Why would relegation (if we are relegated) bother you?

[Tempest]

Will you actually miss the PL?
Or is the it grief you'll get from colleagues for a while?
Money the club earn?

Football is football, in the PL or League 2, lower down you go the more honest it becomes.

Apart from the inevitable grief I'll get for a a while, mostly from Reading fans who I might have made a comment or two towards when they got relegated I don't mind. Then again in my job, most of my clients are female at the moment so no real footie talk going on. Lots of plus points, the season starts earlier, more games, you'd hope we'll actually win more, more winable derby games. Its feasible and possibly expected we'll win more games in the Championship next season than we have the last 2 seasons in the PL combined (18 to date).

So whilst I hope we stay up, not all bad if we don't.

[Bedford White]

Most of your clients are women? You've got me wondering whether perhaps you're a male/female escort!  Back to the question, whether we stay up or not will impact the club financially but there may be positives as you have stated.
I'd like to think that we'll be in a league where there is something real we can play for. The Prem is great, it's the big time but we'll never be able to compete unless hundreds of millions of pounds are spent and realistically that isn't going to happen.
Small is beautiful and I'm profundity of my club regardless of which competition we're playing in.

[Eggs for Breakfast]

We feel good when we win and down when we lose.  Even finishing above the bottom three in the PL means one has far more downs than ups.  So, as you say, not all bad if we do get relegated.  Also, we are in a good position to have a successful year in the Championship - excellent young players who, if combined with some experienced ones, will produce some exciting football.  And, I think, a manager who will organise us well.

[Fulhampete]

The future of Fulham is what matters. If the clowns who have been responsible for this season continue in charge I worry. I am quite happy to spend a few years in the Championship to restore some optimism in the club. To go lower would take a serious effort to recover. Big changes are needed all round, what are the clubs objectives????????

[Lighthouse]

This must be an April Fool post.

I don't care what other people say and football at the highest level is better than at a lower one. To be relegated because of three years of neglect is shameful. We had the chance to make our selves a great Fulham team but instead have a shambles.

Yes it is more honest the lower you go but honesty on a muddy pitch on a wet Wednesday night in Doncaster doesn't feel great. To allow us to end up with kids up front fighting a relegation battle and three managers in a season. Well we should have just shot ourselves it would have been quicker.  090.gif

[Twig]

This must be an April Fool post.

I don't care what other people say and football at the highest level is better than at a lower one. To be relegated because of three years of neglect is shameful. We had the chance to make our selves a great Fulham team but instead have a shambles.

Yes it is more honest the lower you go but honesty on a muddy pitch on a wet Wednesday night in Doncaster doesn't feel great. To allow us to end up with kids up front fighting a relegation battle and three managers in a season. Well we should have just shot ourselves it would have been quicker.  090.gif

:plus one:

[St Eve]

There are no positives in going down

[NorfolkJim]

Provided we don't do a Portsmouth - Or the owner doesn't see it a chance to get into property developing while moving us together with QPR - It would at least mean we had something to play for instead of just being satisfied to be an also ran as long as the big names wafted into town from time to time.
It would save me a sky sports subscription - I'd probably attend more aways than now - it would not bother me all that much except for the fear of sinking lower still and getting merged with someone. Being cherry picked wouldn't be very nice either.
In some ways it looks as if Felix is trying people out for next seasons promotion push  :016:

[jarv]

I am with Mr. LH. The management shambles is shameful. (and embarrassing). I wonder how these muppets feel when they look in the mirror and think about the jop they have done. If you or I performed so poorly in our job, we would be sacked. (Well, technically I wouldn't because I own my business but you know what I mean) :005:

However,  I enjoyed attending in the 70s. Mullery, Mitchell, Best Marsh Moore etc in the 2nd division. Great atmosphere, good football and we were mostly in the top 6 at the end of the season.

It would bother me because no games on tv over here when not in the prem. I will still attend when I fly in.

Question....can I get GJ on the site when we are in D2.??

[St Eve]

It wasn't much fun when we went straight through to the old 3rd division and then the 4th and nearly lost the Cottage and then waited almost 40 years to get into the top flight

[Apprentice to the Maestro]

The idea that we will immediately bounce back or that we will spend a couple of years at the top of the Championship building on the youth before roaring back is a matter of hope and faith.

But there are a number of problems: we are on a downward spiral unless there is a sudden, dramatic change of fortune to end our season with at least some positive results; there will be a large turnover of players in the summer so we will need a good pre-season; the Championship is tough - there are a lot of `big' clubs (those of at least our size) with  history and PL experience, some with serious money, who will also be trying to make it back to the PL plus the two clubs who will be going down with us. Last time momentum was going in our favour and we had a manager who had a plan and positive atmosphere, something that we are not seeing as yet.

