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As a Newcastle fan, I can tell you that the Championship season after the first 'recent' relegation was spectacularly fun. We won almost every week, which made a change.
This. Championship is a better league than the PL (quality of football aside) and coming down to the league with a good squad is fun. The challenge is getting back out again. It's a great league because it's super competitive.
We're really struggling this time and teams like Villa, Wolves, Stoke, Fulham etc etc have all missed getting back into the PL at the first time of asking, even with good squads.
What you really don't want, is to still be there after the parachute payments dry up.
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As a Norwich fan would agree with all of this.
We definitely don’t help ourselves with our stated model of not bankrupting the club by keeping spending low when we go up, but the Premier League is a relentless year of perhaps winnable games sprinkled amongst wars of attrition as others try to claw themselves a draw closer to the magical 40pts mark or inevitable hidings from those that are in the mini league above you in the greater number.
Something needs fixing somewhere for fans of the ‘lesser’ clubs, especially as us (and Fulham) have appeared to be gaming the system and taking up one of the relegation and promotion spots each year as we flip-flop divisions!
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What you really don't want, is to still be there after the parachute payments dry up.
And this is how the premier league has fucked over the whole football pyramid.
tonylast
roboto
As a Newcastle fan, I can tell you that the Championship season after the first 'recent' relegation was spectacularly fun. We won almost every week, which made a change.
However, if you think back to the 10 years after that it wasnt exactly roses. There was a good season under Pardew rewarded with a fun but short European campaign (I went to Bruges and Bordeaux), but the rest has been shite. Yoyoing, Mclaren, latter Pardew, Kineer, Wise,Bruce et al.
The only way to truly break the 7th-17th curse is to have your club acquired by a toxic nation state, and take it from me, you don't want that either. I would go back to dreaming of the 7th Place Everton Cup Trophy.