22/23 Pundits predictions thread.

NTT20 have us 19th.

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Originally Posted by Rjk

I'm willing to bet we were running a wage bill a lot higher than it is now though

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Slade slashed about 10m off the wage bill. If we get off to a ropey start, Morison won't last long. He'll start gunning for people and that'll be that.

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Originally Posted by Carl Dale's Mole

I've listened to "Second Tier", "The ChampionshipChat Podcast" and just finished "Not The Top 20 Podcast" and they all have us finishing in the same part of the table, just a few spots above relegation.

They all pretty much have the same Top 6 as well.

Here's the last one's prediction table. They also predict League 1 & 2 but the Championship is always their most accurate each year:

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One thing I noticed in each of the podcasts is the recurring theme of, "if they manage to bring in a good striker or two then they'll shoot up the table." Said that for so many teams which makes me wonder if our neighbours will do well with Piroe and Obafemi ready to go :puke:

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That table looks upside down. Ami rite?

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Originally Posted by Pearcey3

That table looks upside down. Ami rite?

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Has anyone predicted anything other than a Reading Birmingham bottom 2?

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Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa

Has anyone predicted anything other than a Reading Birmingham bottom 2?

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Not that I’m aware of.

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

I’d say a couple of double figure strikers would have us in the top ten, but, let’s be honest, is it really going to happen at a club that has, with one exception, been woeful at signing goal scorers in the last ten years?

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a Peter Thorne will do me just fine. Bloody good footballer & a really nice bloke as well.

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Originally Posted by Des Parrot

a Peter Thorne will do me just fine. Bloody good footballer & a really nice bloke as well.

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Yeah, he'd be perfect in a side like this one - he was a footballer and a target man whose heading ability was as good as any forward we've had here in the twenty first century I'd say. I'm among those who wouldn't be bothered if we didn't recruit a big lump type target man, but a Thorne type would be so useful defending the near post at corners - that's something we look short of at the moment.

Three Wales Online hacks have us finishing between tenth and twelfth - apparently we made a "languid" start to last season, that's hardly the word which springs into my mind when I remember last autumn :hehe:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/...tions-24464574

Jobi McAnuff has us as a surprise package in this preview. Makes me hate the Adams injury even more:

Who will be the surprise package this season and why?

"The other club I fancy is Cardiff City. There have been lots of departures and lots of new faces in. Ebou Adams from Forest Green is a player I know well, I think is a really good signing and he provides an energy they lacked last season, as do some of their other recruits. I’d expect them to have a much better season and cause a few teams problems. "

https://www.efl.com/news/2022/july/c...p-predictions/