Another season in League 2

[* ORM *]

No sympathy for Stockport thugs. They also have a track record.

The division is poor. We failed to make the play offs. Therefore we are poor. It's as simple as that.

Come August all the excitement starts all over again. New manager, new players, new style, new optimism. Football following SUFC is ever thus. Still nowhere near the bleak days

 

[OldBlueLady]

bloody portsmouth should get there -10 next seasn its not fair on all league 2 clubs but oh well neil harris is bck next season and him and corr / akinfenwa will fire us to promotion!! BELEIVE

Akinfenwa? :unsure:

The thing that annoys me most is the fact that 83 points this year would be enough for 2nd. Possibly the title if Gillingham fail to get a point in their last game

Yes, very frustrating.

 

[Lester Bangs]

Its frustrating but as the thread earlier in the week stated 'we have no divine right to promotion'. At least we've been competing over the last few seasons. I remember when whole seasons were spent meandering around the 17th spot mark.

I think PB will have quite the rebuilding job to do before the start of next season with the rumours of players leaving.

 

[Beefy]

but I think that without Sturrock it's far more likely we'd be in League One now than the BlueSquare South.

I respectfully disagree.

EDIT - oh BS South? Ok yeah you're right. I should read posts more quickly before responding :smile:

 

[mrsblue]

What Sturrock did, in the face of continuing financial problems was exceptional. He was very unlucky indeed not to get us up last season, and I despair at the facile way his efforts are so easily dismissed. I sincerely hope to be proved wrong, but I suspect we are in for a long stay in League two - to build a squad capable of, and manage that squad to, promotion is a bloody sight harder than you would imagine from listening to the armchair experts, and managers of the ability and knowledge of Luggy are much in demand and rarely appointed at our level.

Top post .

Luggy was unlucky but still did an amazing job.

 

[Thorpe Groyney]

Why do we all support a team who's fans go to Orient and rip up seats?

Which is why you'll see a distinct lack of moping of wailing from me about Southend staying in the 4th Division. Sometimes people get what they deserve. Whether it be Southend, Stockport or Millwall.

 

[WESTY_SUFC]

Has Stockport appoint Sturrock instead of us in summer 2010, they would be in top half of league 2 and pushing for play off and we could be on a slippery slope into conference and struggle down there. The reality that Braintree is a league above Stockport and Stockport is almost same size as us.

Stockports wage bill for the season they went down was almost a 3rd of ours. Ours was top 3 in the division

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

League 2 - 'division four' is where we have spent most of our existence - get used to it.

Factually not true. Our existence was exclusively third tier until 1966.
And for 47 years we've been going back and for between three and four excepting the heady 90s.
We belong nowhere.
We belong where the current board, management and team unwittingly put us.
I agree that if we were Stockport fans it could be worse. Their supporters' thread blames everyone and global warming for a demise brought by their own bunch of Ron Martins.
The pluses are we're better off than most in League Two, although for what's its worth I want Barnet and Wimbledon to survive because it's two more away games I'll see.
I can get the pies and curry at the caff down the road.

 

[Bolton Shrimper]

Spare a thought for the Stockport fans, I'm sure they'd treat being in league 2 like winning the lottery right now. Massive fall through the leagues for them and the fans must be absolutely devastated.

Naaaaaaaa........F**k Em !!!!!!!

 

[Bolton Shrimper]

No sympathy for Stockport thugs. They also have a track record.

The division is poor. We failed to make the play offs. Therefore we are poor. It's as simple as that.

Come August all the excitement starts all over again. New manager, new players, new style, new optimism. Football following SUFC is ever thus. Still nowhere near the bleak days

You're right 1984/85 was horrendous.

 

[dannypav]

I really thought after our points total last season and the likes of Swindon , Shrewsbury , Crawley and Crewe all going up , we would do well in what I thought ( and still do ) was a poor division.
We all know the trials and tribulations of following Southend , so I should not have been that surprised by how things worked out.
Certain things went against us ( all well documented before ) but we still had plenty of opportunities which we failed to take.
Next Season ?
A lot depends on who stays and who Brown brings in , and I will turn up in August ( or is it July ? ) with my usual 'blind optimism' all ready to take a bashing again.
If Colchester do get relegated , it will at least make it slightly more bearable , but all in all I so wish we did not have to face the endless rounds of the same old Northern fodder again - but alas , we do.

 

[Mick]

Factually not true. Our existence was exclusively third tier until 1966.
And for 47 years we've been going back and for between three and four excepting the heady 90s.
We belong nowhere.
We belong where the current board, management and team unwittingly put us.
I agree that if we were Stockport fans it could be worse. Their supporters' thread blames everyone and global warming for a demise brought by their own bunch of Ron Martins.
The pluses are we're better off than most in League Two, although for what's its worth I want Barnet and Wimbledon to survive because it's two more away games I'll see.
I can get the pies and curry at the caff down the road.

True, but for 38 of those 46 years, there were only three tiers with North and South divisions.

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

but all in all I so wish we did not have to face the endless rounds of the same old Northern fodder again - but alas , we do.

It's all written down in song: "Another northern sky, another motorway parade ...." That little ditty by Moyet really rings true for us. Well, bar maybe the 'motorway parades' are sometimes a little thin, and 'Shrewsbury' will not be a venue for at least another year.

 

[maninasuitcase]

Just because of the northern location I'd like Scunthorpe to be relegated with Bury and Hartlepool.. Plus Wrexham to get promoted with Mansfield. That will give me three new grounds to visit next season.