League One Ipswich

I have three friends who regularly go to see Ipswich, and they say they have great hopes for the young players coming through. Relegation has been coming for a few years.
 
Got a mate who's an Ipswich fan, he's absolutely livid to be playing the likes of Lincoln next year.
 
I expect Ipswich to be very competitive next year. They have a very productive junior set-up and I think have worked out where things have gone wrong (allowing too many experienced forwards move on at the same time). Despite having a Manager who isn’t as good as he thinks he is, expect them to do well.
 
Tbf, a lot of ours initially thought the same about the Conference in our 1st season.
They did and they were wrong. Over the course of a league season, clubs end up where they deserve, and if you are relegated then you belong in the division below. No matter what your history, how many supporters you have or however swanky the stadium you play in.
 
On the face of it 3 strong L1 teams coming down. Ipswich, Bolton, and any 1 from Rotherham/Wigan/Millwall :-(
 
On the face of it 3 strong L1 teams coming down. Ipswich, Bolton, and any 1 from Rotherham/Wigan/Millwall :-(
I don’t see Ipswich or Bolton being particularly strong if I’m honest. Bolton are a shambles off the pitch and Ipswich have been flirting with relegation for years. Think the third team to be relegated will be more of a force. Would love it to be Reading but think they’ll do enough to stay up.
 
I don’t see Ipswich or Bolton being particularly strong if I’m honest. Bolton are a shambles off the pitch and Ipswich have been flirting with relegation for years. Think the third team to be relegated will be more of a force. Would love it to be Reading but think they’ll do enough to stay up.

No whiff of financial problems at Ipswich as far as I am aware so the odds are they will have a strong side next season.
Bolton might not exist but if they do, can't see them being up to much, unless they manage to find a multi-millionaire owner who isn't called Davies.
Third team coming down will be Rotherham I think. They could well go straight back up again. Just a bit too good for Div 1, not quite good enough for the championship.
Lincoln could well be strong.
One or both of Sunderland and Pompey could still be in Div 1 next season.

Make no mistake....Div 1 is going to be strong next season.
 
Yeah, and danced on our pitch. Classless.

we're not totally blameless on that score though are we?

plus we sent them down from the old div 1 in 1986 by beating arsenal 3-0 at home in the last game of the season. they'd beaten us at their place a week or so before.
 
Bits of it will be strong, but IMO there have been a lot of very very ordinary teams in the division this year, and most of them will still be here next time out.

as there are every year - it's Div 3 after all. it's the half dozen or so that won't be very very ordinary that will be the problem.
 
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