Quote Originally Posted by Divine Wright View Post
Just to continue this "debate" a little....Would anyone prefer to be 12th in the Championship instead of 12th in the Premier League. And is finishing 12th in the Premier League, maybe even consistently so, such an impossibility ?
Finishing 12th is a possibility but that's as good as it's ever going to get. That's the issue. It isn't as simple as saying 12th in the Championship or 12th in the Prem because we should never be in a position where 12th in the Championship is as good as it will ever get. We've not finished lower than 12th for years. We're not a Burton, Rotherham etc, we should always be challenging and for the last ten years we have been.

In the Championship, we can compete, finish between 1st and 16th and kick on. In the Prem, we'd have a great season if we came 15th. It would get tiring after a while because there's not a cat in hell's chance we could compete with the top 6, or even the chasing 3/4.