EFL Championship Thread

[NathDogg]

If we do go, they will prob bring in var just to help us on our way to league 1!

 

[Mr K.Dilkington]

No one knows what will happen - we could be taken over by a Oil state tomorrow then suddenly everyone's buzzing even if we go down.

I just dont see the point crying about something thats not happened yet/you have no control over.

Shut the forum down lads, FB has spoken,.

 

[gorgeousgeorgeEFC]

If we had had this self-defeating attitude before we played Wimbledon in 1994 we’d have been relegated then.

Relegation simply can’t happen. It would destroy our already perilous finances, it would end the stadium project and it would potentially rob us of almost all the support in our city, particularly from the youngsters. Championship clubs get almost no media coverage, to the point that my little lad has never even heard of clubs like Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Wednesday.

If we win against Chelsea on Sunday we will have a good chance of maintaining our top-flight status. If the crowd is up for it we can do them. They lost to Brentford the other week!

 

[gorgeousgeorgeEFC]

We signed a load of terrible players and offered them ridiculous sums of money. Nobody has come in to sign any of them.

So what happens if a team goes down offering some of their worst players 70-100 grand a week without anyone to offload them to? How many of them will take a pay cut to leave or stay on those wages?

The realist side of this should have any fan with a horrible feeling of dread. Because the club that goes down can't survive it.

Such a good point. People are saying there’s no reason why we couldn’t fair as well as Leeds did when they got relegated in 2003 (not they did particularly well!), but we are a special case. The biggest club and the biggest spenders ever to go down.

We would be stuck with mediocre guys on top dollar. Why would they leave to take a massive pay cut? Would any of us do that? We’d be stuck with a top 8 Prem wage liability with next to no income.

 

[GoldenToffee]

It'll be fresh refreshing to have more unknown referees and decisions no longer made for whichever team is biggest in the eyes of the TV cameras, at least. Can only benefit us, as we'd be out of the relegation zone and probably above Leeds too with correct VAR decisions.

 

[Blueclouds]

Sounds like we have accepted relegation

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

It'll be fresh refreshing to have more unknown referees and decisions no longer made for whichever team is biggest in the eyes of the TV cameras, at least. Can only benefit us, as we'd be out of the relegation zone and probably above Leeds too with correct VAR decisions.

You think?
Look at luton at the weekend.
It seems the powers don't want them up.
If we get relegated, we'll be seen as Billy big bollox and these power crazed refs will enjoy taking us down a peg or two.
But we ain't there just yet.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Such a good point. People are saying there’s no reason why we couldn’t fair as well as Leeds did when they got relegated in 2003 (not they did particularly well!), but we are a special case. The biggest club and the biggest spenders ever to go down.

We would be stuck with mediocre guys on top dollar. Why would they leave to take a massive pay cut? Would any of us do that? We’d be stuck with a top 8 Prem wage liability with next to no income.

Leeds had time to prepare to go down let's not forget. So they had moved some of their players on ahead of time whilst they fell apart financially. It meant they could go down with some young players already in the team and could raise money at the time through the remaining players with value.

We would be dropping directly with half the squad on these contracts.

 

[Mozza1987]

It's not ridiculous....we are going down

It is ridiculous as we aren't even down yet.

 

[Bluestar]

It is ridiculous as we aren't even down yet.

Its quite likely now though. Looming large.

 

[Littlesue]

The downside of a bigger club going down is you will be SKY'S Championship Darlings so look forward to having majority of Saturday 3 kick offs change to 8 on a Monday ?

 

[Blueclouds]

Cant believe we are down. Shocking state of affairs

 

[arbok]

I don't think people should underestimate the championship. People might sight Newcastle as a team that came straight back up, i think that is the exception rather than the norm.

The bottom half of the premier league is effectively the top half of the championship anyways, there's a constant rotation of the same teams that come through, they get boosted by the premier league payments and when they go down they have an advantage against the bottom half of the championship.

So if Everton can't even beat the teams in the bottom half of the prem, they are going to find similar competition, probably rougher, tougher competition, and they're going to land somewhere in the top half, which is far from an automatic qualification spot. Playoffs are a crapshoot and the in form team in May winning.

 

[maccavennie]

Get relegated and even if we do come back up at the 1st attempt, quality wise we will probably be miles off having a squad capable of holding their own in the PL which is what inevitably happens with promoted teams.

It really is imperative to stay up as that's the only we we'd get the kind of money we'll be wanting for certain players.

 

[MrGrumpy]

FYI

The EFL Championship starts on the weekend of 30th July 2022 and will pause for 5 weeks from 14th November till 10th December to accommodate the World Cup in Qatar. The final day of the season will be weekend 6th May with the play off finals scheduled for 27th-29th May.

Championship fixtures are released in June, 24 teams in the league with a total of 46 league games.

Finances are to be hit the hardest, currently Everton earn in excess of £100m for being in the PL, relegation would see this figure plummet to just c£40m falling to £35 in the next year and £15m in the 3rd year down, all these payments then cease after that. Imagine what these losses are likely to be without Premier League money? Whilst in the Premier League we posted losses of £170m over the last 2 years.

Reading FC were deducted 6 points this season for breaking profit and sustainability rules, Readings wage bill was £41m. Our wage bill is c£72m on a turnover likely to be reduced by £60m-£70m. No doubt we could be subject to punishment immediately as we implemented a fire sell of any saleable assets at the club, this might have to include players like Anthony Gordon if others are harder to move on, we know the ones.

The 1st round of the Carabao Cup (League Cup) will commence on 8th August, we will be in this. The final day of the season will be weekend 6th May with the play off finals scheduled for 27th-29th May.

For the FA Cup Championships clubs join at the second round stage.

3 teams are promoted, 2 automatically and 1 via a 4 team play off, 3 teams are relegated. Fulham and Marco Silva has been promoted to the Premier League and Bournemouth are the favourites to join them, play off places are likely to be filled by Huddersfield, Nottingham Forest, Luton Town and Sheffield United. Wayne Rooneys Derby have been relegated for fanancial issues whilst Peterbrough and Barnsley have dropped to League 1.

Potential Constitution:-

Everton
Watford
Norwich
Huddersfield *
Nottm Forest *
Luton *
Sheffield Utd *
Millwall
Middlesborough
Backburn
QPR
Coventry
Stoke
West Brom
Swansea
Preston
Blackpool
Bristol City
Hull
Cardiff
Birmingham
Reading
Wigan
Rotherham
MK Dons *
Sunderland *
Plymouth *
Wycombe *

*Play offs

Goodison Park will be the biggest stadium in the Championship, the next biggest will be Middlesboroughs Riverside Stadium which holds 33,746. Our very own dockside stadium Bramley Moore would be 20,000 bigger than the next biggest and would certainly be the newest.

On the plus side away tickets will not be so hard to come by, when relegated I fear we will never get back to the Premier League due to the financial state of the club. We think we`ve had it bad for 27 years, you haven`t seen anything yet.

Fantastic post