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Double promotion

Sat Dec 13, 2025 6:23 pm

Not getting too ahead of myself I hope but if we do go up I think we can go up again.

I have watched many championship teams this season and the footy we are playing blows most away.

I said last season relegation would do us good long term.

Re: Double promotion

Sat Dec 13, 2025 6:47 pm

Let’s get one first ha ha

Re: Double promotion

Sat Dec 13, 2025 6:59 pm

Cmon now. It’s stuff like this that makes other teams fans call us deluded. We are league 1 for a reason. All these youngsters that are doing extremely well now, won’t be performing the same in the championship. We would need investment which I can’t see happening unless we are sold.

Re: Double promotion

Sat Dec 13, 2025 7:11 pm

MorgCCFC wrote:Cmon now. It’s stuff like this that makes other teams fans call us deluded. We are league 1 for a reason. All these youngsters that are doing extremely well now, won’t be performing the same in the championship. We would need investment which I can’t see happening unless we are sold.


Respect your opinion but disagree.

I’m not saying we are gonna walk the championship or owt.

Re: Double promotion

Sat Dec 13, 2025 7:16 pm

maccydee wrote:
MorgCCFC wrote:Cmon now. It’s stuff like this that makes other teams fans call us deluded. We are league 1 for a reason. All these youngsters that are doing extremely well now, won’t be performing the same in the championship. We would need investment which I can’t see happening unless we are sold.


Respect your opinion but disagree.

I’m not saying we are gonna walk the championship or owt.


I hope you’re right mate but I’m not as optimistic as a few on here :lol:

Re: Double promotion

Sat Dec 13, 2025 7:17 pm

We lose that game today if we were in the Championship. Three poor goals conceded. They could have scored more. There is a lot of talent in this team though. With some additions I think we can be solid in the Championship again.

Re: Double promotion

Sat Dec 13, 2025 7:18 pm

We are way short of a good team in the championship, we give the opposition loads of chances they would take them in the championship but I think 4-5 players with the way bbm plays and we would do well .

Re: Double promotion

Sat Dec 13, 2025 7:19 pm

Underhill1927 wrote:Let’s get one first ha ha


Agreed, we're in a great place but still need to get this promotion.

However, I do think our style of play is a style that would be very successful in the Championship.

Re: Double promotion

Sat Dec 13, 2025 7:51 pm

wez1927 wrote:We are way short of a good team in the championship, we give the opposition loads of chances they would take them in the championship but I think 4-5 players with the way bbm plays and we would do well .


At this moment maybe but these youngsters are improving so much and will continue to do so.

Both full backs and both wingers today will improve significantly with even more regular football.

I’d love to keep Kellyman next season.

Re: Double promotion

Sat Dec 13, 2025 7:51 pm

We've just won at home to 19th placed Doncaster in the 99th minute and you're talking about double promotion to the Premier League!

I said at the start of the season we're going to concede lots of goals. Doncaster scored 3 against us, how many goals will we concede against Championship teams?

We can't keep conceding soft goals and get away with it. Our luck will run out soon and we will start plummeting down the table if we don't tighten things up at the back.

We got away with one today and our defending is nowhere near good enough. If we still had Horvath in goal instead of Trott, who will surely be our player of the season already, we would be lucky to be mid table.

Re: Double promotion

Sat Dec 13, 2025 7:53 pm

Tonteg Bluebird wrote:We've just won at home to 19th placed Doncaster in the 99th minute and you're talking about double promotion to the Premier League!

I said at the start of the season we're going to concede lots of goals. Doncaster scored 3 against us, how many goals will we concede against Championship teams?

We can't keep conceding soft goals and get away with it. Our luck will run out soon and we will start plummeting down the table if we don't tighten things up at the back.

We got away with one today and our defending is nowhere near good enough. If we still had Horvath in goal instead of Trott, who will surely be our player of the season already, we would be lucky to be mid table.


We scored 4 pal. We are top of the league.

