The Now-Irrelevant 2024/25 Relegation Battle (Without Everton!)

Toffeeslam said:
Can we still call this a battle ?

Done and dusted now surely
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Considering Wolves were only on 3 points going into November for them to be on 29 points now with still 3-4 winnable games left at least is pretty good from them. I actually thought they'd left the managerial chance too late but they still did it before the xmas games and that is always critical rather than just wasting them and then making the change in January/Feb with Lampard/Dyche.

Yes helped by how rubbish the promoted teams have been again but next season it only takes one to come up and be solid and shows you can't just assume an established prem team will just stay rubbish all season.

Wolves would probably be on 34-35 points already if they'd sacked O'Neil a month earlier aswell.

Things would be far from over if they were the 18th placed team but thankfully they're 17th instead.
 


Looking forward to when I can hope the promoted sides becomes competitive in the PL again apart from Leeds. Been lucky they have been generally turd when we have struggled the most in recent seasons
 
Vintage said:
Looking forward to when I can hope the promoted sides becomes competitive in the PL again apart from Leeds. Been lucky they have been generally turd when we have struggled the most in recent seasons
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They have, which obviously has helped us, but as you've alluded to it speaks to what a shambolic state the game is in. The gap is becoming a chasm.
 
I can see a move towards a promotion/relegation playoff in future if the promoted sides continue to struggle to the degree they have recently.

That wouldn't improve their prospects of itself of course but I do think there will be a momentum to change the current arrangement in time.

That alone would have caused real fear in me if it came to pass but hopefully that chapter has now been turned.
 
lieneverton said:
They have, which obviously has helped us, but as you've alluded to it speaks to what a shambolic state the game is in. The gap is becoming a chasm.
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It's only been 2 years of it to be fair, I think people are going way over the top talking about it as if it's some seismic shift that can't ever be turned back around. I was saying a few weeks ago, it's not even necessarily that it's a chasm, it's that some of these clubs are coming up with a weaker squad than they had in the Championship because they're losing players in the summer. N'Diaye was Sheffield United's best player by an absolute mile and almost single handedly responsible for them getting promoted and he left, Burnley lost Tella and Harwood Bellis, Leicester lost Maresca and Dewsbury Hall etc etc. If the same happens next year you'd start to worry but Villa and Newcastle have both qualified for the CL since coming back up and Forest look likely to do the same. That's 3 times who've been in the Championship within the last 8 years, plus Brentford, Bournemouth and Brighton all being well established and pushing the European places now in the same timeframe.
 


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