
Next season need a team that cares with a bench that change things and I think we will ok, the club has an appetite for success and is stable both by keeping arry and the board not melting.
I'm looking forward more to next season than last summer looking forward to the current season.
Plus st back to a more normal price, if we do go up next season TF should freeze prices for renewals.

[MattyRangers]

Great post W12 and thoroughly agree with regards the no excuses for next season. Yes, it's a tough old league we all know that, but with the squad we have any money available, no way we shouldn't be pushing for automatic promotion. Early transfer activity and getting a settled squad to work on over the summer is key IMO. Get rid of the "bad eggs" early doors.

[Will M]

Our squad is weak, not sure how people see it as strong? I asked the same question before this season too, as people seemed to think it was top 8 material. Bonkers wasn't it?

What creativity do we have? Adel, that's pretty much it. And he's probably one of the first to go. Our defensive unit is poor, some decent individuals but as we so often see prone to leaking goals. We leak goals and don't make too many, as a consequence our confidence is rock bottom. And some fans are just waiting for a mistake to happen so they can roast certain players.

Not a recipe for success for me. Especially if we sign another load of players again. Frankly, people can have high expectations. I have no problem with that. I have a problem when people throw their toys out the pram when their expectations are not met. It's ridiculous to be honest.

[theblackmafia.]

We're gonna have a huge squad next season coz very few will be moved on....who wants 'em and will the players take a wage drop? Doubt it. We'll add younger players and some older peeps but I'd be surprised if we have less than 40 pros on our books all picking up stupid money still, even if we loan some oug we'll be paying their wages

[w12dave]

it a disaster! Most of our players are in their 30s so there no chance of cashing in with the wages they on

[W12_Ranger]

I wouldn't be surprised to see that the pessimists on here are the ones who were screaming to the rafters that we would stay up.

The squad is imbalanced not weak individually. We've half a dozen players who could set the championship alight.

The way some people are going on you'd think it was the same standard as the PL.