Maybe we are going to join the sweaties league?
Ah. I had a horrible feeling that might have happened after I posted.
ProfessorPeach,
If WFC ever made it to the cesspit of greed that is the Premier League I’d hope that we’d pocket the cash (& the parachute payments) & not invest in the team at all.
Sure, we’d get thrashed every weekend but it would make for a great dirty protest. Best league in the World, ha ha!..
The money alone would guarantee WFC’s existence for decades, if handled correctly.
That’s what Norwich do every time they come up from the Championship, spend no money on players and bank the TV money. Delia Smith and hubby must be rolling in it, the parachute payments are what’s getting them promoted, so it’s a win win for them.
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DanG_WFC
Bit of a difference between wanting us to be competitive in the fourth tier to not wanting to be a part of the top league and wanting us to be in the Premier League 
That’s the problem! None of our fans think we will ever have a squad capable of playing in the Premiership. If the fans only have mediocre ambitions then one can’t blame the club for sharing the same.
Belphegor,
You can shove it up your arse.I certainly feel no shame for thinking that way - more shame on you for suggesting it.
Unusually harsh from you Belph!
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You’re talking absolute rubbish. Just because I’m not fussed about us being in the Premier League long term doesn’t mean I have no ambition for Walsall FC to be successful on the pitch.
It’s the consequence of success i.e the Premier League and everything it stands for that I don’t care for. The journey that we would go on getting there is surely what we all dream of.
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Only in jest mate 
Success is relative isn’t it? What’s one man’s ambition is not necessarily another’s
Personally, I want my club going as far as we possibly can, if we eventually get to the Championship, would most of our fans want us to stop there? Not me, mate, I set the bar high and so should all football clubs imho.
I agree with you about the journey, but once you are there, wouldn’t you want the riches that come with that? It would secure our future for generations…none of us want that, right?
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League one is starting to look like a mini premier league now.
Ipswich and Portsmouth both finished mid table and Derby in a complete financial mess been added to the mix. All prem sides in last 20 years.
Sheff Weds remain at that level for at least another season aswell.
Sunderland just got out of it after 4 seasons so it’s going to be a much harder league to attempt to get in the top 6 than say in 2015 when you had the odd big team like Sheffield United but it was a much of a muchness.
Some cracking away trips though if the club can be bothered about trying to get promoted next year.
It’s not that we don’t think we will ever have a squad capable, it’s that for all of the ‘positives’ of being in the Premier League, there’s a lot more negatives for a lot of our fans who support Walsall for what it is, for the fact it ISN’T a Premier League club like Wolves, Villa etc. For me, I love the fact it’s quite a small ‘community’ of people, I love that I see the same people week in week out home and away.
And for what it’s worth, I don’t call hopefully pushing for promotion to the Championship one day ‘mediocre ambition’.
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I hear what you’re saying.
Would you want us reaching the Championship and possibly (likely) struggle for a year or so and get relegated? Or, would you like a really good team who can challenge for the play offs? If you surveyed fans on this forum, I believe most would choose the second option.
Given the way the football world works, the real choice is whether we want to have some rich person, probably from another country, take us over or stay as we are. Think Bournemouth.
I’d be happy with a league one/championship yo-yo (like The Bag Ladies do with the Prem) with some decent cup runs thrown in.
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I would want our ceiling to be the top half of the Championship. I despise everything the Premier League stands for and to be honest I’d probably find myself drifting away and watching local non league in the end.
I prefer the misery better now than having to pay 45 quid every time to watch us get spaffed by Brentford or whoever, who probably score 3 goals from dodgy handball penalties.
Now if some rich oil baron wants to have a crack at it then i might change my mind 
DanG_WFC
I would want our ceiling to be the top half of the Championship. I despise everything the Premier League stands for.
Even the standard of football?
A thrilling conclusion for the Premier League title yesterday.
Anfield and the Etihad were absolutely rocking.
You clearly like it, as you watch it. Some of us don’t. I haven’t watched a PL game on the telly for pushing 4 years now.
Thrilling conclusion - Billionaire club pips other billionaire club to win the league (again) - no ta.
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I completely understand, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
I agree, the top six clubs seem to have an endless supply of money, what they pay for a 20 goal a year striker would keep our club ticking over nicely for the next 10 years.
I freely admit I love the standard of football but dislike the huge sums of money involved in the top flight.
It used to be the clubs had the power, now it the players and agents making way too much money. The world has gone mad!
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Just looking at the villa season ticket prices.
anywhere in the centre blocks of the Holte end behind the goal will set you back a tasty £677. I’m not sure our fan base would pay that for the premiership.
This. And saddla’s comment seals it - football for football’s sake, not the fans.
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