[Deanothefulhamfan]

I will miss streaming us here in China....

Will miss the premier league but will enjoy us competing again, with a young side with bags of pace and energy....

I think we will come back up, Khan will bankroll us and we will see some really decent attacking football at the cottage again.

[nose]

Being in the Premiership is wonderful, like a number of ithers here I have supported since we were in the top flight in the 60s and being in the lower leagues is horrible, it is a great thing to sit at the top table and watch the best players.

In the top tier you have a chance to attract the best and pit your wits against the best, a full house every game and away games to savour not hartelpool or bury (no offence to them they are very fine clubs but just not prestigious in the same way as arsenal or man city)

and worst of all, it didn't have to be this way, I thought we wer done with sort of thing, certainly for a few more years.

[FPT]

For me, and being in my first year of university, not being able to watch games will pain me.

I'm not going to talk about a prospective promotion push, as I'm going to have the Khan and AliMac out douche bags down my neck.

[Baszab]

April fool post for certain

[Logicalman]

The fact that all we can usually get here with any consistency is the Prem league on TV, then I'll miss being able to watch my team every week of the season.

I might even have to subscribe to my sworn enemy, Fox, again to have some probability to see us play. Apart from the 3 grand it costs to come over with the missus for a game, of course.

[Admin]

I want Fulham up there with the elite full stop, who wouldn't?

[Herbie]

Regardless of how bad a situation is, there are always positives that can be taken from it.  At the very least it is the lesson that can be learnt not to let it happen again.

For me, if we go down, it will hurt and it will be annoying that we won't get as many column inches in the press as the 2 sentences that we currently get.  However, I won't miss 'pundits' like Lawro talking about Fulham.

Ultimately, we will still be playing football on a Saturday afternoon. My understanding is that we are in a good situation with regards to debt as Mo converted the debt owed to him into equity. Therefore, although there will be an initial bump to deal with in terms of wages vs income, we should be on a relatively solid footing financially. With regards to the football side, I hold a lot of hope in the fact that we have a kick arse youth setup which is on the verge of bearing some seriously juicy fruit. I think our academy will feed the nucleus of out first team squad over the next 5-10 years.

So, yes it will hurt like hell if we go down, but it won't be the end of the world for me. All together now,  :HD: "always look on the bright side of life"

[K33NY]

Many say its no positives going, many says its possitive to go down, personally I have a split feeling.

Going down could be a serious wake up call, to the owner and CEO and general leadership at Fulham, on how NOT to run a club, a overhaul of the team, and general focus of how to do stuff will be changed, and with Khan's money I think we will allso get many new players, and can bounce back along with our youth, in many similar ways like Southampton did, I dont remember who said it right now but it could be Claus Lundekvam, he said Fulham has the possibilites and talented youths to take the club back up, along with SOME experienced players, but not like today. Today its a to wide age spectre at the club, its not fluid enough. (OR was it maybe Thomas Myhre though he wasnt at Southampton he was on TV2 studio this weekend) :P


But its allso a big risk for any club to go down, if there is no focus of trying to make the club bigger, and to make it attractive, no money spent to restore the team etc, the team can end up in Championship for a longer time, but Fulham was sold to Khan, dept free, all loans payed wich is a very important factor finacnially should we go down! The Riverside Stand expansion, is allso confirmed now, this will allow more attendance to matches, wich will generate more money!

Allthough this CAN be done if we survive as well, but I think our man Mr. Khan is experienced enough as buisiness man that he wont buy and run anything to lose money and interest but to gain it, look at Jaguars, it was total chaos there as well, but from what I read lately more and more stability has come to the Jaguars this year as well.

I will miss watching Fulham play as often on TV/Streams as much as I did before, but if we should go down, I think for the future it will be a wake up call, and a good thing in the long term, do we stay up, it will be better. But I cant see us end up like Birminhgam, Leeds, Portsmouth, where basically money was the main cause for relegation. We do have a rich enough man to get us up again!

[Cravenawin]

 Sure i would miss the Premier League, but to me, the team we had when we won the old first division 14 years ago produced the best football I've ever seen in the fourty years I've followed Fulham. Going down will feel like hell, but once the hurt has subsided, I'm sure everyone who loves our unique club will be excited about the good times that may lie ahead. We've all had enough of going home depressed on a Saturday. Let's all go home feeling good for a change. The championship isn't as bad as some are making out.