The cup was clearly not a priority and that’s fair enough.

[billybassett]

Yet another decent chance at a cup run ignored and  laughed at. Disappointed. I suppose we'll all be happy next year when we're in the Prem, struggling to compete and staring at another relegation.

What is the point in modern football when you don't aim to win trophies?

+1

What's makes me laugh is that when we were in the Prem the same people said our priority was to stay in the Prem so no.point going on a cup run. Now we're in the championship we don't want a cup run because we want to get into the Prem.

So what they really mean is when we are bought by a.trilllionaire and we've spent a billion on the squad the .we can go on a cup run unless we're fighting for a.champions league place and then we best not

FFS the extension of all this is that we can only goon a cup run when we are in the 5th tier and really shit 

Some.of these fans need to take a hard look in the mirror

When did we look like winning anything pre-Megson and the money of the Prem? One decent cup run in the late 80s? Frustrating as it is football isn’t a level playing field and we need the money the Prem offers us to carry on competing and moving forward. That’s just the way it is because our owner isn’t going to throw millions at us like Fosun for example.

Err we got to a semi final under Mowbray..

You do realise that virtually every other big club bar Derby, and I mean 40 or so clubs in the league, have been to a major final since we have in 1968. Wigan, Palace, Stoke, Cardiff, Villa, Hull, Southampton, Portsmouth, Sunderland, Swansea, Bradford have all been to finals in the last 10 years and that's what I can remember.

So while it's something to do with the playing field it's not all to do with it. It's about ambition, good management, a bit of luck and the belief.

I'd trade any cup final right now for many years 16th in the Prem

That is post Megson and you’ve just proven the point we got there in part due to our time in the Prem allowing us to buy better players than we had done for nearly twenty years.

I think I've been to 8 semi finals since 1975. We've lost them all. 2 were in 1982. Not sure what point you're making but one thing I do know is that if you fail to play your best team in those cup games you reduce your chance of winning. I bet in the last 10 years we've played our best team a handful of times and under your Messiah Pulis .. never