Would you rather experience one top flight season or an FA Cup final with your club

[LordJord]

Plus if we win the cup we are in the europa league. If we win that we are in the champions league. Cutting out several seasons of leg work to get there via top 4.

 

[mnb089mnb]

Saw Cardiff City in the FA Cup Final. Was amazing. Wouldn't have swapped that for a season in "the Prem", or anything. (I stopped supporting them before they were promoted).

Start off in Round 3 and then you win round after round, it's exciting.

As for financial aspects, your club owners would just waste the Premier League money anyway.

 

[Richard Cranium]

How can you just stop supporting a team out of interest?

 

[daviejones]

If it's Cardiff you can.

 

[HertsWolf]

How can you just stop supporting a team out of interest?

Because there's different levels of support? Because you lose interest in the game? Lobotomy?
Agree, for most of us, probably difficult to understand someone not supporting your club anymore.
In the States, you come across people who say.... "Yeh, man. I root for Liverpool, Everton, Man-Yoo, York, Barnet and West Ham Hotspurs. I'm a die-hard. Hard core! Are you a rooter?" Their support will wax and wane, according to Barnet's successes, really.

 

[BigDaveCUFC]

How can you just stop supporting a team out of interest?

I've just done it myself when I completely disagreed with the club signing Meppen-Walter and stopped going while I had a season ticket then didn't for this season.

I expected it to be extremely tough but it really isn't. Once your back goes up at your own club to them levels you frankly don't care about the games anyway, don't really listen in and don't notice your missing the matches.

I just switched going to my Gym from 6pm on a sat to 4pm and hey presto my afternoon was filled. and this was as a season ticket holder since 1988.

i'd done the exact same if the Cardiff situation happened here, not with the actual shirt change, but the reasons for it.

 

[Grecian O'Grecian]

FA cup. Very easy for me.

The idea of away tickets costing £50/£60 isn't that appealing. Then you have to factor in travel, drinks, food etc. Spending £100+ regularly would probably cancel out the fun, for me anyway.

 

[AFCB_Mark]

Id take the cup final personally. I like being able to roll up at 2.30 and still get tickets for my mates if they decide to come to a game. I like knowing that I wont have to travel to games on monday nights/sundays reguarly. I like not having loads of foreigners (in a non racist way) taking up space with their bloody selfie sticks!

As much as it is tinpot, there is a difference with fans of teams outside the top flight, a positive difference IMO and I would rather that shot at lasting glory than one season likely ending in relegation.

Being in a somewhat bizarre situation with my club at the moment (and not quite knowing what lies ahead) - I can echo, or appreciate, a lot from this very good post.

 

[mowgli]

FA Cup for me, we lost in the semi-final to Liverpool. 2-1 in 2001 but i doubt we'll ever get there again.

 

[Meadow]

FA Cup, I might actually get a ticket this time.

I've seen my team in the Premier League, and I could barely afford to attend home matches, let alone the away ones.

 

[Roly]

I thought about this; and was inkling towards the FA Cup, but then the thought of beating Spuds at White Hart Lane happened. Which would be superb.

 

[Tom_CUFC]

FA Cup, absolutely no desire to see us in the Premier League, but love the cup, and would do almost anything for a European campaign.

 

[Reginald Fodstain]

Well, I saw us in the league cup final, so why not the fa cup to go with it

 

[BeesKnees]

Can't stand the premiership and we haven't been to Wembley in over 40 years. Easy choice

 

[Gashead]

Would your club return to its natural level after the season? Or are we hypothetically stating that you could then go into the Championship etc. etc. because if that's the case I'll choose the top flight season.

If not, cup final. Although, losing at Wembley is an experience I never want to go through.

 

[ComeOnIrene]

It's a good question, because there are obviously pros and cons to both.

Obviously participating in an FA Cup Final would be incredible and I know it's a competition that means a lot to many people, but I don't think I would choose it ahead of a year in the top flight because it is just 90 minutes of football at the end of the day. At least with a year in the Premier League it would be 38 league games, unrivalled media coverage and, of course, we would enter the cup competitions in the later rounds, perhaps giving us a shot at winning the FA Cup anyway?

 

[Don Tonberry]

If you ask me which I'd prefer to do having done both, the Cup Final wins every time for me. The top flight is over-rated and can be a miserable and expensive place to be. My best memories supporting Pompey come from the FA Cup.

 

[Judge Red]

We've done both - but then the program froze.

 

[pride_of_notts]

FA Cup for me as well I think it's more enjoyable especially the run to the final.

 

[Enzo Scifo's Right Foot]

I'm proud to say I've experienced one, so the FA Cup for me.

Neither will happen (again) in my lifetime

 

[JimJams]

Yep it would Theoretically be say a Burnley type top flight season or a Hull FA Cup final............easiest way to compare.

its just which you would love to experience being as such a fan that probably won't get either without massive changes.

So the options are basically lose an FA cup final or get relegated from the top flight?
Any of the teams mentioned in this thread would get drubbed over a full premier league season, but at least in an FA cup final you'd have a chance, anyone does. Also the calibre of opponent in the final would make a big difference. In the last 10 years Cardiff, Stoke, Hull, Wigan and Portsmouth have all contested finals. If they were your opponents you'd feel significantly more optimistic of your chances of winning the trophy than if you came up against Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City/Utd for example.
Is losing to the majority of Prem sides and celebrating the odd win here and there knowing it'll make no difference to the end result preferable to putting all your eggs in one basket and going for a win in a single match?

 

[shoddycollins]

If it was to win the FA Cup then I'd take that over a season in the top flight... well partly because we've already had a season at the top (even though it was before my time), we've never won a major trophy before. A FA Cup win would live long in the memory and we'd forever be known as that team that won the FA Cup. However I would take a season in the Premiership ahead of finishing as FA Cup runners up.

 

[northstandexile]

Just glad that the Bury lads are no longer on this site as they have moved up to League One.

They would be telling us that one win is nothing they have won the FACup twice.

 

[THE TERRACEMAN]

A season in the big time over another trip to Wembley, Wembley's shite anyway, its like going to a foreign country.
I'd just settle to finishing above the sheep to be honest !

 

[BeeArmy]

FA cup.

 

[shoddycollins]

I thought about this; and was inkling towards the FA Cup, but then the thought of beating Spuds at White Hart Lane happened. Which would be superb.

You could always beat Spurs in the 3rd round on your way towards the final.

 

[Roly]

You could always beat Spurs in the 3rd round on your way towards the final.

Yeah, but knowing Barnet we'd get dicked 3-0 in the 3rd by someone like Crewe.

Although if you could guarantee a Bees last minute winner at the drain in the 3rd I'd have the FA Cup over the league.

 

[shoddycollins]

Yeah, but knowing Barnet we'd get dicked 3-0 in the 3rd by someone like Crewe.

Although if you could guarantee a Bees last minute winner at the drain in the 3rd I'd have the FA Cup over the league.

It might please you to know that on the 24th of August 1974 we beat them 1-0 at Brunton Park to go top of the First Division.

We drew 1-1 with them at WHL that season. We did however beat Chelsea 2-0 at Stamford Bridge, and do the double over Everton and also beat Arsenal and Man City.

These things can (well 'could') actually happen.

 

[Judge Red]

Fa Cup? Premier League season? Pah!
West Auckland have won the World Cup - twice.

 

[Wombletom]

Done both already. The cup final was definitely more enjoyable.
Never watched Wimblefon FC in the premiershite. Watched us in the old division 1, was fun bloodying the noses of the big boys, though as I've said, the cup was so much more enjoyable. And our cup win gets rolled out every for everybody to witness year after year.