promotion or win fa cup?

Zoophonic said:
Think we all do but I certainly remember the following season in the Premier League and how miserable I was seeing us slowly surrender week after week.
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That is what I meant the premier league season was terrible. Prefer the championship to the premier league.
 
OK, try it another way.

Pretend that we only have two games left this season, the FA Cup Final and the Play Off Final.
Both against Stoke
If you can only win one of them, which would you choose?
 
Rofesleg said:
OK, try it another way.

Pretend that we only have two games left this season, the FA Cup Final and the Play Off Final.
Both against Stoke
If you can only win one of them, which would you choose?
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It's the same answer....FACup.
Why wouldn't it be ?
 
Nobby_Barnes said:
It's the same answer....FACup.
Why wouldn't it be ?
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I think he's tried to clarify it for those whose answer is along the lines of "promotion because we're very unlikely to win the FA cup" 😁

Yeah it's FA cup, same answer to pretty much the same question.
 
Rofesleg said:
Sorry, it was a question mainly for Coluka.
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You can’t choose though, football does not work that way. I appreciate people are trying to offer up all sorts of scenarios to see if I will magically change my mind. I would try to win both but equally understand we could lose both. I see promotion as an opportunity to access the PL money and hope and expect it will be spent much more wisely than last time around that could turn us into an established PL team (difficult as that would be) who then grew to realistically be challenging for cups and European football on a reasonably regular basis. I understand we are unlikely to ever be a top 6 team, but the cups could become sustained real possibilities again with better players.

I accept my view is more strategic and long term rather than short term but I think it is doable and affordable although not guaranteed.
 
coluka said:
You can’t choose though, football does not work that way. I appreciate people are trying to offer up all sorts of scenarios to see if I will magically change my mind. I would try to win both but equally understand we could lose both. I see promotion as an opportunity to access the PL money and hope and expect it will be spent much more wisely than last time around that could turn us into an established PL team (difficult as that would be) who then grew to realistically be challenging for cups and European football on a reasonably regular basis. I understand we are unlikely to ever be a top 6 team, but the cups could become sustained real possibilities again with better players.

I accept my view is more strategic and long term rather than short term but I think it is doable and affordable although not guaranteed.
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OK, would you rather have a tiny head and a normal body or a tiny body and a normal head?
 
Rofesleg said:
OK, would you rather have a tiny head and a normal body or a tiny body and a normal head?
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You've got to look at the whole picture. If you had a normal body but a tiny head, could you make it sustainable in the long term? Alternatively, if the ultimate outcome is to have a sustainable normal head/body combination, then the best approach could be to have the head normal to begin with, as a body can be built up but a head can't be.

Or you could just answer the question as written ffs.
 
coluka said:
I appreciate the point and as much as I love the Championship over what the first few years would be like in the Premier League, but if we could sustain our presence like say Leicester, who have proven it can be done (winning both league and cup). Compare our journeys since our League Cup Final, although I accept they are the exception not the rule though and to achieve it would be a struggle. I guess I have my pragmatic head on today though.
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I think they're more than an exception: they're a miracle. No pragmatist could plan to replicate what they have achieved.

For the record, I still don't think they've reached a state of being fully established in the PL despite winning it. Here they are, 6 points off the relegation zone and falling fast. Probably too many teams between them and the bottom for them really to get into trouble, but I said when they won the league they'd be relegated within 10 years, and I still believe that.

For clubs like ours it will always be about the big moments. That is the big picture, and it's why I'd take the cup over promotion any day.
 
I know I'm in the minority but I would rather win the cup than the premiership.
Something magical about the cup that for me the premiership just does not have.
It's just how I feel that's all.
 
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