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The Prem Relegation Dogfight

Even other premier league sides of old were in the championship relegation battle today. Goes to show we shouldn't take out premier league position for granted.
 
It will be interesting to see how Leeds & Burnley (& maybe Sheff Utd) approach life in the PL next season & if it will be any different from when they last came up.
 
PatrickA said:
It reminds me of our old manager , Malcolm Allison.
He promised to take us out of the Championship equivalent.
He kept his promise..... but sadly we were relegated rather than promoted!
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Only the force of nature that was big mal could’ve got away with that. Strange how everyone still loved him , amazing what a bit of charisma can do…..and a good cup run I suppose 😎
 
The promoted teams were so poor that If we hadn’t still been in the cup our season would effectively have been over before the end of Feb. That’s not great really, nice though it is to not have relegation worries.
 
yes we should take note how quickly it can go wrong, and they made a very bad turn when they sacked steve cooper at least they still had some chance of staying up with him,its quite scary what😕 a couple of wrong choices can do
 
blackgirl3 said:
yes we should take note how quickly it can go wrong, and they made a very bad turn when they sacked steve cooper at least they still had some chance of staying up with him,its quite scary what😕 a couple of wrong choices can do
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I thought Luton looked half decent last season and were somewhat unlucky to get relegated (Forest could easily have been the third to go down).

What a difference a season makes, Forest likely to be in Europe and Luton are now in League 1.
 
PalazioVecchio said:
its hard to believe how good Leicester used to be. Cos they were rubbish this season.
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Against us at their place, they could’ve been two or three up at half time and didn’t look too bad. We then obviously pinched it second half with a couple of goals. But that game seemed to knock what bit of fight they had left out of them. I don’t think they scored a goal at home since the end of last year until they beat saints weekend
 
Davepalace707 said:
The promoted teams were so poor that If we hadn’t still been in the cup our season would effectively have been over before the end of Feb. That’s not great really, nice though it is to not have relegation worries.
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Despite the fact that Palace have benefitting by achieving promotion through the playoffs, more than once, I do feel that things have changed since then, the difference in playing standards between Championship & PL has increased significantly, as evidenced over recent years by how many of the promoted clubs go straight back down, in light of that I do feel that the play off scenario, at least in the Championship / PL category, has outlived its usefulness & should be changed back to automatic promotion for the top 3 clubs at the end of the season.

When you look at the Championship this year - Leeds & Burnley have been the stand out sides both finishing with 100 points & Sheff Utd finishing with 90 points should be the next logical promotion contender - however they now need to undergo the play off format to include both Coventry 69 points & Bristol City 68 points -how can a club that have achieved 32 points less than the 2 clubs that have achieved automatic promotion & 22 points less than the 3rd place team (over a 46 game season) realistically hope to be anything more than relegation candidates if they manage to somehow emerge victorious from the play offs -

Promoting Sheff Utd (announcing it at the same time as the season ended) would at least give them a chance to organise how they approach the PL season instead of making them wait for another month, competing in the play off games & I would imagine hope to emerge victorious - only then can they go forward with any plans -

Surely promotion to the PL is hard enough without giving any team the additional shackles of play offs -
 
Ex Dubai Eagle said:
Despite the fact that Palace have benefitting by achieving promotion through the playoffs, more than once, I do feel that things have changed since then, the difference in playing standards between Championship & PL has increased significantly, as evidenced over recent years by how many of the promoted clubs go straight back down, in light of that I do feel that the play off scenario, at least in the Championship / PL category, has outlived its usefulness & should be changed back to automatic promotion for the top 3 clubs at the end of the season.

When you look at the Championship this year - Leeds & Burnley have been the stand out sides both finishing with 100 points & Sheff Utd finishing with 90 points should be the next logical promotion contender - however they now need to undergo the play off format to include both Coventry 69 points & Bristol City 68 points -how can a club that have achieved 32 points less than the 2 clubs that have achieved automatic promotion & 22 points less than the 3rd place team (over a 46 game season) realistically hope to be anything more than relegation candidates if they manage to somehow emerge victorious from the play offs -

Promoting Sheff Utd (announcing it at the same time as the season ended) would at least give them a chance to organise how they approach the PL season instead of making them wait for another month, competing in the play off games & I would imagine hope to emerge victorious - only then can they go forward with any plans -

Surely promotion to the PL is hard enough without giving any team the additional shackles of play offs -
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TV money is the simple answer but as much as it must rile Sheffield Utd you have to admit the Championship play offs do provide some decent entertainment.
 
I like the playoffs because of the rewards and jeopardy for a crap game. Although I do think 3 rd bottom of the relegation division and the 3-4-5 th of the below division should be in it. That was the initial format when we beat Swindon I think. Might just be my age though and totally wrong 😀
 
Ex Dubai Eagle said:
Despite the fact that Palace have benefitting by achieving promotion through the playoffs, more than once, I do feel that things have changed since then, the difference in playing standards between Championship & PL has increased significantly, as evidenced over recent years by how many of the promoted clubs go straight back down, in light of that I do feel that the play off scenario, at least in the Championship / PL category, has outlived its usefulness & should be changed back to automatic promotion for the top 3 clubs at the end of the season.

When you look at the Championship this year - Leeds & Burnley have been the stand out sides both finishing with 100 points & Sheff Utd finishing with 90 points should be the next logical promotion contender - however they now need to undergo the play off format to include both Coventry 69 points & Bristol City 68 points -how can a club that have achieved 32 points less than the 2 clubs that have achieved automatic promotion & 22 points less than the 3rd place team (over a 46 game season) realistically hope to be anything more than relegation candidates if they manage to somehow emerge victorious from the play offs -

Promoting Sheff Utd (announcing it at the same time as the season ended) would at least give them a chance to organise how they approach the PL season instead of making them wait for another month, competing in the play off games & I would imagine hope to emerge victorious - only then can they go forward with any plans -

Surely promotion to the PL is hard enough without giving any team the additional shackles of play offs -
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United finished 14 points ahead of the rest of the pack. If not for the playoffs, the promoted clubs would have been determined weeks ago which would have left, say, seven teams nothing to play for. I think the fans of those clubs are happy with the current format
 
pssguy said:
United finished 14 points ahead of the rest of the pack. If not for the playoffs, the promoted clubs would have been determined weeks ago which would have left, say, seven teams nothing to play for. I think the fans of those clubs are happy with the current format
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And united were top 7 or 8 games ago so really put themselves 3rd. Crap games costs points and they really had some crap games.
 
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