Promotion

[leigull]

What a silly, arrogant thread. You still need 18-22 points to be certain of staying up!

So when Palace were up near the top there weren't any threads about possibly getting promotion on the BBS? Get over yourself

 

[raymondbriggs]

What a silly, arrogant thread. You still need 18-22 points to be certain of staying up!

Team Pld Total Highest Average Capacity Pct
1 Cardiff City (4) 9 198233 23013 22026 26828 82.1%
2 Brighton & Hove Albion (6) 10 182725 20968 18273 22374 81.6%
3 West Ham United (2) 10 288977 33465 28898 35647 81.0%
4 Blackpool (7) 10 126360 13520 12636 16220 77.9%
5 Southampton (1) 10 254631 32150 25463 32689 77.8%
6 Derby County (15) 10 254741 33010 25474 33597 75.8%
7 Hull City (8) 9 171081 21756 19009 25404 74.8%
8 Nottingham Forest (22) 10 223375 27356 22338 30602 72.9%
9 Reading (11) 10 176301 21889 17630 24200 72.8%
10 Leicester City (9) 10 228667 27720 22867 32500 70.3%
11 Burnley (10) 10 142989 17226 14299 22546 63.4%
12 Doncaster Rovers (23) 10 96091 12962 9609 15231 63.0%
13 Watford (17) 10 125666 15031 12567 19920 63.0%
14 Bristol City (20) 10 133251 16346 13325 21479 62.0%
15 Birmingham City (14) 8 147928 21426 18491 30009 61.6%
16 Ipswich Town (21) 10 184530 24763 18453 30300 60.9%
17 Peterborough United (16) 10 91568 12880 9157 15314 59.7%
18 Portsmouth (18) 10 121808 16496 12181 20688 58.8%
19 Leeds United (5) 10 234342 27161 23434 40204 58.2%
20 Crystal Palace (12) 10 150837 21002 15084 26309 57.3%
21 Millwall (19) 10 102742 16078 10274 20146 50.9%
22 Middlesbrough (3) 10 172846 18457 17285 35100 49.2%
23 Coventry City (24) 10 150454 21102 15045 32500 46.2%
24 Barnsley (13) 9 91440 11783 10160 23186 43.8%

Big time palarse!!!!!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

If you were asked to say which team looked liked Premier League promotion candidates based purely on today's performance at the Amex, you'd opt for neither. Obviously. And if somebody put a gun to your head and FORCED you to choose, you'd probably opt for Forest. Luckily, that's not how life is.

 

[BHAFC_Pandapops]

The scary thing is that we could be in this league position come the day of reckoning and it's anybody's shout once in the play offs. I suspect Mr Bloom would have to dig deep if we did make it up though

this is it, it's perfectly dignified in getting to the p/o final and losing, the trip to wembley would be great

 

[SuperFurrySeagull]

I really am getting sick of these threads. IF we get promoted then we ARE good enough to get promoted and we'd obviosupy completely change the team anyway.

I think you're probably right but looking at the table tonight I can't quite believe where we are, especially considering recent performances. Should we be in a similar position come April, which is entirely plausible, I can't help be reminded of the brilliant quote from the film Withnail & I - "we've gone on holiday by mistake". Could we get promoted by mistake?

I for one am loving the season so far - anything above an unsuccessful relegation scrap would be acceptable to me...

 

[loco61]

For the last ten years, we've been a 'bounce' team - bouncing between the Championship and League 1. It's been exciting, and hasn't done us any harm. We are now a genuine Championship club - no longer the plucky little minnows punching above our weight. We're not the biggest - or even the best - but we're well up the ladder.

What would be wrong with spending the next few seasons bouncing between the Premiership and the Championship? Same wonderful roller-coaster ride that we've known and loved for ten years, with the added bonus of huge parachute payments. Sounds good to me! I don't expect us to go up this season............but I'd love it if we did. One of the happiest moments of my life was listening to Sports Report when the results were read out, and the first name on the radio was...........Brighton and Hove Albion!

i like this post very much

 

[loco61]

What a silly, arrogant thread. You still need 18-22 points to be certain of staying up!

i really hate this post ...git!

 

[fire&skill]

I'd love it if we went up. What an adventure! If we came back down we'd consolidate, but with a much healthier budget.


IGWT

 

[JonathanLivingstonSeagull]

I've seen your posts before and you're always so angry!? Think you need to get some help for that or go out and get laid.

lol, alright that's an amusing observation. anger is the conduit through which amusing rants against the enemy flow. if i raise a smile for any of our lot and nail any of your lot to the post whilst doing so then it is a job well done.

palace fans (primarily thick and coarse ones) coming on here give me my daily dose of rageahol, to which i am slightly addicted, ok?!!!

i confess i don't get laid enough for my liking... but who does? jeez

 

[ArcticBlue]

Last year Blackpool collected £39m for coming last in the EPL. They will receive payments totalling £48m over 4 years. A grand total of £87m.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Play-offs would prove to free agents that we are ready to push for the Prem, and in the summer could attract the 2 or 3 truely Prem class players we would need to add to our current squad with a year in Champ behind them. Think what we'd be like with Bennett, a top young keeper who can pass it about a bit, and one other top player added.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

I can't believe we are 6th when apparently we're complete crap according to most on here. Imagine the melt-down on the Derby, Ipswich, Reading, Leicester boards right now?

We just to have enjoy this ride. If we go up, this year or next or the one after, then we will be huge favourites to come down, and that is when Poyet and our best players will undoubtedly leave. That's the cycle of football. So we have to enjoy the here and now because it may never be better than this in our lifetime.

The money and parachute payments seems to be meaningless. Its hard to see what good it did Barnsley or Bradford or Swindon or Watford or Burnley or Derby or Sheffield United or Norwich (from a few years back), they all came down quickly and in many cases fell through to League 1 or worst

 

[Napper]

What a silly, arrogant thread. You still need 18-22 points to be certain of staying up!

Must hurt you all this talk ha ha ha ha

 

[sydney]

promotion , no thankyou , you lot need to switch to some differrent gear innit...?