Would relegation be a disaster?

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Greennutmegsmoore

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Many will shoot me down here but I wonder if board see relegation as quite the calamity some fans do. They have always presented club as a long term community project and promotion came ahead of schedule. With it came raised expectations and pressure for short term signings ahead of infrastructure development.
Not of course saying relegation would not be had news and depressing but we won't be first team to discover staying in Championship is harder than getting there. Of course board will want to stay up but maybe not gamble silly money doing so.
 
Can’t see it being a disaster, we’ve got out of Lg1 multiple times before, but why we’d abjectly fall back into it is beyond me.

January is massive. We basically need to reconfigure whilst simultaneously improving the squad. A massive task in a few weeks & mid season. But the board have got themselves into this situation so they can get us out of it.

It would take us far longer to organically build the club as well. We need to avoid it but i don’t think it’d be a 30 year stretch down there like it was under Cartmell
And Oystons.
 
With a new and more lucrative TV deal just around the corner, our Championship status is financially huge. That and attendances, which also boost the local economy.

It’s a slog getting back up, so yes it would set us back considerably. We need to establish ourselves at this level and SS will know that. I don’t see him handing over large sums to MA in January, unless things turn around quickly.
 
To directly answer the o/p, YES it would be a disaster.

For us older posters, we went down (very unfortunately) in 1978, and it took us 30 years to get back up.

Nowadays there are a few so called bigger clubs in L1 trying to come up, so I just feel it would be very difficult to recover. It took the massive Sunderland a few years, and the even more massive Wednesday are still there.

As someone has already said, building a new East stand which would hardly ever be filled in L1 would be a very poor investment...... by a fund manager?!!
 
100 percent yes. We've been on a roll. We could just as easily roll back the other way. Nothing is permanent.
 
Thatseasider said:
Can’t see it being a disaster, we’ve got out of Lg1 multiple times before, but why we’d abjectly fall back into it is beyond me.

January is massive. We basically need to reconfigure whilst simultaneously improving the squad. A massive task in a few weeks & mid season. But the board have got themselves into this situation so they can get us out of it.

It would take us far longer to organically build the club as well. We need to avoid it but i don’t think it’d be a 30 year stretch down there like it was under Cartmell
And Oystons.
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"MULTIPLE TIMES " You mean twice . & at an average of 17 years to do so . So yes it would undoubtedly be a disaster.
 
XBeds-Now-Kings_Meaburn said:
"MULTIPLE TIMES " You mean twice . & at an average of 17 years to do so . So yes it would undoubtedly be a disaster.
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Last time I checked that was still multiple. 🤷‍♂️

It wouldn’t be a positive that’s for sure. A disaster under the current ownership, I’m not so sure.
 
Yeah, crowds will drop to 7-8k , tv income drops from 5 mil to 700'000, they'll be plenty of teams down there with bigger crowds/budgets so it's not like we'll be favorites for promotion. If we don't invest in Jan it'll feel like an admission from the board that league one is our level.
 
PdxTangerine said:
Yeah, crowds will drop to 7-8k , tv income drops from 5 mil to 700'000, they'll be plenty of teams down there with bigger crowds/budgets so it's not like we'll be favorites for promotion. If we don't invest in Jan it'll feel like an admission from the board that league one is our level.
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They'll drop lower than that.
 
Greennutmegsmoore said:
Many will shoot me down here but I wonder if board see relegation as quite the calamity some fans do. They have always presented club as a long term community project and promotion came ahead of schedule. With it came raised expectations and pressure for short term signings ahead of infrastructure development.
Not of course saying relegation would not be had news and depressing but we won't be first team to discover staying in Championship is harder than getting there. Of course board will want to stay up but maybe not gamble silly money doing so.
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How the hell does this even come into any genuine Blackpool supporter or officials mind ?
Relegation would be a complete disaster for anyone involved with the club .
If money is the problem then there is a hell of a lot less floating about in league one.
The mere fact that most people are panicking about relegation in November and December is down to the brand of football we've seen.
It's now time for the board to get there act together and shelf the long term plan till the short term problem is fixed.
 
Thatseasider said:
Can’t see it being a disaster, we’ve got out of Lg1 multiple times before, but why we’d abjectly fall back into it is beyond me.

January is massive. We basically need to reconfigure whilst simultaneously improving the squad. A massive task in a few weeks & mid season. But the board have got themselves into this situation so they can get us out of it.

It would take us far longer to organically build the club as well. We need to avoid it but i don’t think it’d be a 30 year stretch down there like it was under Cartmell
And Oystons.
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By multiple you mean of course twice in 50 years.
 
I 've been regularly arguing with fans that want more and more money invested in the squad to stay in this division. I still believe I am right in not expecting Simon to be a bottomless pit ,but religation would be a disaster . I just hope we can stay up with the return of our injured and maybe a couple of extra players.
 
