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Win Fa Cup Or Stay In The Prem ??; Maybe not so obvious
Topic Started: Jan 10 2006, 07:57 AM (354 Views)
PartisanBCFC
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Jack Wiseman
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WIN THE CUP AND GO DOWN
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STAY UP ????

Having thought about it long and hard ...I'd go with a FA Cup win and be confident the club can come straight back up next year

We could keep ALL our top players as we would be in the UEFA Cup next season and we get the umbrella payments from Sky as well as some huge revenue from the Cup run itself..........

Then back to Wembley for a Play Off win although winning the title would be better

Thus we break our 'Trophy' hoodoo and make HISTORY being the FIRST club to win the FA Cup and be relegated in the same season

Comments ??..........hang on, let me get me tin hat
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jonno394
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Look at middlesborough; they were relegated in 97/98 season after two great cup runs; and they got into the uefa cup, and got promoted again the following season

However; i have no idea what their player situation waslike.

Anyway; premiership survival is the thing for me.
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StAndrews4Eva
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Gil Merrick
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This is a no-brainer for me.

Premiership survival all day long. Yes it would be great to win the FA cup but at what expense? We need to concentrate on the league games, we dont need extra injuries from a prolonged cup run.

Yes it may give the team some confidence but it that didnt seem to happen at the weekend did it? The players confidence would have been buzzing from the league win agaisnt Wigan, then we go and draw 0-0 with Torquay and the confidence level is back to zero for the next league game.

Premierhsip survival is the ultimate.
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TJDIXI
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Trevor Francis
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stay in the premiership always has and always will be. Anything else is simply a bonus.
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The Blue Bear
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Mikael Forssell
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This isn't even close.

There are no guarantees in football. Look how long it took us to come back after our departure from the top flight in 1986.

The FA cup, like the League cup, are side dishes, to be enjoyed alongside your main meal. You dont go to a restauraunt and order just side dishes do you.....

Premiership all the way..............
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dr.nick
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league without a dout.
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fatlad
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stay up, nothing else to say about the issue! **thumbup
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nrlawton
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Stuff the FA Cup, Staying in the Prem, NOT a hard question.
I'd rather we'd have lost on Saturday so we did'nt have to play them again, because it's another game that no one cares about when crucial players can get injured and we don't want that.
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Mattioso
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I'll take both.
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MGB 182
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Can't I have win our last match of the season to stay up, then the following week win the FA cup **thumbup
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Bookemdanno
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Alex Govan
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Every match in the league now is our FA Cup.

Survival all the way.
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Aff
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Frank Worthington
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Couldn't possibly choose. It's easy to say the Premiership this and the Premiership that but if you win the FA Cup, your name is there - in history. Staying in the Premiership guarantees another struggle the next season without the sweet taste of success of winning the greatest competition in history.

I'd take the FA Cup I think...
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sam jordan
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has to be to survive,

we can build from that point, if we get relegated, even with the FA cup, we would be in pieces, which could take 2 yrs to recover from, and sullivan might sell up, we don't need that mountain to climb all over again, and whilst in premiership we should be making last 16 or 8 of both cups every season, and a win would come soon.
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The Fa Cup would be like a final swansong for most of our team. Not the end of the world, and probably not a bad idea for some of them, but you would lose the better plays, the ones you wpould want to keep....and so the rebuilding would start again. We WOULD NOT come straight back up!
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harry
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I don't accept that it has to be either / or, but I would choose the FA Cup.

Winning the cup

History. The first Blues team in 131 years to win a major trophy. "Q: Who were the first team to win the FA Cup at the new Wembley ? A: Birmingham City". We were there. A memory that will stay with us, whether we are kids or oldies, for the rest of our lives. Literally, priceless.

(For the financially minded, also a European place & exposure to a worldwide fan base).

Staying up

Financial benefit. The opportunity to, er, try to stay up again next season. Maybe to "push on" to 12th place. Probably better than a promotion campaign in the fizzy pop, but hardly the stuff of dreams. We could just as easily go down next season anyway.

What are your golden memories as Blues fans ? The excitement (& agony) of the '75 cup run ? John Gayle's winner and the sounds of KRO echoing around Wembley ? Darren Carter's spot kick ? AJ's ? That 3-3 against Notts County to win promotion in the Jim Smith era ?

I've followed Blues through several relegation fights. I must have seen dozens of games during those seasons. Hard pressed to recall any of them now to tell the truth.

God knows, I want us to stay up, but if we are not dreaming of seeing KK climbs the stairs to the royal box in May then what is the point of any of it anyway ?
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steveb
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difficult decision but i would have the fa cup .we have never won a damn thing so to see us win it and at the new wembley would be awesome.
i can fully understand people wanting the reverse but who knows if we stayed up this year we could get relegated next season. win the cup and we have that honour for ever
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txblues
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If we do any of the 2 will people be blinded and want Steve Bruce to stay?
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got to be prem,
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Oby
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Mikael Forssell
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Well if we did win the FA Cup and relegated, the last time we will have seen any of our so called stars would be on that FA Cup day.

The very next day they would all be on there way back to a premiership club.

Loyalty e'h.
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Premiership blatatntly
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harry
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Macca05
Jan 10 2006, 04:43 PM
Premiership blatatntly

why ?
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harry
Jan 10 2006, 03:25 PM
I don't accept that it has to be either / or, but I would choose the FA Cup.

Winning the cup

History. The first Blues team in 131 years to win a major trophy. "Q: Who were the first team to win the FA Cup at the new Wembley ? A: Birmingham City". We were there. A memory that will stay with us, whether we are kids or oldies, for the rest of our lives. Literally, priceless.

(For the financially minded, also a European place & exposure to a worldwide fan base).

Staying up

Financial benefit. The opportunity to, er, try to stay up again next season. Maybe to "push on" to 12th place. Probably better than a promotion campaign in the fizzy pop, but hardly the stuff of dreams. We could just as easily go down next season anyway.

What are your golden memories as Blues fans ? The excitement (& agony) of the '75 cup run ? John Gayle's winner and the sounds of KRO echoing around Wembley ? Darren Carter's spot kick ? AJ's ? That 3-3 against Notts County to win promotion in the Jim Smith era ?

I've followed Blues through several relegation fights. I must have seen dozens of games during those seasons. Hard pressed to recall any of them now to tell the truth.

God knows, I want us to stay up, but if we are not dreaming of seeing KK climbs the stairs to the royal box in May then what is the point of any of it anyway ?


Well said Harry. Relegation and promotion come and go but SILVERWARE is what it's all about.

(only down side is we'd go down, but SB woulld keep his job...hmmm...)
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Blue16
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F.A CUP
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Please come back down to earth, i think the only trophy we could win is the league cup, and the FA Cup, no way. Personally i think we win struggle against Reading if they beat WBA, anyway who plays at home if we go thru, us or WBA/Reading?
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Shaneo
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I would rather survive any day of any week of any month of any year
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