Anyone else quite happy if we stay in the championship for a few seasons?

[wilko1]

Happy to stay in the Championship for the time being
Good to see us competing well at this level, and at the right end of the table
Consolidation, building the team, all bodes well for a future push to the promised land

 

[Uwinsc]

Happy to stay in the Championship for the time being
Good to see us competing well at this level, and at the right end of the table
Consolidation, building the team, all bodes well for a future push to the promised land

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[Northstandite]

FFP still allows for investment and for a club to run at a loss, just not so much. Also think that (at least initially) there will be ways to get around it if the desire is there. Regardless, it looks to me like TB is investing now for a quick assault on the Prem. As said elsewhere the increasing parachutes of relegated clubs (and FFP too) are going to make promotion increasingly more difficult. We certainly can't expect our chances to get easier on a "time served" basis

Sensible post.

The FFP rules are stringent and will be enforced. All 72 clubs are in it together.

This means the vast parachute payment clubs will have a competitive advantage.

From now on in, TB can only subsidise capital projects like Lancing, and not the playing/operating/overheads side of things.

So the skill or not of the manager will now be everything.

 

[Insel affe]

More than happy with the Championship, playing good attacking football with the odd cup run and a final would be amazing. We need the acadamy and players coming through to be established and then push on from that. Will never forget Hereford and home games at Gillingham, which makes me happy with everything right now having said that I still hold the right to moan...... I am a man who supports a football team its my god given right !!

 

[Northstandite]

You forgot 'And getting soundly beaten at both'.

Strange how little old Swansea, Stoke,and Norwich are not receiving thrashings each week, despite having smaller fan bases and lower catchments than the Albion's.

You don't have go up, and play the high risk QPR route to attempted survival.

 

[Northstandite]

The promoted teams last year were pretty good, much better than the rest. They deserved promotion yet have taken time to adapt.

Currently, we are not walking this league, like we did Div 1. We are not ready yet. Another year will do no harm. Three more teams will come up and there doesn't look to be anything special. last years relegated Prem sides have all struggled, chances our the next lot will also do so. Those parachute payments have never really stopped clubs heading downwards.

As for building a team/club, that takes time. We lost momentum after the August window, trying to intergrate 5 new players and, only a few months later, we are now seeing the qualities of some. Be patient & enjoy the ride!

That was the best period ... Aug and most of Sept.

Then the collapse started.
Failing to beat awful teams at home, and outclassed at competitors away.

 

[fire&skill]

If/when we go up I want us to win the league comfortably, or come second with a big gap between us and third

 

[Return of the Rev]

Anyone else quite happy if we stay in the championship for a few seasons?
At a cost of 8 million a year can we afford to stay?

 

[Camicus]

Anyone else quite happy if we stay in the championship for a few seasons?
At a cost of 8 million a year can we afford to stay?

Its not my cash so yes I can afford for us to stay. We are not ready for the prem and if we go up how many are we going to get at the amex when we get hammered week in week out

 

[marshy68]

I'd rather be competitive in the Championship than watch us lose every week in the prem.

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[Rich Suvner]

Happy to stay in the Championship for the time being
Good to see us competing well at this level, and at the right end of the table
Consolidation, building the team, all bodes well for a future push to the promised land

Exactly. Would be nice to see us compete against big boys but there's other as aspects of Prem I am not fussed about. But just happy if we stay a team that plays attractive attacking football in top two divisions.

 

[W.C.]

I want Brighton to win every football match they play and have great players, therefore ofcourse I want to see us go up.

If we don't however, more than happy with the championship. It's a great league.

 

[The Birdman]

It would be nice to be promoted this season but I would not be upset if it took 2to3 seasons when we have built our academy and produce players that could get us to challenge to get into Europe in the future as we can't just buy this . I have watched the Albion for 48 years so I am patiant and still enjoying every game at the Amex.

 

[BearwoodSeagull]

Yep....love the Championship at the moment. So competitive and entertaining....would love the excitement of a promotion run, and I am sure it would financially help TB to secure the clubs future too, but would I enjoy seeing us lose most weeks in the Prem? Would I enjoy us spending millions more on players just to keep us there? Would I log on to NSC after every defeat?
Just enjoyin' the ride !

 

[supaseagull]

I want to see my club, which I've supported for over thirty years, challenge at the very highest level not be a perennial underachiever at Championship level.

I want to see the best players in the world at one of the best football grounds in the world and I want to see my club have a chance of signing those best players.

If people are happy with mid table mediocrity every year at the championship, then I would ask whether you would still accept it,when we fail to sell out matches and end up with a half empty stadium because people know we have no ambition to reach the premier league and then subsequently end up having to be a selling club once again and run the risk of getting into debt and ultimately administration Which would then likely end up in us being in the same position as we were in the 80s!

 

[Rugrat]

There seems to be a theory that if we get promoted we're going to get hammered every week but for some reason in 2/3 years time we'll be OK and even challenging for Europe. I don't really buy it, if we assemble the right players, play the the right way and get a dose of good fortune we'll go up. Then if we buy shrewdly, adapt quickly and get some more breaks we'll stay up. I think the whole notion of waiting for, well what?, is illogical

 

[Dave the OAP]

To be honest I would be quite happy to stay in this division for ages yet....the costs are ok, if we went up the temptation to spend big money to stay there, which Gus has a propensity to do, could lead to problems. But top half of this division would be fine for me.

 

[Bold Seagull]

We certainly can't expect our chances to get easier on a "time served" basis

Like Cardiff for example....

 

[Rugrat]

Like Cardiff for example....

Well if the criteria was spend 6/7seasons in the Championship then you get promoted I suppose we'll have to wait behind teams like Leeds, Ipswich, Forest and Derby.

Cardiff have been perceptually changing, turning over players and a couple of changes of manager. This season they've thrown a load more money at it so I'm not sure what your point is. I'd say time probably ranks well down on the list of criteria of a promoted team and the reason many of the non relegated clubs who do get promoted have it is because it's just so difficult to get promoted (and will become increasingly difficult)

 

[bhawoddy]

The day we accept the championship is as far as we can go then we will be back down to crowds of less than 10000

Exactly, some contented fans would love that...... Or perhaps they haven't thought their argument through enough.