I think we can stay up and have a good cup run but if you had to choose one or the other .To stay up or win the fa cup what would it be ?.
Quote from: Finnans Right Peg on January 13, 2021, 07:55:31 AM
I think we can stay up and have a good cup run but if you had to choose one or the other .To stay up or win the fa cup what would it be ?.
Stay up.
Stay up.
Yeah me too I was thinking how nice it would be to actually win something but we need to stay up
FA Cup. Medals on the table not how much cash in the bank for me.
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Stay up.
Relegation can have devastating short and long term effects on the club.
It would obviously be great to win something for the first time in our history, but if we went down the same season it wouldn't be as sweet, and might leave a bit of a bitter taste, because you'd always be thinking 'maybe we'd have stayed up without the Cup run.'
At this stage with the players we have I would like us to stay up and push on for better things next season, becoming a regular Premiership team again with a complete premiership squad, will be the best way to bring possible cup medals back to the club.
Top 8 or higher finish would be good.
It's terrible but yes, to stay up is in the clubs best interest v winning the cup however to win our first ever major trophy after 100 plus years, 'should' be the preferred option. What a world we live in !
Why opt for one or the other when it is still possible to have both?
Im just holding my breath until the reintroduction of the intertoto
Stay Up 100%
I wonder whether Wigan supporters wish they had not won the FA Cup but stayed up instead.
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So many ifs and buts. If you win the FA Cup and get relegated, who knows, maybe you'll go back up the next season, and be able to attract good enough players with the higher profile to stay up for a longer spell. If you stay up, you may go down the following year a la Huddersfield and peter out. Winning the FA Cup is forever. I say winning the FA Cup by 51-49.
FA Cup 100%. We can always come back up, but a club like ours would need to take any major trophy if there was a chance.
Staying in the Premier League is fundamental to progressing as a club with a longer term aim of being competitive in both domestic cups and Europe.
Whats the fascination with staying up? Historically, we've had a good couple of seasons but on the whole its relegation battles or mid table mediocrity.
We win, even in a good year, no more than 10 games.
As fans, I don't see how we benefit before someone says club finance. Better players? I'd say we've wasted, like a lot of clubs, good money on bang average players.
Championship, League 1 or 2 for me is better, win more games, play offs, Championship wins, the odd relegation but again we would still win more games being relegated with 45 points from the championship than staying up in the Premier League.
And yes, I was around in the good old bad days of nearly going out of business.
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FA Cup but only if we could attend.This may happen yet.
Stay up: I don't want to continue yo-yoing between leagues. We will only build if we can stabilise our position.
A cup would be tremendous, but it didn't help Pompy nor Wigan's trajectory after their victories...
Quote from: Tempest on January 13, 2021, 09:28:30 AM
Whats the fascination with staying up? Historically, we've had a good couple of seasons but on the whole its relegation battles or mid table mediocrity.
We win, even in a good year, no more than 10 games.
As fans, I don't see how we benefit before someone says club finance. Better players? I'd say we've wasted, like a lot of clubs, good money on bang average players.
Championship, League 1 or 2 for me is better, win more games, play offs, Championship wins, the odd relegation but again we would still win more games being relegated with 45 points from the championship than staying up in the Premier League.
And yes, I was around in the good old bad days of nearly going out of business.
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What's the fascination with staying up you say ? Take a look at Leicester and what they have achieved. Not a dissimilar sized club to Fulham and still punching at the top end of the table. Surely it's better to be ambitious rather than languishing in the lower divisions and possibly making the odd EFL Trophy final or the ridiculously named Papa John's Trophy as it's called this season ! If we were able to consolidate our position in the Premier League it would allow us to recruit the sort of players that could see us win more games in the league and we could also be a regular Europa League challenger. What's not to like about that ?
A no brainer, stay up means our best players stay with us and 38 big matches next season.
Would be nice to have our name on a piece of historic silverware.
No one will remember we avoided relegation in 20/21 in 20 years time and there won't be any official recognition of such.
Glass half full, we reach Cup final and stay up.....beating Spurs in the final !!
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Quote from: mrmicawbers on January 13, 2021, 09:40:28 AM
FA Cup but only if we could attend.This may happen yet.
This. To see our club win an FA Cup final at Wembley would be a once in a lifetime experience. As important as Premier League survival is, ultimately promotions and demotions come and go. Plus there were plenty on this board who argued that they actually preferred life in the Championship (I'm not one of them but I get it).
We can do both if we get a good striker in.
always stay up is the priority if only one is on offer BUT I agree why not both. Success usually begats success.
Quote from: toshes mate on January 13, 2021, 08:50:51 AM
Why opt for one or the other when it is still possible to have both?
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We've kept the spine of the team that got us promoted. I guess as insurance against relegation. So why not.
FA Cup for me
Quote from: RaySmith on January 13, 2021, 08:44:12 AM
Stay up.
Relegation can have devastating short and long term effects on the club.
It would obviously be great to win something for the first time in our history, but if we went down the same season it wouldn't be as sweet, and might leave a bit of a bitter taste, because you'd always be thinking 'maybe we'd have stayed up without the Cup run.'
Wigan being a case in point.
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Stay Up - we had a good cup run in '75. Lets just get a top flight side together and maintain out presence there, medals and cups can come later, don't want to do a Pompey!
I honestly don't understand the question. I mean how would any of us feel if we won an FA Cup and within the same time frame of a few weeks we were relegated? We would all feel so empty and lost. Idk, for me the goal is simple: win games. Just win the next game and don't worry about silly hypothetical questions.
FA cup for me, I get staying PL.
