So..Here it is, next seasons Championship

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BrickTop

Grenville Morris
Looks like its going to be a good season, some great games to look forward too.

Barnsley
Bristol City
Burnley
Cardiff
Coventry
Crystal Palace
Derby
Doncaster
Hull
Ipswich
Leeds Utd
Leicester
Middlesbrough
Millwall
Norwich
Nottm Forest
Portsmouth
Preston
QPR
Reading
Scũnthorpe
Sheff Utd
Swansea
Watford
 
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TheDude

Guest
on first look i want to go to just about everyone one of them!
 
M

Monk De Wally De Honk

Guest
No, but it is an easy way to spell cünt or cûnt without the spelling police being called
 
nffc_1865!

nffc_1865!

First Team Squad
The nPower Championship sounds so crap.
We have spent a whole Football League sponsorship contract without breaking into the top flight.
 
lemonforest

lemonforest

First Team Squad
so many tasty grounds to get to there, can't wait for the new season, especially Leeds, hear great things about away days there. 10 weeks!!
 
MansfieldRed

MansfieldRed

Jack Armstrong
Ray Von said:
Looks like its going to be a good season, some great games to look forward too.

Barnsley: Possibly another season of struggle.
Bristol City: May struggle a bit.
Burnley: Depends on their actual finances, but parachute payments will help
Cardiff: See above. If they have to go into admin, but would expect to be there
Coventry: Given latter form could be in trouble.
Crystal Palace : Unsure if have CVA, still need to sell. Possibly in trouble.
Derby: Early signings, but not what you would say quality ones.
Doncaster: Good season just gone, probably similar one this.
Hull: Financially in trouble. Most probably need to sell.
Ipswich: Keane started to turn around. Possibly mid-table.
Leeds Utd: Almost threw away promotion and lost Beckford. Possible struggle.
Leicester: Possible second season syndrome, but unlikely. There or thereabouts.
Middlesbrough: Poor season by their standards, but should be there or thereabouts.
Millwall: Need strength. Potential strugglers.
Norwich: Could be the "surprise" package. Mid-table and up.
Nottm Forest : Fill in gaps and should be there or thereabouts.
Portsmouth: Depends on of the CVA is accepted, but still need a complete overhaul.
Preston: Average season, hard to see anything more at the moment.
QPR: If they finally have stability could be a decent season.
Reading: If they can keep latter half form will be there or thereabouts.
Scũnthorpe: Hard to look beyond another season of struggle.
Sheff Utd: Need to re-build and bring in some players. Possibly mid-table.
Swansea: If they can start scoring goals will be a threat.
Watford: Could be another season of struggling
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What I think could happen.
 
Jonathan

Jonathan

Resident foodie!
Ray Von said:
Looks like its going to be a good season, some great games to look forward too.

Barnsley - mid-table
Bristol City - top 10
Burnley - top 10
Cardiff - play-offs
Coventry - bottom half
Crystal Palace - relegation battle
Derby - mid-table
Doncaster - mid-table
Hull - bottom half
Ipswich - top half
Leeds Utd - mid-table
Leicester - top 10
Middlesbrough - top few
Millwall - relegation battle
Norwich - top 10
Nottm Forest - play-offs
Portsmouth - mid-table
Preston - relegation battle
QPR - play-offs
Reading - play-offs
Scũnthorpe - relegation battle
Sheff Utd - top 10
Swansea - mid table
Watford - relegation battle
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That's what I think...
 
Jonathan

Jonathan

Resident foodie!
Winnits said:
Is nobody going up automatically in your prediction?
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Play-offs meant 'at least play-offs'.

Don't think you can pick one or two sides who stand out above the rest this season like you could last time with Newcastle and West Brom.
 
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nffc1991

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Had a quick look at the Odds to finish at Champions, sums up the league to be honest!

Burnley 10/1
Cardiff City 10/1
Middlesbrough 10/1
Nottingham Forest 10/1
Leicester City 11/1
QPR 11/1
Leeds 12/1
Norwich 14/1
Reading 14/1
Swansea City 14/1
Sheffield United 14/1
Portsmouth 16/1
Hull 16/1

Looking at the clubs in the League, although I would love for us to have been promoted I'm starting to think that I might prefer being where we are. Another year's experience in arguably the most competitive division in the Football League. With a couple of singings in the right places and a couple of older heads we could and maybe should pushing for Automatic.

Having said that I would more than settle for the Play-Offs, and whilst be a little dissapointed and considering the over-achieving last season a top half finish wouldn't be a disaster. It will be interesting to see how Davies will conduct himself from now onwards, teams know how we play now and he can't say we aren't ready, the team is in place (or will be with a bi of luck after the summer) and he won't get away with the same excuses this time around.
 
nffc_1865!

nffc_1865!

First Team Squad
sebs said:
in the report on the millwall match yesterday in the observer it said that millwall would be playing the likes of portsmouth and nottingham forest next season. pretty funny.
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It actually said Forest first, get it right ;).
 
thehockleyhustler

thehockleyhustler

Stuart Pearce
Settle for mid-table?

That would be failure in my opinion. They have set a standard now they have to at least match.

We SHOULD be pushing for top 2, there is nothing to fear amongst those teams
 
Ravi

Ravi

Upper Decker
A mid-table finish would cast serious doubt over the manager's position, especially if we strengthen yet again. Playoffs minimum next season.
 
T.B.T.

T.B.T.

Forum Princess
LTLF Minion
thehockleyhustler said:
Settle for mid-table?

That would be failure in my opinion. They have set a standard now they have to at least match.

We SHOULD be pushing for top 2, there is nothing to fear amongst those teams
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I agree. At this time last season I would have been happy with an upper/mid table finish so I was delighted with finishing third despite our early bath. I still consider last season to be a success even though we fell at the last to final fence.

This next season, however, anything short of promotion will be a backwards step.

Billy will know this as well as anyone and the pressure will be on from the kick of the first ball.

We will have some interesting games this season. There's no team that I believe will present us with too much trouble and I look forward to breaking some new records. :)
 
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nffc1991

First Team Squad
I can't see us having a repeat of last season, we set the standards extremley high and I fear that the expectations may be a little too much. Certainly with a few signings we should be making the play-offs, but lets not be too dissapointed and get on the players/managers back if we don't quite make it.
 
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