Newcastle will stay up next season.
Posted on May 29th, 2010 | 63 Comments |
Votes have been cast in our poll which asked how YOU thought we would get on in the big league next season. The options were varied, with the most optimistic option perhaps being a Champions League qualification place, right through to the other end of the spectrum with the worst scenario being relegation.
I can tell you now, it has been the most popular poll in NUFCblog.org history, with 2,215 votes cast. And I can reveal that an impressive 92% of people who chose to vote believe we will be able to avoid the dreaded drop back into The Championship. Of course it is just a poll on the internet, but it does give a pretty good snapshot with regard to the general feeling of people who visit this site.
A vote for Champions League qualification managed to secure just 3% of the vote, whilst Europa League qualification is also deemed a long shot, rolling in with slghtly more votes, but still a rather low 5% of the vote. Both of those are pie in the sky options that have no real chance of happening though, even with my glass half full thinking!
Next is the nitty gritty, the real options in my view, the options that can be realistically achieved. A staggering 49% of votes cast place us confortable in mid-table, whilst another 35% have the opinion that we will just scrape through and avoid relegation, incidentally this is where I cast my vote.
Then we head onto the unthinkable, relegation. That catastrophic option managed to secure 8% of the vote total, and I sincerely hope that they are wrong, obviously.
At the end of the day though, it’s all about opinions I guess, and everyone has a right to their own. It’s nice to see a broader snapshot as to how people think though. At the end of the day, you can’t always get an accurate gauge of opinion by just reading the comments people leave whereas you can with a good old-fashioned poll.
Wanting to just survive isn’t being unambitious in my view, neither is the signing, or lack, of players who are already deemed not good enough because they don’t cost enough. It’s not about lacking ambition, or being pro-Ashley or anything like that.
It’s a realistic ambition when considering the restraints we are forced to work under at the moment. That is not to say investment wont go amiss, or that it wont happen before the start of the new season. Nobody knows that, nobody.
All we can do is wait and see I guess. And I, for one, am certatanly not writing my team off just yet.
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Europa league here we come ;)