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I think the Leeds and Ipswich matches showed us where we are in terms of trying to be competitive in the PL. Currently, Bob Hope and No Hope.
I know the reason Hamer was not picked up this season by a PL team and he is easily in the top three best midfielders in the Championship. He would walk into our team.
It is not impossible to stay up but tactics and recruitment have to be 100% right which is tough. Major investment would also help.
If we did get promoted, we would probably have to be sensible with contract clauses if relegated and plan for a yo yo return.

 

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[Gleneagles65]

Fat Boy Phillips on over £100k a week was never good business.

 

[Lamps]

I think the Leeds and Ipswich matches showed us where we are in terms of trying to be competitive in the PL. Currently, Bob Hope and No Hope.
I know the reason Hamer was not picked up this season by a PL team and he is easily in the top three best midfielders in the Championship. He would walk into our team.
It is not impossible to stay up but tactics and recruitment have to be 100% right which is tough. Major investment would also help.
If we did get promoted, we would probably have to be sensible with contract clauses if relegated and plan for a yo yo return.

Our big advantage would be Lampard. He turned around a losing side to a side that's flying. Nobody can argue about his tactics so far. He would know what we would need to have a chance of survival.

Just need to get there first.

 

[mmttww]

Our big advantage would be Lampard...

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[Sky Blue Goblin]

Our big advantage would be Lampard. He turned around a losing side to a side that's flying. Nobody can argue about his tactics so far. He would know what we would need to have a chance of survival.

Just need to get there first.

To be fair, out of the bottom three clubs none of their managers had any premiership experience. Lampard has completed two seasons in the top flight so will have some experience in what is required.

He’s shown a good level of pragmatism in playing ugly with us so hope he could keep us up

 

[Yorkshire SB]

Not sure I agree with the Ipswich slagging. They’re very well set for future.

 

[Rodders1]

The issue is promoted teams go up and think they can still play the same way when the game is different, an analysis of which teams does the worst shows that the teams set up wanting to be Guardiola and dominate the ball like they did in the Championship do the worst.
Evidence of this Southampton, Leicester, Burnley in this season and last. They all tried to dominate the ball play this pretty passing football and work the ball up slowly low tempo.
The promoted teams that give themselves a better chance have been Luton and Ipswich of which knew they wouldnt see as much of the ball understood the difference in speed of the game and intensity and played to it rather than stay the same.
I think if we went up playing this football we’d have a good chance as we dont just look comfortable when we dominate the ball, we work hard off it and play in a way that mixes pretty passing with quick counter attacks and high tempo. You need that aggression and bite to survive look at Everton last few years not necessarily a pretty team or good quality but showed that fight, hunger and desire.
I would do a more in depth analysis going properly into it but its probably a too big post already

Exactly. Brentford went up, played 5 at the back - quick counter attacks and stayed up. Then slowly built a team that played more after…

 

[Rodders1]

Not sure I agree with the Ipswich slagging. They’re very well set for future.

Yeah I think they are now in the yo-yo mix going forward. It’s a free hit the prem this year, they’re in a really fantastic position from 4/5 years ago.