Beginners Guide To The Championship

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Come Boro and Toon fans! This is not a mickey take thread

I honestly don't know "THAT" much about the league we are now in

So,

Who are the big teams minus the 3 premier teams relegated?
The ones to watch for promotion?
Whats a big transfer fee?
Star strikers wage?

Etc etc

Cheers all
 
Boro probably have more chance of getting out of it as they actually have experience in the league.

There's no easy games unlike the Prem, the quality of football isn't that different between the top and bottom sides.
Newcastle will have it hard as every side will want to beat you, like it is in the Prem with Man U, League 1 with Leeds. Grounds will be packed every game as you're a big side. Not easy.
 
indeed, much discussion at work entailed that Boro are much better prepared to maybe not get out, but consolidate their position and then build. Their youth system is stronger and we will be the "cup final / scalp" ala Leeds
 
I think Newcastles wage bill will be the biggest factor, think i heard that there are 8 players on 50k+ with no relegation clause. Who's going to want to buy any of them that could match the money they are on now.
 
I don't support Newcastle but I don't want to see them screwed below the premier league for too long. They don't deserve it. They just need to get more player who play for the badge and aren't just wannabe popstars.
 
studiothree said:
They just need to get more player who play for the badge and aren't just wannabe popstars.
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They also need stability. It's no wonder people laugh at them when they sack managers for fun, sign big names on huge wages and don't plan for the future. They're the Happy Shopper to Real Madrids Harrods.

Hopefully a few seasons in the Championship will give them the reality check they so desperately need and they'll return to the Premiership a much better club for it.
 
da_mic_1530 said:
Come Boro and Toon fans! This is not a mickey take thread

I honestly don't know "THAT" much about the league we are now in

So,

Who are the big teams minus the 3 premier teams relegated?
The ones to watch for promotion?
Whats a big transfer fee?
Star strikers wage?

Etc etc

Cheers all
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the Championship is a very close league, a good start can see you top of the League, a few bad games you're back down in the mire.

All the teams are very close, and the standard of football is very high across the board, add a lot of good players, good managers and you've got a really good League.

there are 24 "big" teams in this League, all the clubs enjoy a good level of support :p

I honestly don't know who to watch for promotion, I'll tell you at a later point, after I've seen who's bought who.

A "big" transfere would be a few million, The Championship might be blessed with having the odd game on Sky, but the level of spending is very low compared the Premiership, you're also going to see a fair few English players ;)
 
Quite looking forward to going to away games in the Championship, see some grounds I havent sampled yet and no more glory fans to put up with ;)

Boro obviously know what relegation feels like and we managed to come straight back up last time but I really cant see it happening this time round, the Championship appears to be a lot stronger than it was back in 97 with teams able to beat anyone, and I also dont think we have the players with the right mentality to do the business.
 
studiothree said:
I don't support Newcastle but I don't want to see them screwed below the premier league for too long. They don't deserve it. They just need to get more player who play for the badge and aren't just wannabe popstars.
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I don't agree. I think they do deserve it actually. The fans don't, but for the way the club has been run, with the sacking of Big Sam, who lets face it would have kept them up. To the dismissal of Keegan, to the whole Dennis wise and appointing someone who clearly wasn't in the fittest of states, it's just a calamity of errors.
 
studiothree said:
I don't support Newcastle but I don't want to see them screwed below the premier league for too long. They don't deserve it. They just need to get more player who play for the badge and aren't just wannabe popstars.
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Why does a team not "deserve" to be playing in the second tier of English football ?

Newcastle, on first glance do deserve to be down in the Championship, they've had a very bad season, they've made a lot of mistakes on and off the pitch and relegation is a fitting end to the season.

You're dissmissing the Championship as a bad place to be, I dissagree, I love watching the Championship, it's a really good league.

The players they've got might not want to play in the Championship because they think it's below them (based on this season its probably where they're at) so Newcastle will be spending big money to remove dead wood from the club, they need to bring through some youngsters as they have a massive area of the country to themselves and they need to sort out things off the pitch.

They've enjoyed high crowds for a good few seasons in the Premier league and I don't expect that to change, I do expect the attitude of the fans to change.

They might finally see that they're not a good club or a good team, there are other "big" clubs down in the lower leagues of English football, Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United, Leeds, Nottingham Forest, Preston, Derby...

Leeds are in the third tier of English football and are still pulling in Premier league crowds.
 
It's hard to ever say who'll be contenders in the Championship before it starts, partly because it changes by six teams every season, but also because it's a pretty tight league. The season before Hull City went up they survived relegation one game before the end. That same season, Watford, Bristol City and Crystal Palace were the other play-off teams, and this season they're all mid-table.

That said, my early bets are on West Brom and Swansea doing well. The former will be unlikely to lose anyone, unless it's the rumoured £4.5m for Brunt, which would be an absolute jackpot for them, and the latter will simply build on what they already have.
 
Weebull said:
That said, my early bets are on West Brom and Swansea doing well. The former will be unlikely to lose anyone, unless it's the rumoured £4.5m for Brunt, which would be an absolute jackpot for them, and the latter will simply build on what they already have.
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Who'd be silly enough to pay that much for him ?
 
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