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Ahead of this weekend’s clash with Gary Rowett’s Stoke City side, Rotherham United chairman Tony Stewart has revealed his dream of taking The Millers to the Premier League.

In an interview with Sky Sports, chairman Stewart was asked about the impossible dream of Rotherham United achieving promotion to the Premier League.

Stewart said:

“Talk to Huddersfield. Talk to Barnsley. When Huddersfield went up, we were spending the same amount as Huddersfield at that time, they went north, we went south.

“It’s not just about money. It’s about being able to maximise what you can do. There’s an element of luck – in anything, in life – but I think [it’s about] getting the right people with the right attitude to pull together, not just on the pitch but off the pitch

“I’ve had 10 years. I’m still learning but I have learnt a lot.

“Yeah – the ‘Utopia’, the ‘El Dorado’, the ‘Promised Land’, as they say. It’s a target. Like all targets in life, even though it may seem to certain fans impossible, we have to try and dream and make sure we can make the impossible possible.”

The Premier League has seen some unlikely clubs play in the top tier in recent years, with Huddersfield the most recent side to go against the odds and fight their way to the Premier League. Blackpool’s promotion to the Premier League also came to a shock to the footballing world, as Ian Holloway guided the Tangerines to the promised land in the 2009/10 season through the play-offs.

Paul Warne’s side currently sit in 19th place, just out of the relegation places after their promotion through the League One Play-Offs last season. United have never played in the Premier League since they were founded in 1925.

Tony Stewart will be dreaming that Paul Warne can guide The Millers to a highly unlikely promotion, despite staving off relegation being the priority at the New York City Stadium.

tony we all have the same dream but unless you provide or get some serious funding in place this dream will always remain a dream. yes bournemouth did it with a small fan base but skirted the fair play rules and got caught out in the end.

 

 

 

 



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I have a mental image of Warne reading that interview and sighing very deeply. Warne has made no bones about the fact that staying up would be a massive achievement. I suspect that all right minded supporters understand that reality. Now in the context of Tony Stewarts interview (unless I have read it wrong) 21st place would look a bit like failure. It seems to be the opposite of managing expectations. But Tony is a very successful man and he must know what he is doing. I defer to him! He has earned the right to say just about anything g hr wants as far as I am concerned.

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I agree with you - in the end it's about how much risk he is prepared to take.

I've argued, we all have, that as a business man we would expect him to take a 'risk v reward' view.. which means he needs to take a few more risks on signing players like KM... 

We're all very happy with where we are just now, but we need to establish ourselves as able to stay in this league - then build (or get lucky) and dream from there. But the Dream can't start from the basis of a squad that is possibly good enough to stay up (maybe) but in no way is good enough to 'get lucky' at this level...

BUT - we definitely all share the dream!! 

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Oh shut up Tony please it's embarrassing

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There is that Brad.

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My thoughts

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What a wasted opportunity to appeal to the Rotherham public rather than some unicorn poo scraped up from Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree.

Where are the rallying calls? E.g.

We're totally unrecognisable than what we were 2yrs ago never mind 10 when I rescued the club, don't believe me come to our amazing stadium and watch Champ football, the 5th best league in Europe - playing in Rotherham!

Off the field we recognised the infrastructure wasn't in line with attracting better players, we've invested heavily in Roundwood to create a fitting workplace for our players and staff, where they spend 90% of their worktime to deliver a better product on a Saturday afternoon.

Night games are something else, and gaining a reputation, on such and such an eve against XXXX we've got a quid a kid offer - get down to New York and see what we're about.

In the community we've dramatically improved our youth and communty footprint, we are now a XYZ level academy with UEFA B & A Coaches, we firmly believe in investing in bringing local lads through to the 1st team.



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There is that too. Its Almost as if being on The Championship isn't enough. Its like Huddersfield's chairman sating that they are targeting winning the Premier League. After all, Leicester did it. You're right Ex - its a PR own goal.

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Sorry Tony but you’re starting to sound addled. For your information we’ve come to terms with our financial constraint and accepted the necessity to invariably play defensively in order to survive in this league and then you come out with all that Premier League nonsense. Very bizarre and yes, rather embarrassing.



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Anybody reading my last post might think I was addled. Sorry for the typos.

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totally agree didnt he come out with same sound bites the year we was relegated.

we al understand your are on sales pitch, but the sales pitch you need is the performance on the pitch and getting championship quality players instead of bargain basement

Rotherham spend 10M of players that would get people to sit up

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100% spot on

 



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People keep having a pop at TS but what about the Rotherham public? When are they going to put some money into the club, our attendances so far have been shocking.

All well and good trying to spend money on championship players but if we are only mustering 7,000 home fans in one of the best divisions in Europe it’s not financially viable.

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C you raise a good point, but it is a chicken and egg situation isn't it. If we had brought in one or two headline making players, then we would have likely had more fans turn up to see them and because they would believe the board are committed

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I'm not sure even a couple of very good signings would make that much difference to our attendance Derby. i just don't think the wider public care for the club, also doesn't help when a lot from the town choose to follow the two Sheffield clubs.

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Success. Thats what the vast majority of Rotherham football watching public want to see, as Derby says, it is the chicken and egg. Right now I'd suggest the inertia of the public is based on a cynical view of the club having promised so much in the past, right back from the Porterfield days when we all thought we had returned to our rightful league, but it it all ended in tears. Since then its been promotion followed by relegation and neigh on extinction; we've been up and down more times than a brides nighty. Then add to that the non transfer fiascos and manager fiascos over the last few seasons and now not having a fit CB to our name, all conspire to make the Rotherham public probably the most cynical in the country.

I wholeheartedly agree the attendances are disgraceful, particularly when you look at the numbers willing to travel to Wembley to wave the flag and cheer, but you know that most will be saying 'We've seen and heard it all before'

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