WIZARD OF TANGERINE said:
I 've been regularly arguing with fans that want more and more money invested in the squad to stay in this division. I still believe I am right in not expecting Simon to be a bottomless pit ,but religation would be a disaster . I just hope we can stay up with the return of our injured and maybe a couple of extra players.
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Giving a manager a 4year contract is what a chairman with a bottomless pit does . The small amount of money that has been invested on the squad has been completely wasted .
His number one priority should be to stay in the championship , he will certainly be out of pocket next season if we are relegated.
 
In answer to your original question my opinion is YES it would be a disaster.

Take a look at the cases of two northern clubs who were in the Premier League but have since slowly sunk , more or less out of sight.

BRADFORD CITY: A well supported club, they had a guy in charge who spent money like it had no value, paid top whack wages for some Prima Donna players and yes after their disastrous fire and rebuild of the ground to what it is today, attained the promised land of Premiership Football for two seasons against all the odds. However, he was found out to be a similar character to a family we no well and sold the club to a company, from memory, based in Germany, who it was suggested were only their to line their pockets. Bradford have slid through the the leagues and are presently languishing in League two , where they have been for a number of seasons. I speak regularly to a number of their fans and they are basically at their wits end with the continued disappointing results and inability to climb out of the basement league.

OLDHAM ATHLETIC: A well documented, on this board, disaster of a club. One of the original formants of the Premier League, their story is not dissimilar to the one above, poor management, money not forthcoming, broken promises, gradual decline, and eventual y ending up in the basement league, before one final poor season put them where they are now, in non league football, holding the rest of the league up.

I'm sure there are other similar cases to the above throughout the league system, Scunthorpe, Southport, Chester, Wrexham, to name but four whose fans thought a relegation or two would only be a blip before they came back, but ended up being terminal for their clubs existence in the top four divisions of the league.
 
Absolutely. League 1 is too competitive, a pain to get out of, and the crowds will drop. We NEED to stay up. It’s crucial. I certainly cannot look forward to a season in League 1 next year. Port Vale at home - fantastic
 
TKL_Seasider said:
Relegation from the Championship is always a risk for a club of our stature.

It would be a setback and a disappointment but never a disaster. If it’s a disaster that’s a failure of risk management.
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Of course it would be a disaster and fcuk all to do with risk management 🙄
 
the o/p needs to think about his o/p and then realise it's a load of tosh. Sadler when taking over was talking about promotion within 3 seasons. So we achieved that ahead of schedule but it is now 3 seasons so if we went back down then that puts us behind schedule again. And no surprise who liked the post. That's some-one who is proud that he was one of the ones who was of the few who went in the lower divisions. As did plenty of others on here too. It's as if it's a badge of honour to him. He's more bothered about being in his comfort zone of watching lower league football than wanting what's best for the team.
 
John Deary me said:
Giving a manager a 4year contract is what a chairman with a bottomless pit does . The small amount of money that has been invested on the squad has been completely wasted .
His number one priority should be to stay in the championship , he will certainly be out of pocket next season if we are relegated.
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We agree on the relegation being a disaster ,but if we had some of our injured players available ,we would not be in this position . Its easy to spend someone else's money.
 
TKL_Seasider said:
suspect getting out of bed feels like a disaster to you. Certainly looking in the mirror must be.

Adults can control their emotions.
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Not at all, I love life and I certainly don't need to have a pop at people to make me feel better

Risk management ffs.....
 
Philbfctrois said:
Not at all, I love life and I certainly don't need to have a pop at people to make me feel better

Risk management ffs.....
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I love life so much I spend my days seeking attention on a football message board. Good to know.

As I’m in an indulgent mood, why don’t you explain what you don’t understand about risk management? Ask nicely and I might even explain the big words to you.
 
TKL_Seasider said:
I love life so much I spend my days seeking attention on a football message board. Good to know.

As I’m in an indulgent mood, why don’t you explain what you don’t understand about risk management? Ask nicely and I might even explain the big words to you.
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I think the only risk management you need to worry about is how you speak to people you don't know from behind an anonymous user name
 
Hockaday’s Quiff said:
By multiple you mean of course twice in 50 years.
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You can spin these things lots of ways really.

The new ownership has a 100% record of get out of League One for instance.

Look relegation would be completely shite, no arguments here. Especially after the stable base we had at the end of last season.

I think where I’m more optimistic than most in the event of relegation is, I think we’d get back up again in a Reasonable time frame.
 
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Depends on your definition of disaster.

I’ve supported Blackpool for 30 years with the vast majority of those years being in the third tier in front of 5/6 thousand.

It would be disappointing but not abnormal.

I’d say disaster would be dropping out of the league or going out of business. There’ll still be a football club that thousands of people go and watch every week in League One. Promotions and relegations are part of football, we should know that more than anyone.
 
It wouldn't be a disaster. Take out the loan players and one or two others and the squad looks like a league one set up. I presume the wage bill reflects that.
If we had spent a fortune on players and got relegated that would be a disaster.
Obviously it is possible to spend a lot of money on players and it goes well, maybe we do this in January and avoid a disappointment, maybe we do it in January and bring on a disaster!
Glad it's not my call and my money on the line!
 
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