tr0ublegum
First XI
Matt the Shrimp, erudite you may be, but in content terms m'lad you are still talking bobbins!
Firstly, making sweeping predictions about the future is just as silly as your apparent tendency to live off past glories. You HOPE this is as good as it'll get for us. You know no such thing. I bet you were saying that when we got promoted to this level in the first place, passing you on the way. You're saying it now and I'm sure you will say it again if we get promoted this season - which is a realistic possibility, whatever you may think.
Our attendances are p*ss-poor. We do know that, it's our club after all. This doesn't make you better than us though. League tables are not determined by attendances any more than they are by achievements of the past. Look at what's happening on the pitch my friend, because that is, after all, what this beautiful game of ours is about. Our gates are severely hampered, as yours would be, by having a non-league standard ground (that's right, we're aware of that too!!!). We are praying right now that we might finally be on the verge of securing a move to the kind of facilities worthy of our current place in the table. The whole club at present is moving forward with a savvy board and an absolutely superb young manager, who I firmly believe will not jump ship at the first big-money offer, but will stay at Colchester for several years and make sure he achieves something. The team is packed with young talent, not the ex-Ipswich has-beens and never-weres of the past. I don't know if this season for us is going to be the best in our history or a huge disappointment, but until your club sorts itself out and climbs out of the dungeon, it's pointless poking fun at our gates and our stadium. You'll soon understand what I mean if Sheffield Wednesday get relegated this season and start doing the same to you!!
Furthermore, football is changing. We always ran a tidy ship and unlike most of our competitors don't now have to service huge debts as a result of financial mismanagement and spending money we haven't got. The playing field is levelling out. We haven't had to slash the wage bill or cut back in other areas and I believe that, as much as anything, is why we are climbing the league.
That's part of the reason why this....
Is b******s. The other reason: Everything in football is transitory. Nothing lasts forever (it would get pretty boring otherwise). Bolton Wanderers may not 'belong' in the top half of the Premiership. Sheffield Wednesday may not 'belong' below us! Give it 20 years and maybe we'll be back in the conference, but we're not right now and that really is what matters.
I said all these things months ago, and I'm sorry to sound like a broken record, but evidently they needed repeating.
At the moment, "League One" is where we belong, on merit, and we reckon we can go further. And yes, we'll enjoy it while it lasts, but it just might last a lot longer than you expect. I thank you.
Firstly, making sweeping predictions about the future is just as silly as your apparent tendency to live off past glories. You HOPE this is as good as it'll get for us. You know no such thing. I bet you were saying that when we got promoted to this level in the first place, passing you on the way. You're saying it now and I'm sure you will say it again if we get promoted this season - which is a realistic possibility, whatever you may think.
Our attendances are p*ss-poor. We do know that, it's our club after all. This doesn't make you better than us though. League tables are not determined by attendances any more than they are by achievements of the past. Look at what's happening on the pitch my friend, because that is, after all, what this beautiful game of ours is about. Our gates are severely hampered, as yours would be, by having a non-league standard ground (that's right, we're aware of that too!!!). We are praying right now that we might finally be on the verge of securing a move to the kind of facilities worthy of our current place in the table. The whole club at present is moving forward with a savvy board and an absolutely superb young manager, who I firmly believe will not jump ship at the first big-money offer, but will stay at Colchester for several years and make sure he achieves something. The team is packed with young talent, not the ex-Ipswich has-beens and never-weres of the past. I don't know if this season for us is going to be the best in our history or a huge disappointment, but until your club sorts itself out and climbs out of the dungeon, it's pointless poking fun at our gates and our stadium. You'll soon understand what I mean if Sheffield Wednesday get relegated this season and start doing the same to you!!
Furthermore, football is changing. We always ran a tidy ship and unlike most of our competitors don't now have to service huge debts as a result of financial mismanagement and spending money we haven't got. The playing field is levelling out. We haven't had to slash the wage bill or cut back in other areas and I believe that, as much as anything, is why we are climbing the league.
That's part of the reason why this....
[b said:
Is b******s. The other reason: Everything in football is transitory. Nothing lasts forever (it would get pretty boring otherwise). Bolton Wanderers may not 'belong' in the top half of the Premiership. Sheffield Wednesday may not 'belong' below us! Give it 20 years and maybe we'll be back in the conference, but we're not right now and that really is what matters.
I said all these things months ago, and I'm sorry to sound like a broken record, but evidently they needed repeating.
At the moment, "League One" is where we belong, on merit, and we reckon we can go further. And yes, we'll enjoy it while it lasts, but it just might last a lot longer than you expect. I thank you.
