Premier League yer 'aving a laugh

[harryhabin]

With the recent rise and promotion of Ipswich and Luton to the EPL, and however unrealistic it might seem, how many on here would like to see us in the Premier league one day?

For me I'd like to see our pinnacle as being consolidated and competitive in the Championship and remaining well run. I personally despise the EPL and all the hype and £££ that accompanies it and would rather go and watch non-league.

[Russ Greaves]

May 4, 2024 21:43:32 GMT harryhabin said:

With the recent rise and promotion of Ipswich and Luton to the EPL, and however unrealistic it might seem, how many on here would like to see us in the Premier league one day?

For me I'd like to see our pinnacle as being consolidated and competitive in the Championship and remaining well run. I personally despise the EPL and all the hype and £££ that accompanies it and would rather go and watch non-league.

I’m not sure there are many parallels between the two clubs mentioned - both of whom have already spent time in the top flight - and us.

If we were competitive in the Championship and well run, promotion to the Premier League would inevitably become the goal. It won’t come to it, but while I share your cynicism of the Premier League, I’d rather we landed up there than back in non-League football.

[whiteswan]

Would I like to see Cambridge United in the premier league?

Yes.

[camloyal]

Id like to see us in the top flight but I'd hope it's not the monster that it is at the moment. Not sure I'd fancy that much.

[imp566]

May 5, 2024 7:06:57 GMT camloyal said:

Id like to see us in the top flight but I'd hope it's not the monster that it is at the moment. Not sure I'd fancy that much.

Not sure its going to change the way you would want it too while the money abounds towards the big clubs.

[bushy]

Just one year in the Premiership would be good. Take the 150 million and run back to the championship, same as Luton and Ipswich.

[funkymonk]

Yes, I want to see my club play at the highest level.

I'm sure after year one, paying a small fortune to be gubbed by the elite, being messed around by TV companies, condescended by the media and all the rest of the top flight hubris that goes along with it, it wouldn't feel quite as novel.

But hopefully football will have eaten itself by the time we would ever make it up there.

[cufctheparrot]

My preferred league to see Cambridge play (in order);

Premier league
Championship
1st Division
2nd Division
National League
National League (South)

[Jerry1971]

Bournemouth are basically the same type of club as us. The only difference really is the level of investment from owners who took them into the Premier League a decade or so ago, (and have done very nicely out of Prenier League money ever since) but underneath it there is a similarly sized fan base in a City broadly similar in size. Bournemouth’s population is given at circa 195k, ours (including the bits of Cambridge which administratively are in South Cambs and not Cambridge City - Shelfords, Trumpington, Eddington, Orchard Park etc, is circa 181k. Surrounding counties give similar populations too. Our history as clubs isn’t very dissimilar up to the past twenty years either.

Ipswich is a town of a similar size too. Luton isn’t much bigger than Cambridge. What I’m trying to say is that if we continue to capitalise on the huge progress our owners, Board and CEO have made over recent years, there is absolutely no reason we couldn’t find ourselves in the PL in the not too distant future.

And yes, I wouldn’t mind a season or two in the PL - for all of its faults it is an incredibly watchable league from a quality perspective.

[Dylan]

PL would make life awkward for all of our 2CWs.

[camloyal]

May 5, 2024 9:47:30 GMT Dylan said:

PL would make life awkward for all of our 2CWs.

Yep. It would smoke them out for sure. Strange emotionally undeveloped bunch.

[Wingco's Boy]

May 4, 2024 21:43:32 GMT harryhabin said:

With the recent rise and promotion of Ipswich and Luton to the EPL, and however unrealistic it might seem, how many on here would like to see us in the Premier league one day?

For me I'd like to see our pinnacle as being consolidated and competitive in the Championship and remaining well run. I personally despise the EPL and all the hype and £££ that accompanies it and would rather go and watch non-league.

Let’s not compare our fabulous club to the likes of Luton and, especially, Ipswich. Luton have made a few visits to the top division over the decades, and have won the League Cup. Ipswich are probably the best “small town” club England has ever seen, having won the League, the FA Cup and a European trophy. Far from these two clubs’ success being recent, it could be said that both are back to where they belong.

[jc]

Have any of you seen the stuff going on with Brentford? Big problems with ticket touts and fans of big clubs/tourists getting tickets in home areas for their games against the big sides.

There were a few videos doing the rounds of a pretty large number of fans in the home end celebrating Man Us goal against them a few weeks back.

Can just imagine the same happening at the Abbey. Gross.

[hookycrooky]

We had a great chance to be in that level when we played Leicester in the play offs if only John Beck just listened to the players and we would have been like Wimbledon.

[btb]

May 5, 2024 10:46:48 GMT hookycrooky said:

We had a great chance to be in that level when we played Leicester in the play offs if only John Beck just listened to the players and we would have been like Wimbledon.

Wouldn’t have fancied travelling to MK to watch us though