The Race to be Relegated with Wolves, 24/25 Thread

[Tony Towner]

Yeah it's not easy, makes you wonder if it's just too much of a stretch now for promoted teams to have a chance of staying up.

The gap is definitely bigger than ever between a run of the mill PL side and the Championship, but if you assume the champions should stay up then last season you had Kompany with his purist bullshit and this Leicester lost their manager, best player and made a series of terrible decisions subsequent to that. If they go up Leeds have the pulling power and financial muscle to not be in that position next year, although I think it'll take an October managerial change first

 

[jd1981]

Brentford and Fulham will always be able to attract a player simply because they're in London. Yeah they're also well run, but they have a huge natural edge over ourselves, Leicester, Leeds etc

If you’re in easy distance of one of the major cities you generally don’t have a problem with location. Fact is you only need to be in commuting range of the training ground.

 

[sycophantia]

It'll be interesting to see how it pans out over the next few seasons.

 

[jd1981]

It'll be interesting to see how it pans out over the next few seasons.

Yeah if in 2 seasons time only 1/2 out of the 12 promoted clubs survive then we can begin to say the gap is almost too big.
Ipswich staying up or going down this season neither proves or disproves this theory.

 

[Carsy]

I realise teams coming up need to increase their squad but sometimes wonder if they should spend their money on quality rather than quantity. I suppose it's not easy to get decent quality players to go to promoted teams.

A lot of newly promoted teams bolster their squads we top end championship quality players ready for the following year. You can see the gap widening but you’d imagine 2 of the 3 that go down will be battling to come straight back up.

If we didn’t piss around for half the season the 3 would already be down

 

[C.L.D]

I thought Luton played it smart last season not going to crazy but they are on track to do a "Wolves" so I guess not.

Maybe Ipswich is on same track but hopefully not. I don't think it's a good thing the gulf appears wider.

 

[The Bear]

Well yeah of course but that was 3-4 years ago and Forest had a bit of help. It just seems to be getting harder.

Forest stayed up by blatantly ignoring the rules and then took the punishment on the chin.

It's the Anti-Shi approach.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I thought Luton played it smart last season not going to crazy but they are on track to do a "Wolves" so I guess not.

Maybe Ipswich is on same track but hopefully not. I don't think it's a good thing the gulf appears wider.

It's not, but we shouldn't pretend it's an impossible task, because it really isn't.

Any of that bottom three had the chance to take advantage of us being managed by someone patently out of their depth, us building a ludicrously imbalanced squad and barely winning a game before Christmas and they didn't.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Well yeah of course but that was 3-4 years ago and Forest had a bit of help. It just seems to be getting harder.

Forest spent loads.