Yeah - the same business plan as ourselves - a manager moaned and left due to that "adequate budget" and relegation. As sure as eggs are eggs - YOYO time. Hopefully we can start the upward "YO" at Wembley but put off the downward "YO" a few seasons.

The championship is getting ever harder and going up with that Barnsley ( PW ) "team spirit" is no longer enough.

But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it - but all those that hated - dispised - misunderstood the Burnley low possession - backs to the wall tactics get ready because if we don't master it we'll be down in one season.

Wood and Warne will be out of their depth for sure - time for another trip to Ireland - although the Scottish courses are the better ones - allegedly.

Me personally would be happy in league one and go for auto matic next season

After seeing us at Wigan would I say they had more quality than us 11 v 11? No - ok that was one game, it's clear what they have is more consistent players which is what money buys you hence theirs and Blackburns points haul. We have a young group, youngsters = inconsistency, maybe the hope is that with experience they will gain the level of consistency we need. Remember Joe Skarz? - not the best left back we've ever had but would always give you a 7 out of 10. If we can get the players to perform to a level consistently we won't struggle but that's the holy grail isn't it. You can lack quality but if you can get consistency you can still do well, that's what makes football so great. For consistency you also need that in management and in the backroom staff. Changing managers every 5 minutes destroys that instantly.

I really hope we do it, we're in this position so lets have a go. Wednesday did it 2 years running, and look at them now - a mess, with some very expensive players on their books. As long as we're sensible and have learned the lessons from going up last time I see no reason why we can't compete enough to be 7th-10th from bottom.

Gonna be an interesting couple of weeks!

I think as fans we can also have more realistic expectations if we go up. Last time we were as naive as the club were. I'm 100% for going up even if we only get a season.

I'll not be overly disappointed if we don't get promoted through this season's playoffs. Automatic promotion with a large points tally would do it for me every time. On another thread I cast my doubts on our chances of promotion because we were unable to beat Charlton in the League. Charlton are now in the playoffs and due to meet Shrewsbury at home this coming Thursday. Lee Bowyer will certainly have his team fired up for that one. I'm hoping Paul Hurst can work some magic with Shrewsbury and do a job on Charlton.

Having said all that we did grind out the win over Blackpool which should now give us some confidence going into the away leg at Scunny next Saturday.

As we are a young team I worry that being promoted to the Championship so soon could break us rather than establish us as a force in that very difficult league. I still see us as a work in progress.

Apologies for putting a dampener on what is a bright and sunny Bank Holiday Monday.

UTM!

-- Edited by wotsisname on Monday 7th of May 2018 11:18:30 AM