I’m on about improvement continuing and I think I’ve watched more championship teams this season than you have. It’s not a great standard.

Re: Double promotion

Sat Dec 13, 2025 9:56 pm

MorgCCFC wrote:Cmon now. It’s stuff like this that makes other teams fans call us deluded. We are league 1 for a reason. All these youngsters that are doing extremely well now, won’t be performing the same in the championship. We would need investment which I can’t see happening unless we are sold.

:thumbup: :clap:

Re: Double promotion

Sun Dec 14, 2025 12:59 pm

I had a few pints yesterday before the game, did you have a skinfull. Like the optimism but ....... :lol: :bluescarf:

Re: Double promotion

Sun Dec 14, 2025 1:04 pm

Bluebird1977 wrote:I had a few pints yesterday before the game, did you have a skinfull. Like the optimism but ....... :lol: :bluescarf:


Haven’t touched a drop since August.

I’m watching the championship regularly as I have a season ticket at Oxford. The football we are playing is similar to Coventry. I’m looking at Coventry’s team and they have good players but they were players who have improved at the club.

Look what we did to Wrexham.

The rotation man is keeping our players fresh and it means they can do stuff like 98th minute goals.

I’ll put my head above and get called out on it if I’m wrong but I genuinely think this team has a very high ceiling and improves year on year and will rise to the level they are at. This manager does that as well.

Re: Double promotion

Sun Dec 14, 2025 7:33 pm

At this moment, I think we'd struggle to be mid table, we can't turn over the ball as often as we do to championship forwards, but and its a massive but, these lads are improving week on week !!!

We still have over half the season to continue improving. The Callums are on the downgrade, Perry, Wintle, Willock, Osho and Turnbull are in their peak years, then the rest are pure potential, which we know is at least top of L1, so i can see Maccy's confidence.

Callum Chambers 30
Callum Robinson 30
Perry Ng 29
Ryan Wintle 28
Nathan Trott 27
Gabriel Osho 27
Chris Willock 27
David Turnbull 26
Joel Bagan 24
Isaak Davies 24
Yousef Salech 23
Ollie Tanner 23
Rubin Colwill 23
Matthew Turner 23
Will Fish 22
Alex Robertson 22
Eli King 22
Cian Ashford 21
Joel Colwill 21
Tanatswa Nyakuhwa 20
Dakarai Mafico 19
Dylan Lawlor 19
Ronan Kpakio 18

Re: Double promotion

Sun Dec 14, 2025 7:41 pm

llan bluebird wrote:At this moment, I think we'd struggle to be mid table, we can't turn over the ball as often as we do to championship forwards, but and its a massive but, these lads are improving week on week !!!

We still have over half the season to continue improving. The Callums are on the downgrade, Perry, Wintle, Willock, Osho and Turnbull are in their peak years, then the rest are pure potential, which we know is at least top of L1, so i can see Maccy's confidence.

Callum Chambers 30
Callum Robinson 30
Perry Ng 29
Ryan Wintle 28
Nathan Trott 27
Gabriel Osho 27
Chris Willock 27
David Turnbull 26
Joel Bagan 24
Isaak Davies 24
Yousef Salech 23
Ollie Tanner 23
Rubin Colwill 23
Matthew Turner 23
Will Fish 22
Alex Robertson 22
Eli King 22
Cian Ashford 21
Joel Colwill 21
Tanatswa Nyakuhwa 20
Dakarai Mafico 19
Dylan Lawlor 19
Ronan Kpakio 18


Great post with the ages.

I said we would batter Wrexham. I honestly think our football is more suited to the championship. Look at what Coventry are doing this year, Leeds last year. Granted Leeds have some really, really good players and I don’t expect us to get to 100 points like Leeds did. Ipswich built a team that went up two years on the trot. Pace is difficult to play against and we have that in abundance, both defensively and offensively. We transition so quickly and teams can’t cope with that in league one or the championship.

We are conceding too many for sure but our defenders will improve significantly.