The Now-Irrelevant 2024/25 Relegation Battle (Without Everton!)

[Gwladysstreetlad]

The relegated sides go down because the league is actually pretty good though?

The PL is the worst its ever been imo. Its awful. We're truly terrible and yet with a couple decent buys in the summer we could easily be top ten next season. The PL is closer to the farmers league them the French at this point. Its dreadful.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

The PL is the worst its ever been imo. Its awful. We're truly terrible and yet with a couple decent buys in the summer we could easily be top ten next season. The PL is closer to the farmers league them the French at this point. Its dreadful.

We've played three games against the "top two" recently and haven't been "out of our depth",I may be going mad/senile but I do not see it being beyond possible with some astute summer additions to at least "do a forest" next season

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Big Ears McKenna will be legged by them at some point next season.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

We've played three games against the "top two" recently and haven't been "out of our depth",I may be going mad/senile but I do not see it being beyond possible with some astute summer additions to at least "do a forest" next season

I'd love nothing more than that, but I've been burned by this club to many times to allow myself to be that optimistic so I'm content with the top ten dream and a serious crack at the cups.

 

[Drico]

We've played three games against the "top two" recently and haven't been "out of our depth",I may be going mad/senile but I do not see it being beyond possible with some astute summer additions to at least "do a forest" next season

Indeed. I'm no fan of the bulk of these players - I rate only four (which is twice as many as I did six months ago...progress, I suppose) - and I don't think this manager is the future, but any kind of decent summer at all with a little ambition and judicious purchasing and we have every chance to go top 10 next term in one leap. It's a very ordinary division.

 

[mikel_88]

Hope Leeds fail in the play offs

Same i would orefer sunderland coming back up.

 

[Drico]

McKenna is definitely one fo keep an eye on, £152m on top of that they had which was a non existent PL calibre squad is nothing and the6 were always going to struggle, given they were in League1 two seasons ago. The only issue for me with him, was he looks like another one of this managers who stuck to their footballing principles when they possible should have been more pragmatic.

Anybody sticking to their "footballing principles" at all costs is in the business of brand enhancement. Their own.

 

[MACCA75]

The PL is the worst its ever been imo. Its awful. We're truly terrible and yet with a couple decent buys in the summer we could easily be top ten next season. The PL is closer to the farmers league them the French at this point. Its dreadful.

Dion Dublin won the golden boot once, playing for Coventry. In a season that had fixtures like Barnsley v Wimbledon. Derby County finished top half.

The very top Prem clubs are all a bit weaker than 2 or 3 years ago, but Newcastle, Forest and Villa have their best sides in a generation and Brentford, Bournemouth and Brighton have pretty much their best sides ever.

It’s a strong league. It’s trendy to knock it but still as strong as any in the world. (5 are still in Europe in April btw)

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

Dion Dublin won the golden boot once, playing for Coventry. In a season that had fixtures like Barnsley v Wimbledon. Derby County finished top half.

The very top Prem clubs are all a bit weaker than 2 or 3 years ago, but Newcastle, Forest and Villa have their best sides in a generation and Brentford, Bournemouth and Brighton have pretty much their best sides ever.

It’s a strong league. It’s trendy to knock it but still as strong as any in the world.

Meh. Maybe its just me then but I find the standard way lower and way less enjoyable all across the board, and you can't say "well that's because we're rubbish and you aren't being objective" because I was going week in and week out in the 90's too and we where really crap then too but the togger was still better overall.

 

[Rita_Poon]

southampton relegated the earliest ever (today). Even with us gifting them a win.

It appears the richest game in football (the playoff final) isn't quite rich enough.

 

[TGW89]

Dion Dublin won the golden boot once, playing for Coventry. In a season that had fixtures like Barnsley v Wimbledon. Derby County finished top half.

The very top Prem clubs are all a bit weaker than 2 or 3 years ago, but Newcastle, Forest and Villa have their best sides in a generation and Brentford, Bournemouth and Brighton have pretty much their best sides ever.

It’s a strong league. It’s trendy to knock it but still as strong as any in the world. (5 are still in Europe in April btw)

And we only stayed up on GD with 40 pts. This year 30 (THIRTY!!!) is about 60% cert to do it.

 

[MACCA75]

And we only stayed up on GD with 40 pts. This year 30 (THIRTY!!!) is about 60% cert to do it.

Exactly. That shows how good the teams are now, it’s becoming very difficult to break into it.

 

[Walken]

The PL is the worst its ever been imo. Its awful. We're truly terrible and yet with a couple decent buys in the summer we could easily be top ten next season. The PL is closer to the farmers league them the French at this point. Its dreadful.

Agreed, football in general is of a low standard, compare the squads of the last world cup to those in 98 or a few others

 

[knowing your history]

And Leicester coming up with 117 points as 39 year-old Vardy tops the scoring charts

I actually reckon they'll be nearer the bottom in 12 months e.g. similar to Luton.

Coming down with a far worse squad than two years ago and a real toxic atmosphere towards the ownership now although it dosen't seem like they're thinking of selling up. Surely will get a long overdue points deduction to start the season with.

Ipswich should be up there like Burnley, Southampton depends on manager.

 

[knowing your history]

We wanted to do that, but Dyche quit and here we are.

If he stayed I reckon we would still be sitting on 19 points.

27-28 points I reckon. Would've scrambled a 1-0 against Leicester which most would've hailed as an incredible result given how low standards had fallen and beaten West Ham or Brentford and got a few of the draws Moyes had claimed.

So yes would've stayed up in all likelihood but I'd rather have not taken that chance and quite content to be 15 points clear with still 7 games to play.