Peaty FC Posted April 9, 2023 Report Share Posted April 9, 2023 30 minutes ago, JeanieD said: Whilst it would be a feather in our cap I’m not convinced promotion at this time would necessarily be in the best interest of the club. Would be delighted if it happened but it would be tempered by a certain anxiety for next season. I'm always tempered by a certain anxiety whatever season JeanieD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garscube Road End 2 Posted April 9, 2023 Report Share Posted April 9, 2023 (edited) 44 minutes ago, JeanieD said: Whilst it would be a feather in our cap I’m not convinced promotion at this time would necessarily be in the best interest of the club. Would be delighted if it happened but it would be tempered by a certain anxiety for next season. Financially it would be beneficial. And the lure of Champions League football and cash the following season would be pretty good. And I'd rather fight relegation in the Premiership to the Championship giving our anticipated financial difficulties. Edited April 9, 2023 by Garscube Road End 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandy Posted April 9, 2023 Report Share Posted April 9, 2023 2 hours ago, JeanieD said: Whilst it would be a feather in our cap I’m not convinced promotion at this time would necessarily be in the best interest of the club. Would be delighted if it happened but it would be tempered by a certain anxiety for next season. I think you are right. We don’t have the finances to meaningfully challenge in the top flight just now. Maybe this season we mark time in the Championship and look to go up after that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted April 9, 2023 Report Share Posted April 9, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Garscube Road End 2 said: And I'd rather fight relegation in the Premiership to the Championship giving our anticipated financial difficulties. Agree. For operational reasons the Club may not wish to be too open re our finances, but as long as the fans appreciate the situation, up and straight down shouldn't necessarily be a morale buster. Edited April 9, 2023 by lady-isobel-barnett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Jag Posted April 9, 2023 Report Share Posted April 9, 2023 If we won promotion this season great. If we stay in the championship our finances could mean we don't have as competitive a team as we would hope for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted April 9, 2023 Report Share Posted April 9, 2023 44 minutes ago, sandy said: I think you are right. We don’t have the finances to meaningfully challenge in the top flight just now. Maybe this season we mark time in the Championship and look to go up after that? Promotion this season would give us a better chance to be competitive the year after next. With our finances supposedly in a poor state we are unlikely to have a better chance for some time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garscube Road End 2 Posted April 9, 2023 Report Share Posted April 9, 2023 1 hour ago, sandy said: I think you are right. We don’t have the finances to meaningfully challenge in the top flight just now. Maybe this season we mark time in the Championship and look to go up after that? Next season, with either Dundee Utd, Kilmarnock or Ross County coming down and with Dunfermline coming up, next season's league is going to be really tough. I think we would struggle to make top 4, never mind coming up. I believe this is the season we are best placed to go up. Otherwise I think we will languish in the Championship for years and our financial ability lessens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady-isobel-barnett Posted April 9, 2023 Report Share Posted April 9, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Garscube Road End 2 said: Next season, with either Dundee Utd, Kilmarnock or Ross County coming down and with Dunfermline coming up, next season's league is going to be really tough. I think we would struggle to make top 4, never mind coming up. I believe this is the season we are best placed to go up. Otherwise I think we will languish in the Championship for years and our financial ability lessens. I suppose if we had Killie, Dundee Utd, Pars & Falkirk all in the same division we'd at least have more dosh thru the turnstiles. But I share your concern it would probably be quite an expense to put a top 4 team together. Edited April 9, 2023 by lady-isobel-barnett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted April 9, 2023 Report Share Posted April 9, 2023 In theory we could get promoted with Ayr and that would offer a decent chance of survival. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garscube Road End 2 Posted April 9, 2023 Report Share Posted April 9, 2023 13 minutes ago, Dick Dastardly said: In theory we could get promoted with Ayr and that would offer a decent chance of survival. Would probably be playoffs next season then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laukat Posted April 9, 2023 Report Share Posted April 9, 2023 I've never really understood the idea that there isn't a right time/season to be promoted. If somehow we manage to make it up this year we will have a season in a league with extra income. Even if we come straight back down that has to be a better financial state of affairs than another season in the Championship. As others have mentioned next season's championship could be a far more difficult league and one were our budget is likely to be at best middle of the pack and perhaps doing well to avoid the relegation playoff. If we can avoid a season in that environment by being a league above that's got to be a good thing as well. From what I can since 2012/13 only 1 team has been promoted and then relegated the following season (Dundee). Whilst the standard of the championship this year is not great it still suggests that gap to the premiership is not as big as we would fear. