Hello everybody 🙂 I know this is a hypothetical question, but IF North End had made the play-off's AND won them, how do you good people feel as to what sort of journey adventure we would have had in term's of result's/final posit in the premier league ?? My thought's are with a possible £20 million ?? transfer fund & an increased wage structure, we could have stayed up. What I thought was, if we take out the home & away matches against the top six team's (Man C, Man U, Liverpool, Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal) as 0 pointer's, that would leave us to get 40 point's ?? from the remaining 26 matches, which could be achieved with 12 win's & 4 draw's or 11 win's & 7 draw's. I honestly think we could've surprised many team's with our skill, pace & endeavour & have given next season in the premier league a right good go.
What if ... ???
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It's fun to speculate - I imagine it would have been tough to be sure
If Bournemouth and Brighton could stay up so could we. But the important thing would be not to saddle ourselves with a wages structure that would cripple us if we did come back down so that we could regroup and attempt to go back up and not plummet downwards as Sunderland did this season and as also I recall a little earlier did a team who play in tangerine shirts by the Fylde Coast.
Thanks for your replies guy's, I appreciate it as I know it's a hypothetical question. Yeah, I totally agree with the fear of us trying too hard financially to compete, as it would be crazy to achieve our goal of going up & then scoring a hatfull of own goal's in dealing with the consequences of spending too much money on the chance of staying up. I think it would've been fair to our current player's, the one's who played 75%+ of our season's matches to have given them wages of £15,000 p/w in the prem, with a good bonus if we stayed up, but with a 33% drop (£10,000 p/w maximum) if we went down.
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What on earth makes you think PNE could achieve 7 more wins in the Premier, than they achieved this year in the Championship?
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Thanks for your reply Garden Gnome, I appreciate it mate. I've just seen WADSH's comment & thought 'What ?!?!'. If PNE won 7 more games in the premier league than we did this season (19), we'd be in the next season's champion's league the season after !! 🙂 Aye Marsbars, we would get hammered in a few games, infact maybe 6 or 7 of them 12 games that I counted for, but we could of won maybe 6 games at home & 4 or 5 away against the rest. If we did go down & Yeah, I'd say it was at least a 70% chance, you're right mate, with a few quid in the bank & the 3 parachute payment's aswell, we could be very competitive in the Championship's top end more often than not for quite a few season's.
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Not sure who you mean Ernest; I thought that Fleetwood Town played in red and white?
Some of the bigger teams may give us a odd hammering, but don't think it will happen every week. If we went up we wouldn't need to change the entire squad. 4/5 key players and maybe a few squad signings. We want to go down the burnley or bournemouth route. Too many times teams get promoted and think they need 11/12 signings and usually end up going down. Team spirit is key and we have that in abundance. Lets hope it happens next season providing we keep this group of players together.