Simple question really. The club is trying to achieve what most of us want this season, promotion to the Premier League ... but why do most of us actually want it ?
Living in Norway, a promotion would give me the chance to see Watford 25-30 times next season, instead of 6-7.
Nearly all games on that Al Jazeera Arab Sky TV station thingie - watch in the pub, beer in hand - hard earned drinking vouchers not going to Rupert Murduck, nor Watford Leisure Plc - just the brewer's profits ..... ideal!
We as fans do not benefit at all from going up only the club, would rather watch us draw every week than lose.
I'd hope that going up would give us a huge cash boost as a club which would give us a more secure future. In a sad world where the top tier are pulling further away from the rest of the clubs, it would be better to be in or around the top table feeders rather than cast adrift with the clubs who wil lbe lucky to survive the next decade.
Going up would give us more financial security, which in turn would, I hope, lead to better investment in the club on and off the field.
.......... Kick offs at silly o'clock anywhere between Friday evening and Monday night each week - ridiculous ticket prices at many away grounds - becoming a puppet to Sky and Setanta - watching second rate, highly paid, foreign players 'go through the motions' as they draw with the second rate, highly paid, foreign players of most the Prem, or lose to first rate, highly paid, foreign players of the top four .... etc etc
To be honest all those reasons i agree with, altho financial security for our club is most important. i dont wanna go thru 2002-2005 again...
TBH while the prospect of struggling week in week out is not inviting I cannot understand anyone not wanting promotion ... I am gob smacked by the lack of ambition whatever the rights and wrong of the Premier League circus !!
Apart from the taunting from the so called big clubs fans it has to be worth going to the Premiership for the money and exposure. If we could get into the top ten it would put us back on the map. However another year of struggle would be really cark we have done it twice now and it really starts to grate. The promised land or just another **** day in paradise ?
I have two views on this, and I have voted for my short-term view, Short-term: Financial Stability Long-term: Become a stable/successful Premiership club
I'd be happy if we could always win the championship but never get promoted. As that is not the way the league works (at the moment!) the only reason i want us to go up is for a bit of extra financial stability. In some ways promotion doesn't achieve this anyway because all the costs rise as a result
I'd love to see what the press' reaction to us would be. Hopefully we can either: prove some doubters and lazy journalists wrong who seem to think that we are completely incapable of playing football, despite probably never having watched our games; or, we continue playing even more combative, 'ugly' football and subsequently give all those who already hate us such high blood pressure when they see us play that they just have heart attacks.
if we go up not looking forward to the premership if we get there, but saying that the chance of promotion does make April a very interesting month as oppossed to being mid table with nothing to play for. but does mean i wont be able to get tickets to the home games if were plkaying big clubs when i come home from uni. but goods news is because iam going to leeds or nottingham uni i get the proper away games which were the most fun last time-newcastle, blackburn and then sunnderland if they stay up etc that aren't too far away from me
when we go up there is the possibility to watch at least some games live here and the highlights of almost every match can be seen even on free tv
because the point of sport is to win basically. promotion is the aim. Also theres more media, away games on TV, motd - not sure wether i'd rather have 30 secs on the championship, or have to listen to linekar though...
I want to go up for a different reason...to stick it up the press! The financial stability of the club is obviously important, and if we can build on it to become a decent Prem side milling around midtable each season i'll be happy. That's all from a footballing perspective. From a supporters perspective, we'll have to put up with all the Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs ***** that can't get tickets for their games...we'll have to put up with loads of Sunday games...we'll have to fork out more money for tickets...we won't be able to just turn up at away grounds and pay on the day and it's generally just s**t! From a footballing point of view I hope we go up...obviously! From a fans perspective, I'd love to stay in the Championship!
Exactly >>> I think there are some on here that would prefer Div1 because it's cheaper for tickets and the Vic wouldn't be full of horrible glory hunters.
i would love watford to be back in the premiership just like most people on here. It would keep the club financial stability good if we went up. But then part of me does not want us to be back in the premiership. My reason are. we might stuggle like we did last season because the big players what could keep a club like us in the premiership will just not come to a small club. plus like bubble said you will get all the glory fans comeing out again and getting a head in the que for tickets to big games.
