A spell in division one?

[wakefieldstokie]

It’s seems an horrendous thought, but is it the reset we need?

[StokieNath]

I think we really need someone else running the club, the rot and mould is there.

[generationex]

Like the reset when we dropped from the Prem?

[prestwichpotter]

Absolutely not…..

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Jan 2, 2023 17:28:40 GMT wakefieldstokie said:

It’s seems an horrendous thought, but is it the reset we need?

No is it fuck, but it's where we are heading.

[hoppo96]

it won' work, we don't learn anything. Our 'wonderful' owners will just throw money at it again. We'll be expected to be grateful for them.

[pieofpeter]

Nope but we're definitely in a relegation battle.

[cvillestokie]

You may as well ask if we should just go bust and start again.

No, I don’t want to watch us play even worse football against even worse opposition any time soon.

I don’t see how going backwards will help us go forwards.

[bayernoatcake]

People said it about the Championship. It’s a daft notion.

[liathroid]

Jan 2, 2023 17:28:40 GMT wakefieldstokie said:

It’s seems an horrendous thought, but is it the reset we need?

the last few years were a reset and look at us now

[thevoid]

There are clubs in League 1 currently who will reach the Premier League before we do again

[clarkeda]

People (including me) said that when we came down from the prem.

That’s going well so far isn’t it….

Getting relegated is never the answer.

[xchpotter]

The more I look at it the more I think it’s necessary…..lance the festering boil once and for all.

[cheadlepotter]

“At least we’ll win more games”

[chamberlain]

League 1 is where we are heading make no mistake. We are a very poor side just beaten by a Preston team that were worse than us but still managed to find a way to win .

[LGH87]

Jan 2, 2023 17:35:24 GMT clarkeda said:

People (including me) said that when we came down from the prem.

That’s going well so far isn’t it….

Getting relegated is never the answer.

Would it make the board finally realise they are no longer fit for purpose though and spark them in to changing their ways?

[dwr17477]

Jan 2, 2023 17:34:55 GMT thevoid said:

There are clubs in League 1 currently who will reach the Premier League before we do again

Scary but true.

[peterthornesboots]

Jan 2, 2023 17:28:40 GMT wakefieldstokie said:

It’s seems an horrendous thought, but is it the reset we need?

This is exactly what some people were saying when we were looking at dropping out of the Premier League.

Now look at us.

If we get relegated it would take decades before we get back on our feet.

[PotterLog]

Fast forward four years... "do we need a spell in League 2"

[bridgnorthstokie]

Jan 2, 2023 17:28:40 GMT wakefieldstokie said:

It’s seems an horrendous thought, but is it the reset we need?

Didn't some say that when we sleepwalked out of the Premier league

[fca47]

Think it's called relagation not reset. It's pretty obvious John Coates should hand over the recruitment of managers to someone else.

[scfcno1fan]

I said the same in the Prem.

I couldn’t have been anymore wrong.

It would be an utter disaster to go down to league 1.

I honestly don’t think we will mind. Wigan and Blackpool will go down and whilst I’m not sure of the 3rd place, i think we’ll just scrape by.

Next year very much worries me already.

[lordb]

We are not a yo yo club

A 'spell' in league 1 would be 4 years minimum

[wuzza]

Jan 2, 2023 17:49:19 GMT lordb said:

We are not a yo yo club

A 'spell' in league 1 would be 4 years minimum

Before we get relegated again ?

[chigstoke]

Jan 2, 2023 17:28:40 GMT wakefieldstokie said:

It’s seems an horrendous thought, but is it the reset we need?

How far do we go with this? Do we do it every time we play bad in a league?

A spell in the National League, is it the reset we need?

[dirtclod]

No

No it's not.

We'd take 37 years to climb back out of it.
Just look at the quagmire THIS league is.
Looks to me like the mud gets stickier the lower you go.
And FFP (Yes Claudia, it's STILL here) helps to enforce the quagmire.

[onionman]

I was not one of those people who wanted relegation from the Premier League. I thought those people were idiots as we had only a slim chance of bouncing back quickly.

This time I honestly don't know. My ambitions are fairly low. I just want to watch a Stoke team go on a decent run (something like 5 wins and 2 draws from 7 games, maybe) even if we finish lower mid-table. I want to see a Stoke striker score 20 goals in a season, even if they are mainly consolation goals. I want us to play an FA Cup game against higher league opposition and give them a bit of a scare before losing narrowly. I want to look at a league table and discover we're only 3 good wins away from the play-off positions. I want us to sign a player on loan who does so well he gets recalled by his parent club. I want us to go into a home game against the bottom-placed team knowing we have a 50-50 chance of getting at least a point.

Frankly, nothing as good as this is ever going to happen for us in a division as difficult as the Championship. If we go down to League One, we might at least be able to tick one of those boxes. Bring it on I say.

[mcw]

Jan 2, 2023 17:28:40 GMT wakefieldstokie said:

It’s seems an horrendous thought, but is it the reset we need?

Erm I think that was the thinking when we got relegated from the Premiership, we need to avoid relegation at all costs!!! Could be stuck down there for 4/5 seasons at this rate….

[mtrstudent]

Can't wait to read "maybe a spell in league 2 is just what we need" as I'm getting over Nye hangover in 2027!

[banksy1art]

And play Vale? Fuck that