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Done my usual accy on the 4 league winners

Chelsea
Middlesbrough
Bradford
Oxford (sorry, guys)

£10 pays just under £35,000

Crikey, mega early for this kind of thing...

Manchester Utd
Middlesbrough
Sheffield Utd
Bristol Rovers

Chelsea
Bristol City
Wigan
Bristol Rovers

Ha ha rovers wont do shit.

Neither will City, top ten maybe, top three nope.

Agreed.

Chelsea
Hull
Sheff Utd
Orient

I predict:

1. Some Premier League team
2. Some Championship team
3. Some League One team
4. Some League Two team
5. Some Non-League team

Feeling confident about this...

Chelsea
Wolves
Barnsley
Notts County

Bournemouth.
Rotherham.
Fleetwood.
Oxford.

Stick an errant £5 on that and forget it. If it comes in you'll be able to retire.

My cock's a kipper!

if £10 buys £35,000 for Audrey, what would a tenner from you, Herthab, buy?

Still, I cannot wish any success for the Pox (and for that matter Brizzle) trolls on here

Shame on you :no:

Well, as my bets usually turn to shit I think we're OK re the yellow piss-stains

I'm with you on this one.

Arsenal
Middlesborough
Swindon Town
Portsmouth

My wishful thinking four...

Arsenal
Derby County
Swindon Town
Luton Town.

Call me a massive optimist, but I can see us making a return to the Prem in the next 10 years.

Stifles guffaw!

Nothing wrong with a bit of baseless optimism, if that's what keeps you going to games.....back in the dog days of 80's Div 4, I was convinced we'd reach the top flight....which we duly did.

Similarly I never thought we'd stay there, which we duly did....then we could get gates of a bit over 1500, so it really was the hardest of hardcore and STID stuff.

Well if Bmuff can... (yeah i know about the roubles equation)

The game has changed beyond recognition since the pre-Sky days.

Clubs such as ours cannot even dream of the PL without a very sugary daddy - if, indeed, that is what we all want.

This is a one of the reasons I feel optimistic, we have done very well the past couple of years with our small budget, making tweaks and improvements each season with a little more money to our name this time around.

I also like to think we instil a sense of passion and togetherness in our players and staff - Helped along even more by the passionate fans and Jay's impressive displays.

I feel like this raw passion of teamwork and support could trump finance and cash-flow.

Cheesy as Wookey Hole, I know. But what makes us fans without stuff like this?

Is that your stake this year on us getting promotion? 

I'm keeping schtum this year.

Much too close for comfort last season!

Heil Audrey

There seems to be a thread of you being right running through all this.  :hmmm:

'kin hell- Chewbacca has an STD :eek:

Please give your predictions Reg. We will all be able to retire.

Arsenal
Middlesborough
Wigan
L Orient

re
Are you Biff Tannen Reg?

No.... a bit difficult to explain, but from say 63-93, I'd seen what could potentially happen at STFC. Of course a bumpy ride, but some big crowds, some good sides, meant I knew what was possible, and always believed we'd make it to the top flight. 

Then, as Audrey says it was a much more level playing field....we had every chance to be say a Watford, who up til around that time were the side we'd played most often.  Now it's much more difficult....but good to see the likes of Eldene Red still believing.

As things stand we couldn't even compete in the Championship. The season before last when Bristol City were relegated, they had the smallest budget in the league - circa £20 million. 15 time our budget and they couldn't compete. It would take a massive stroke of luck to get into the Championship (for us) and a fucking miracle if we stayed there for longer than a season.

One would assume that the budget would go up proportionally should we reach the Championship - as we proved this year you can compete on a vastly smaller budget than the majority, however in the case of this year the higher budgets prevailed in the end.

Who knows, would at least be nice to try!