that forum is for amusement only and is populated mainly by whingers, dreamers, argumentetive wasters, people who cant spell or punktuate  and Bristol City Fans anyway I'm off to the Climate forum to check out the global warming thread

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They'll love it in the Championship once they've got over the shock.

From my perspective Leeds v West Ham is a proper game.

They'll piss it is what they'll do. One less place for us

You reckon?

It's already confirmed that their 'big' players will leave. The parachute money will fund those they can't offload.

I've heard of about ten teams that are going to walk the Championship next season. All of them won't because they physically can't.

I can't think of one single other team that has any chance of wlaking it next season. Not one, but WH will lose a few players, but maintain the nucleus of the squad. Don't forget it's not just parachute payments, they've been in the Prem for around 8 seasons or so, so will have cash to splash.

Newcastle last season would be my example. That's what I see WH doing. Obviously nothing is cut and dried in any league, least of all the Championship, but that's what I think will happen.

The rest is a lottery as usual. As I said at the start, I don't see anyone else running away with it. Tighter than a nuns chuff as it always is

Theyu can barely afford the water bill, let alone splashing the cash

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/the-truth-about-grant-good-managers-do-not-relegate-big-clubs-2284330.html

Today there will be 34 coaches, paid for by the club, travelling to Wigan, full of supporters who will not be able to influence the result. Anything other than victory will see West Ham, already laden with £80m of debt, go down.

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As early as 28 April, after their 3-0 defeatby Chelsea, Sullivan publicly rated their chances of survival at "between 25 and 30 per cent". He added: "This club is in a worse financial position than any other in the country", which seems an exaggeration when viewed from Plymouth, whose players have not been paid in months.

"All the club's debts are football-related and the bank debts are secured on the stadium and the training ground," he said. "There is no possibility of a way out through administration." Brady said that Gold and Sullivan had "dreams the size of whales" when they took over West Ham last year, acknowledging they were now tadpole-like.

http://westhamfc.blogspot.com/2011/05/west-ham-worst-debts-in-britain.html

"Should the worst happen, we will have to inject loans of £20m-£40m, depending on circumstances, which will probably never be repaid. I don't believe the supporters realise the potential real cost to us."

Newcastle's financial situation wasn't/isn't much different. Nowadays being in debt doesn't seem to count for much. In fact it almost seems to be fashionable.

You don't need to splash too much cash in this league if it's spent well. Obviously there are examples of clubs spending a lot of money and failing epicly. Cardiff spring to mind... Bristol City a bit too

I suppose a lot will depend on who is making the decisions next season. You would imagine a new manager will be forthcoming. Alan Curbishley? Wouldn't bet against it, and he knows how to get a team out of that division on a meagre budget, that's along with what is bound to still be a strong side.

I'll look forward to WH. Proper club, like yourselves, Derby, Wolves, Forest to name a few

Grant has been sacked. No surprise really

Parker has almost single handedly propped up Wet Spam this season and will go, as will Demba Ba.

I see little likelihood of the Hammers going straight back up. Still, they can look forward to two 'meet and greets' with Millwall next season, which will mean more to many of their fans than any other games.

I don't mind who goes up out of Reading and Swansea (assuming Reading do win)

Yep, two mistakes and two goals. Reading clinical and Long living up to his billing. He's playing in the wrong league anyway. His talents should be on view in EPL. Hopefully, they will. And hopefully with Reading.

It really gets on my tits that two Welsh teams are playing in an English league anyway. So hopefully, Reading will dispose of Cardiff tonight and then do Swansea.

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So, next season we have Wet Spam, Millwall, Cardiff, Leeds, Leicester, Boro and maybe Swansea.

As Danny Dyer would say: 'that looks pwopa nawty'.

I think Reading will take the win they have ended the season with more momentum and are on a high, will be close though as Swansea do have a very talented squad with good attacking players, I reckon Dave Jones will walk out on Cardiff and will become a mid/low championship team next season.

Promotion should be wide open IMO, something tells me West ham will bounce straight back up and Southampton may do another Norwich but who knows.

Relegation I think Barnsely and Doncaster look like good bets, Doncaster have appeared to be particularly poor recently.

As a hull supporter Im probably not going to be the most popular person here as we were boring to watch last season .

Last season though we started off as a mess because Phil Orange went and brought too many rubbish players, Nigel Pearson has spent his money well (even if he does seem to be buying all of Man Utds reserve team players). Got new owners at the club and our debts are clearing allowing us to have some money to spend. Anthony Gerrard was our player of the season for by a mile and our defense until the end of the season was amongst the best in the league.

Problem was our midfield was awful meaning the best way for hull to do well was by having overly defensive formations which is why our away form was much better than home.

The only time hull were good to watch was when we had a player called Cameron Stewart, very fast winger and gave something our midfield didnt have, pace. For a time hull were a good team to watch but hes had a lengthy injury. If we buy well in the transfer market this summer I think we could be contenders for promotion IMO, but the play offs are a more realistic bet.

Could see this coming, some decent players that could be snapped up there.

Always got the feeling Dave Jones was a rubbish manager, underachieving for several years and now paying the price for it by missing out on promotion yet again.