by WestYorksRoyal »
17 Apr 2024 18:10
Snowflake Royal SCIAG WestYorksRoyal Each to their own I guess. I'd happily take being a Brentford, Fulham or Palace, let alone a Brighton. Just as long as I continued to appreciate it. Some younger Palace fans want Parish and fellow owners out; the same owners who bought them out from administration, avoided relegation to L1 and then delivered a decade in the top flight. If Reading fans ever become disillusioned with that, just fold the club and let them go to Chelsea.
Agree.
I want us to compete at the highest level we can. Maybe we’d go into each season knowing we only had a 1 in 300 chance of winning the league, but we’d have a better standard of player and opponent, and even if we finished last we’d still be “above” every Championship team.
Seeing us lose 4-0 to Henry’s Arsenal was a completely different experience to any other heavy defeat I can remember.
Seeing us beat Liverpool 3-1 sticks with me much more than the typical mid-season 3-1 win.
Or how people still talk about Daniel Carrico on the basis of a 20 minute sub appearance against Liverpool but I’ve probably already forgotten some people who played for us this season.
I think the thing with this is though, fans very much don't appreciate it for the most part.
And Brentford, Fulham, Palace and Brighton are just at the top of their arcs.
Not long ago you could have said the same thing for Bolton, Wigan, Blackburn...
I'd certainly rather beat Wycombe and Lincoln than know bar a miracle we're losing to Arsenal yet again.
I think the moments are just more memorable in the Premier League seasons. Even in the years we went down, we had some of our best moments. Beating Liverpool in 2007, the comeback win at home to Everton in 2012 when they were still good. January 2013 where Le Fondre was player of the month and McDermott manager of the month. A few years ago, Norwich finished bottom but still had their big day beating Man City.
The only days outside the PL which compare are the away days at Brentford (2002), West Ham and Southampton (2012), the FA Cup win against Bradford (2015) and winning promotion for the first time in 2006. The day we finally win a play-off, at whatever level, will be right up there.
Even in a bad PL season, you will get 2 or 3 memorable days which only come along once every few years outside it.
Just my view.