Originally Posted by
almostsignedmaradona
You sometime see comments on Owlstalk with their fans saying
"The PL is corrupt, it's not real football so we wouldn't want to go there and I'm so pleased we're playing in the EFL where it's real football".
This is such a cliche and so easy to say when you can't get in it.
So I'll give you a list of what to expect if Rotherham United reached the Premier League
1: There's a buzz around the city and it receives so much regular publicity in the national media. You team might even become semi fashionable with millions around the world having RU as their second team, imagine that.
2: Players don't necessarily seem better but they do seem bigger, more muscle bound with everyone looking like a top athlete.
3: The standard of finishing goes up through the pyramid, so in the PL strikers can score from nothing.
4: Your club become rich overnight and have about 60 million a season to spend on players. This means you can basically cherry pick all the best Championship players and you know that financially other Championship can't even try to compete for transfers.
5: The clubs official Youtube and Twitter followers seems to double overnight, SUFC now have 165K Youtube subscribers.
6: Your team seem to be in the media all the time, always mentioned on national radio, national tv, it's a real novelty.
7: You need to do internal changes to the stadium so they can cope with mass influx of journalists and other clubs entourages etc
On match day there are far more vans at the stadium, triple the number of media men, every match feels like a massive game.
8: You need to put a cap on season tickets otherwise you could fill the ground just with season tickets holders, so there's no general sale.
9: The away end seems to be sold out almost every single match.
10: Your baseline of what you thought was football changes. For example in the PL every team seem to focus on keeping possession with no teams playing percentage crossing or punts up field. Also in the Championship you think of 30K as a big crowd, however in the PL it's a modest crowd, your definition of a big crowds changes to being 50K or 60K.
11: VAR is a game changer, it's great that it generally stops your team from being robbed but it's a real passion killer when 20 seconds after scoring it comes up on the scoreboard "VAR check in progress".
For most people it's very enjoyable being in the PL, it's the greatest show in town.
However it's not your traditional football so there's also a tinge of sadness attached to it. Suppose it's what you call "progress".
Yes we are ready to return, the good news for us this time is we have 3 players (Berge, Ahmedhodzic and N'Diaye) who are better than any of the players Wilder had in the PL, so we already have 3 players currently at PL standard, with room to improve further.
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