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fawlty Towers Posted April 9, 2023 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2023 8 minutes ago, laukat said: I've never really understood the idea that there isn't a right time/season to be promoted. If somehow we manage to make it up this year we will have a season in a league with extra income. Even if we come straight back down that has to be a better financial state of affairs than another season in the Championship. As others have mentioned next season's championship could be a far more difficult league and one were our budget is likely to be at best middle of the pack and perhaps doing well to avoid the relegation playoff. If we can avoid a season in that environment by being a league above that's got to be a good thing as well. From what I can since 2012/13 only 1 team has been promoted and then relegated the following season (Dundee). Whilst the standard of the championship this year is not great it still suggests that gap to the premiership is not as big as we would fear. Having watched Dundee United play Hibs today I can assure you that it is not. Also with Hearts now looking for a manager we better make sure Doolan's contract has a large compensation clause! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cfirejkl Posted April 9, 2023 Report Share Posted April 9, 2023 I think the right time to get propmoted is right now. Who knows what is around the corner. Much as I can't see us being over-competitive in the Premiership I can't really see any Championship team this year being anything but the bottom 3-4 next season. I am in it to win it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAG1970 Posted April 9, 2023 Report Share Posted April 9, 2023 The notion of “better to get promoted next season instead” is nonsense. You don’t get to pick and chose some kind of optimal timing due to numerous variables. If the opportunity is there you must go for it - and that’s exactly what the manager and players are doing.. going for it! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanieD Posted April 10, 2023 Report Share Posted April 10, 2023 My initial thoughts were perhaps not best expressed and some of the responses were better rationalised. Whilst the rewards associated with promotion are - for a club of our size - enticing, my trepidation is based on the outlay that the club would have to make in order to have a reasonable chance of staying up and the probability that the outlay (assuming it can be funded in the first place) might have to outstrip the rewards and the subsequent financial meltdown that could arise if relegation follows. Perhaps I am being overly cautious as regards finance but then again perhaps I am being overly optimistic as regards our promotion prospects? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Jag Posted April 10, 2023 Report Share Posted April 10, 2023 Also in the premier league you have to contend with 2 lots of officials getting it wrong. The on field ones and the VAR ones. I agree with everybody who says if we are in with a chance of promotion we go for it. Look at Livingstone and St. Mirren how well they have done, we should be able to compete with teams like them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wull Posted April 10, 2023 Report Share Posted April 10, 2023 I really don't see why we won't win all remaining games, look at this weekends fixtures and we could easily be top on Saturday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandy Posted April 10, 2023 Report Share Posted April 10, 2023 38 minutes ago, Big Wull said: I really don't see why we won't win all remaining games, look at this weekends fixtures and we could easily be top on Saturday If you do the half-time talk with Dools Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted April 10, 2023 Report Share Posted April 10, 2023 52 minutes ago, Big Wull said: I really don't see why we won't win all remaining games, look at this weekends fixtures and we could easily be top on Saturday You forget. We are Partick Thistle and frequently fail to do what is expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenziejag Posted April 10, 2023 Report Share Posted April 10, 2023 1 hour ago, Big Wull said: I really don't see why we won't win all remaining games, look at this weekends fixtures and we could easily be top on Saturday There are 3 games tomorrow, which I think will see Dundee 6 points ahead of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laukat Posted April 10, 2023 Report Share Posted April 10, 2023 20 minutes ago, Lenziejag said: There are 3 games tomorrow, which I think will see Dundee 6 points ahead of us. Agree. Particularly as Raith have a lot of injuries and are struggling to field a team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted April 10, 2023 Report Share Posted April 10, 2023 57 minutes ago, Lenziejag said: There are 3 games tomorrow, which I think will see Dundee 6 points ahead of us. Or it could see them back behind Queens in second place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dl1971 Posted April 10, 2023 Report Share Posted April 10, 2023 The odds are in favour of Dundee winning this game, but given the unpredictable nature of this league I'm hoping raith might come up with a result. If they do it really does set up a helluva finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenziejag Posted April 10, 2023 Report Share Posted April 10, 2023 1 hour ago, Dick Dastardly said: Or it could see them back behind Queens in second place Stranger things have happened, but if that happened, I think there would be calls for a match fixing investigation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dl1971 Posted April 10, 2023 Report Share Posted April 10, 2023 49 minutes ago, Lenziejag said: Stranger things have happened, but if that happened, I think there would be calls for a match fixing investigation. I doubt it. Results have been close between the two teams and raith beat them in the challenge Cup a few months back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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