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I think this is comfortably the most re-assuring "everything will be ok" thread I've read.
"The real nightmare would be seeing your side bottom of the league and going into administration and not knowing if you even have a team to support next season. Which is what is happening to Cambridge United fans right now.
If we dont go up this season it will be a huge disappointment but at least the club is in a far healthier position both on and off the field than it was a few years ago.
The club has a far higher fan base than it had a few years ago as well. Whatever happens in the next few weeks the longterm future of the club looks good." Csboy
As football fans, we are the eternal short termers. George Burley may have worked wonders in getting Ipswich to the San Siro but as soon as it looked like his charm was wearing off, he was out of the door with seemingly little regret from the fans.
Thoroughly different scenario facing us at the moment but the short-term attitude remains. I don't know whether the total lack of recent success has made my generation of fans desperate for success or the bitter taste of past disappointments returning to more weathered fans but we expect results and we expect them now.
The expectation that being top of the league brought has to be the biggest enemy to any team that achieves that feat. Most managers of former 1st place sides spend the rest of the season trying to dampen expectations of exuberant supporters and rightly so. Leyton Orient, Swansea, Scunthorpe, Yeovil and now us have all held this position before having poor runs of form and any manager that gets his team there and keeps them there certainly has my respect.
In truth, anything above 7th place would have pleased any fan at the beginning of the season and we should certainly not lose sight of this. Only last year, we were fighting for survival in the league and with our debts, severe financial problems. Thankfully we avoided it but remember that football fortunes fall over thin lines. Candidates for the job: Tilson, Atkins and Collymore. I don't need to tell you where a desperate appointment would have left us.
Oh yeah and, of course, if we get a better result than Swansea then we're up automatically. Not dead by a long way.
"The real nightmare would be seeing your side bottom of the league and going into administration and not knowing if you even have a team to support next season. Which is what is happening to Cambridge United fans right now.
If we dont go up this season it will be a huge disappointment but at least the club is in a far healthier position both on and off the field than it was a few years ago.
The club has a far higher fan base than it had a few years ago as well. Whatever happens in the next few weeks the longterm future of the club looks good." Csboy
As football fans, we are the eternal short termers. George Burley may have worked wonders in getting Ipswich to the San Siro but as soon as it looked like his charm was wearing off, he was out of the door with seemingly little regret from the fans.
Thoroughly different scenario facing us at the moment but the short-term attitude remains. I don't know whether the total lack of recent success has made my generation of fans desperate for success or the bitter taste of past disappointments returning to more weathered fans but we expect results and we expect them now.
The expectation that being top of the league brought has to be the biggest enemy to any team that achieves that feat. Most managers of former 1st place sides spend the rest of the season trying to dampen expectations of exuberant supporters and rightly so. Leyton Orient, Swansea, Scunthorpe, Yeovil and now us have all held this position before having poor runs of form and any manager that gets his team there and keeps them there certainly has my respect.
In truth, anything above 7th place would have pleased any fan at the beginning of the season and we should certainly not lose sight of this. Only last year, we were fighting for survival in the league and with our debts, severe financial problems. Thankfully we avoided it but remember that football fortunes fall over thin lines. Candidates for the job: Tilson, Atkins and Collymore. I don't need to tell you where a desperate appointment would have left us.
Oh yeah and, of course, if we get a better result than Swansea then we're up automatically. Not dead by a long way.
