If Norwich lost to Leicester in the early kickoff.

realistically we're not going up this season - so though I want us to win, I'd love to see Leicester & it looks like Southampton lose via the playoffs, so a Norwich win is what I want..

We have benefitted in the past I guess though I think the parachute payments distort the league, far too much, & needs to be stopped..
 
BobUpnDown said:
I'd love to see Leicester & it looks like Southampton lose via the playoffs,
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That would make next season much tougher for us. Leicester and Southampton will still have parachute payments. It is possible that Leicester will get hit with a points deduction but even a 10 point deduction this season would mean they are still in the play-off places.

What is best for us is that 3 teams with parachute payments go up then Luton, Sheff Utd and Burnley come back down with minimal parachute payments. That said, Forest may be such a basket case financially that getting relegated would break them. Luton planned to come straight back down so I would prefer to face Forest next season than Luton.

Other thing is that Ipswich look like they're working on the Brighton method. A huge injection of cash means that next season they will be a real threat if they spend it well.
 
We have a zero chance of play offs....just being realistic and to be fair we aren't good enough anyway...
 
in all honesty it doesnt really matter, i fear we are more than one transfer window away from having a team that will compete.

Yake Hackney and VDB out and Im not sure we have a single player that gets a game for a top 3 team
 
The fact Leicester will start next season with a points deduction will benefit us. Looking on their forum there’s talk of a fire sale regardless of promotion or not. It looks like they could be in massive trouble whatever happens this year.
 
lostinyorkshire said:
in all honesty it doesnt really matter, i fear we are more than one transfer window away from having a team that will compete.

Yake Hackney and VDB out and Im not sure we have a single player that gets a game for a top 3 team
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Yet we've shown all season we can compete v the top 6 teams, even with a huge injury list
 
BoroPhil said:
Yet we've shown all season we can compete v the top 6 teams, even with a huge injury list
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I think that although it may only look like a small gap between us and the teams 3-6, that gap costs a lot of money to bridge. To have a realistic chance of promotion via the playoffs, you're aiming for a minimum of 80 points. We'll likely end this season on around 65 points so we're looking for a minimum of 15 extra points next season just to get to the play offs. 4 more wins and 3 more draws. That's a big step up and is something we haven't managed since we got relegated. Karanka did it in 14/15 when we went from 64 points to 85 points. That required signing Clayton, Forshaw, Tomlin, Kike, Bamford, Nsue, Vossen and others. That was a huge upgrade and it's hard to see us being able to sign that level of quality in the current climate.
 
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If Lester fail to go up the consequences could be far reaching in terms of potential points deduction and needing to sell for financial compliance. So a far weaker outfit. Which means they'll take six points off us of course.
 
Bruce said:
I think that although it may only look like a small gap between us and the teams 3-6, that gap costs a lot of money to bridge. To have a realistic chance of promotion via the playoffs, you're aiming for a minimum of 80 points. We'll likely end this season on around 65 points so we're looking for a minimum of 15 extra points next season just to get to the play offs. 4 more wins and 3 more draws. That's a big step up and is something we haven't managed since we got relegated. Karanka did it in 14/15 when we went from 64 points to 85 points. That required signing Clayton, Forshaw, Tomlin, Kike, Bamford, Nsue, Vossen and others. That was a huge upgrade and it's hard to see us being able to sign that level of quality in the current climate.
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If we managed to half our injury list next season that would probably bridge most of that 15 point gap
 
Leicester have demonstrated mid table form for quite some time. I don't care if they are in the championship next season.
 
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