We did play in europe in the 80's. We got to the quater finals of the ECWC 1980/81.The_Dead_Ball wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 12:06 pm Off the top of my head I think we been relegated in each of the last five decades? 70s,80s,90s,00s and 10s. Amazingly in each decade we played a semi final in a cup and from the fact that English clubs were banned from Europe during the 80s we would had played in every in Europe in each decade too.
So as far as the 20s we done the semi and Europe. Just one more to complete the hattrick
The Relegation Thread
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One win takes you from bottom up to 14th as it stands!
Bonkers!
Forest having 20 pts at the half way stage may be enough to keep them out of it, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a collapse there.
Anyone in that bottom 8 could realistically drop and equally pull away from it with a decent run.
Bonkers!
Forest having 20 pts at the half way stage may be enough to keep them out of it, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a collapse there.
Anyone in that bottom 8 could realistically drop and equally pull away from it with a decent run.
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There needs to be even a small improvement in our performances to stay up, and I can't see any potential for that.
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This is the issue, we are not doing anything different. Nothing looks like it is about to change. I have pretty much resigned myself to relegation.irving boleyn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 12:18 pm There needs to be even a small improvement in our performances to stay up, and I can't see any potential for that.
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There is huge potential for it. How realistic that potential is, different question.irving boleyn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 12:18 pm There needs to be even a small improvement in our performances to stay up, and I can't see any potential for that.
A team with the likes of Kehrer, Zouma, Aguerd, Rice, Paqueta, Bowen, Benrahma and Scammaca should be doing far better than ours currently is as they are all decent international level players.
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Rice isn't exempt from that as things stand.
Crazy to say it as he is one of the best talents in the world for his position and an England captain for years to come. But you would not know it having watched him in the past few weeks.
Let me be clear, I am not turning on Rice, nor am I on the other players mentioned. I do expect to see more from them all though.
Crazy to say it as he is one of the best talents in the world for his position and an England captain for years to come. But you would not know it having watched him in the past few weeks.
Let me be clear, I am not turning on Rice, nor am I on the other players mentioned. I do expect to see more from them all though.
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I don't think no club should be relegated especially if they have been established for a long while we have 11 years everton have much longer even Southampton I don't know how long they have been in the premiership but something as gone badly wrong with these clubs to be in this position.
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Just a very average mainly old bunch of players that aren't being lifted by Noble any more.
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Garry - the Saints got promoted back to the Premier the same season we did under Big Sam.Garry wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 12:57 pm I don't think no club should be relegated especially if they have been established for a long while we have 11 years everton have much longer even Southampton I don't know how long they have been in the premiership but something as gone badly wrong with these clubs to be in this position.
We went up by winning the play offs and Reading and Southampton were the automatic promotion places.
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was nice for a couple of seasons to look at this thread and not have to worry about us being mentioned in it. Now we're back at centre stage.
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Was thinking that yesterday.Hummer_I_mean_Hammer wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 1:56 pm was nice for a couple of seasons to look at this thread and not have to worry about us being mentioned in it. Now we're back at centre stage.
It's either boom or bust for us, nothing in between.
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Much as I hated and would hate to "Drop"..
When was doing the home/away every game thing,not so much any more...was a good crack going to different Towns/Clubs on the away
days...
Clutching at Straws I think that's called..... :lol:
When was doing the home/away every game thing,not so much any more...was a good crack going to different Towns/Clubs on the away
days...
Clutching at Straws I think that's called..... :lol:
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When do the discussions start about 'it could be good for us' or 'Gives us chance to rebuild and start again' or 'Clear the deadwood'
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It could be good for us, gives us chance to rebuild and start again, clear the deadwood.
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I agree.The Terminator wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 2:08 pm It could be good for us, gives us chance to rebuild and start again, clear the deadwood.
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We can add Palace to that list, according to mates of mine who support them...Hammerted wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 12:05 pm Bournemouth
Everton
Southampton
Nottingham Forest
Wolves
Leeds United
Leicester City
Do people genuinely believe that we are not better than at least three of the above? The bookies are currently quoting all as being more likely to be relegated than us.
Any talk of relegation is nonsense and serves as nothing other than a distraction to our victorious march across Europe.
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In the 8 games against these teams so far, we have managed 8 points. So I’m not sure we are better than any of them at the moment. The upside is that none of them probably think they are better than us. To assume we should easily finish above most of these, considering our fixtures against them so far is probably not wise.
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Problem is, who are the deadwood ?The Terminator wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 2:08 pm It could be good for us, gives us chance to rebuild and start again, clear the deadwood.
My concerns would be that the flair players we’ve got would leave and we would be left with the deadwood. Your likes of Cresswell, Fabianski, Ogbonna, Coufal and Antonio would stay. Aguerd, Paqueta, Scamacca, Fornals, Rice and Bowen would all leave.
We would probably have the following,.
Areola, Fabianski
Johnson, Zouma, Kehrer, Cresswell, Coufal
Downes, Lanzini, Soucek, Cornet, Benrahma, Masuaku
That is a hell of a building job to do and the issue is that even in the championship you need pace. Apart from Cornet, there’s absolutely none in the list above.
We would get a lot less for the “names” than they’re worth as well.
Nope, for me we got to stay up. If you want a rebuild, that can be done in the PL. you don’t need to get relegated to do that…