With Newcastle United, Middlesbrough and West Brom in the Championship this season, many feel that it will be a tough season but Chris Coleman feels that all seasons are tough in this division.
"If you look at the teams who were relegated and even the ones who have come up, it is not going to be easy," said Coleman to the CT.
"But I have been in football a long time and people say this year is going to be harder than the previous one. They are all hard.
"We play Newcastle twice, Middlesbrough twice and West Brom twice,. We are not up against Newcastle 46 times.
"They might have a different agenda to us but we only play them twice over two 90 minutes and anything can happen. If we can beat Newcastle we can beat anyone and that is the beauty of the Championship.
"Is it any harder this year? I could say yes and maybe save myself a little bit of hassle if we had a bad start but I am not going to do that. I think it was hard last year, will be hard this year and will be again next year."