Would you take one season of being absolutely tonked in the Premiership

[Icy Gull]

week in week out to gain the parachute payments I saw mentioned on here the other day of 16 million x 2 seasons and 8 million x 2 seasons?

I reckon I'd live with that, a lucky promotion via the playoffs ( assuming we can get back on track soon obviously). Spend the 32 million or whatever it is on players with a let out clause for the club to get shot of them if we get relegated and then rebuild with the parachute payments giving us up to 4 years to get it right and build a strong squad that will have a decent chance of staying up the next time? Remembering we'd probably be challenging every year near the top and would in turn get sell out crowds every week.

Disclaimer - apologies if all the figures are wrong!

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

No. I would rather we built the team up and progressed it more naturally by staying in this division and actually competing for a while, than have a lucky promotion followed by 9 months of batterings

 

[mikeyjh]

week in week out to gain the parachute payments I saw mentioned on here the other day of 16 million x 2 seasons and 8 million x 2 seasons?

I reckon I'd live with that, a lucky promotion via the playoffs ( assuming we can get back on track soon obviously). Spend the 32 million or whatever it is on players with a let out clause for the club to get shot of them if we get relegated and then rebuild with the parachute payments giving us up to 4 years to get it right and build a strong squad that will have a decent chance of staying up the next time? Remembering we'd probably be challenging every year near the top and would in turn get sell out crowds every week.

Disclaimer - apologies if all the figures are wrong!

I can't recommend it!

If you look around, many of the teams that have gone up and come down, have ended up in financial doo doo, and are not terribly succesful - Obviously it works for some, but teams really need to fight to stay up to get any long term benefit.

 

[Icy Gull]

No. I would rather we built the team up and progressed it more naturally by staying in this division and actually competing for a while, than have a lucky promotion followed by 9 months of batterings

Can you imagine how good a team we would have if we had 16 million to spend and another 16 million next year if we don't go up? If TB is not gonna keep digging deep for players ( and why should he now?) it will be a while before we can spend that sort of money.

 

[Acker79]

I think you have to take promotion when you can and not say 'not now, I'll have it next year' because you can't know that you'll actually have the chance the following year (injuries, personnel changes, harder league, etc). You'd also be better equipped to improve the team for a second crack at the premier league, and you'd know which of your players can make the step up and which can't and know the areas needed to improve to increase chances of staying up if you get up there again.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

As one of the young people in the Bracknell family used to say ... "That's not a choose".

 

[Icy Gull]

I can't recommend it!

If you look around, many of the teams that have gone up and come down, have ended up in financial doo doo, and are not terribly succesful - Obviously it works for some, but teams really need to fight to stay up to get any long term benefit.

Is that not because they have gone for broke, spent a fortune and given long term contracts to players. How are Blackpool's finances given the fact that they went up with a shit stadium which they have spent money on, didn't overstretch last season I don't think. I'd suggest they are in a better position than most in this division which has to be a result of their season in the top flight?

 

[CHAPPERS]

Parachute payments PISS ME OFF.

 

[Tory Boy]

I would as it will pay for half the stadium.

TB

 

[Icy Gull]

Parachute payments PISS ME OFF.

They wouldn't if they were ours

 

[Seagull Steve]

Impossible to answer, as being beaten every week in the Prem would be hard to take, but the payments would be handy. But this is an exciting division, with some very big teams, and learning our craft against these players, would set us in good stead to sustain a run in the Premiership.

But with how we are doing at the moment, there is a very long way to go, before we start dreaming about the Prem.

 

[Randsta]

I wouldn't bother going to any games I'd just watch them on MOTD

 

[chez]

Yeah I'd take that and then rent out my ST for the season we were in the Premiership.

 

[Fozzyboy]

Of course I would take going to the Premiership. It would make Brighton a much loved club nationally (Just like Blackpool last year) & just think of the buzz it would be when we do get some good results (and it's bound to happen at some stage of the season)

 

[stss30]

We're no way near ready to go into the Premiership as has been proven recently. I'd rather we built our squad and made a good go of it instead of doing a Derby

 

[Seagulltonian]

How well have West Brom done with the parachute payments system? I forget how many times they've been promoted and relegated over the last 6 seasons?

 

[dgh123]

Ermm... NO!

 

[AMEXican Wave]

I can't recommend it!

If you look around, many of the teams that have gone up and come down, have ended up in financial doo doo, and are not terribly succesful - Obviously it works for some, but teams really need to fight to stay up to get any long term benefit.

You are right, but this is the first year of the 16m parachute payment - they were 11m previously, and they now last for 4 years rather than the 2 it was before.

 

[GT49er]

Of course I would - it's not a bad life being a bounce club, as we have been for the last 10 or 12 years. Bouncing higher would be even better! And, if we are careful with contracts and money, we can use parachute payments to improve the team.

 

[mikeyjh]

You are right, but this is the first year of the 16m parachute payment - they were 11m previously, and they now last for 4 years rather than the 2 it was before.

Yeah, I understand that and it certainly helps, but if you park the finance for a second, the effect on Derby after THAT season was pretty grim. Well crowds held up (averaging around 30,000), the feel of the club was very very negative. We're only just properly recovering in the 4th season since. I'd say build slowly and get the base right is the way forward.