Ipswich Town, a very short price to get promoted?

I mentioned this a few weeks ago. I wittily remarked that I must have missed them being taken over by an oil state. Unless they actually have.
 
TeaCider said:
Their owners are apparently prepared to invest a lot of money, and they had a free-scoring excellent season.
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I think the gap between league one on the championship is huge. Sunderland bucked the trend I know but in general teams that get promoted are in a relegation scrap the next season.
 
Redlips said:
I think the gap between league one on the championship is huge. Sunderland bucked the trend I know but in general teams that get promoted are in a relegation scrap the next season.
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I'd say that's true of the smaller yo-yo clubs but bigger teams tend to do ok
 
Redlips said:
I think the gap between league one on the championship is huge. Sunderland bucked the trend I know but in general teams that get promoted are in a relegation scrap the next season.
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In recent memory, Southampton achieved back to back promotions from League 1 to the Premier League. Bournemouth and Sheffield United both finished top 10 in their first season after promotion to the Championship, then got promoted to the PL a year later. The likes of Wolves, Sunderland and Leicester all challenged for or made the playoffs the season after promotion back to the Championship.

It's "smaller" teams like Barnsley, Wigan, Rotherham, Charlton, Bolton that have typically gone straight back down, with traditionally "bigger" clubs using promotion as a springboard to better things. Ipswich is in the latter category for me.

In any event, is 6/1 for promotion really that short? They are after all joint 9th favourites alongside Coventry, so it's not like the bookies have them down as a shoe in. No doubt some punters will see them as an attractive bet given their form in the second half of the season, being unbeaten in 18 league games and scoring 48 and conceding only 7 in that time!
 
I think the gap between the top of L1 and bottom of L1 is probably bigger than top of L1 and the Championship. They should do well if they spend well.
 
I expect them to do similar as Sunderland did last season. They were top 3 all season in Division 1 and averaged 26.2k crowds. They may not finish top 6 because the standard will be higher, but they will be top half.

Blackburn could drop a bit as they are cutting back at the same time as the standard is rising.

I also thought Millwall over-achieved a bit last season, Coventry came on well at the end, but they may not be as fortunate with timing their best form next season, same with Sunderland.

Of course we will have to see what players teams hang on to and what they pick up.
 
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Think they will do fairly well to be honest. Then again they have cart horse Morsy who can’t play at this level. So that should set them back a bit
 
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