I disagree, we could easily survive in league 2, there are always 3 or 4 total basket cases in that league .
Yes true, but this was some time after Twerton. The season they went down they really were too good (on paper) and I don’t think they’d been in the relegation zone all season. They beat Wycombe away the week before and fans celebrated on the pitch as all they had to do was draw to Mansfield at home and they’d be safe (Mansfield had nothing to play for). They lost and the away team had to borrow their kit .. relegated by a goal scored by a team wearing your kit. That’s almost SUFC style tragedy!
For me it totally depends on how we play, no one can deny that the first half and into the second half of the season, was a tough one. We looked predictable, slow, tactically inept some games, yet all that changed going into the last couple of months of the season.Interesting question.
For my view, providing we continue to improve each season I would stick with the management team as is.
We all have our moments, during and after games, football is a passionate game. But in the cold light of day, the squads we have have under the three amigos have been tight, balanced and have been committed to the shirt and the club.
That is often hard to maintain, especially over a period of time. I think the fact we have not seen an exodus of players after a successful season, that would have bought them to the attention of scouts is a visible statement of what has been achieved off the pitch under the most difficult of circumstances and the atmosphere here that they have helped create.
Also, I would like to see nothing more than promotion being achieved and Kev, Daz and Benno celebrating on the pitch post match, wherever it is achieved.
Having said that they are not immune from criticism, and I reserve the right to do so with team selections, tactics and performances etc, BUT at the end of the day, what they have achieved here deserves respect imho and the chance to finish the job and keep us moving forwards on the pitch.
No team has ever come straight back down after getting promoted to the EFL since automatic promotion from non-league began in 86/87.
You 're rather ignoring the point yjhat we're under new ownersip now.Which reminds me you seemed to be pretty close to the previous owner too.
Money makes the world go round. Some clubs have more money because they are successful and well supported, not always due to rich owners. Merchandising, sponsors, prize money and more can allow a club to splash the cash and try to improve itself further. Regulation could be stifling and prevent clubs attracting the best players, globally, and the standard of our game can suffer. A few great players in a side can raise the level of others in the team. It's a global market and regulation risks losing even more of our homegrown talent to clubs abroad. That has a knock on effect to the national team and if that is weakened it cannot inspire the next generations.
The bar is SOOOO low in L2. I think we'd have been fine
Oh do **** off. Hasn't your ****pot club got its own forum where you can irritate people?
Not the length, it’s the girth.. allegedly
