A Century United
Highland Exile
These depressed, defeated headlines, interespersed with rallying cries, I've seen them all before. Remember these?
Bunch of Let Downs!! Why We Are So Downhearted (fbm)!! Got To Win Our Last Three!! Poor Team Selection (wiggy, of course :p )!! It's All Over (CSJ)!! Recall Bramble!!
And I could pull up lots more that could have been written in the last two or three weeks - but they weren't, they were all posted at the middle/end of April in 2005. If you read through them, you'll find many of the same despairing "we are defeated, we have blown it" comments that we are getting now, and also lots of "It's not over until it's over, get behind the team" posts. The reason, of course, was that we had stuttered to the end of the season putting in poor performance after poor performance, and only drawn our final match at Grimsby when a win would have put us up. Here's a couple of quotes from then:
Thats it, another 10 years of nothing to look forward to. Gower will leave, Freddy will be off with the lure of big bucks and who knows who else.
theyve known what they have had to do for weeks now and theyve let themselves and everyone else down again. all this cack about 'were not buckling under the pressure' and sh*t, load of b0ll0ks
And my point? We had three games left to turn our season around. The Pessimists (and some of the Realists :p ) were convinced that the disappointment of missing out, of not winning vital winnable matches, would follow through into the play-offs, and we had no chance now of going up. We had blown it big time. And what happened next is history. The players put in three fantastic performances, beating Northampton over two legs and then matching and beating Lincoln in the Millenium Stadium. They simply didn't look like the team whose uncertain performances and blown chances looked to have lost us our chance of staying up.
And who is to say that they can't do exactly the same again? One thing is for certain. They need every one of us to get right behind them over the next three games, to put all our doubts aside, suspend our disbelief, and cheer the team on for the whole 270+ minutes of football that MIGHT be all that we have left in this League.
STAYING UP, WITH TILLY AND BRUSH!!!
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
PS do a search on Grimsby, and go back to April 2005. It is uncanny how like today it is.
Bunch of Let Downs!! Why We Are So Downhearted (fbm)!! Got To Win Our Last Three!! Poor Team Selection (wiggy, of course :p )!! It's All Over (CSJ)!! Recall Bramble!!
And I could pull up lots more that could have been written in the last two or three weeks - but they weren't, they were all posted at the middle/end of April in 2005. If you read through them, you'll find many of the same despairing "we are defeated, we have blown it" comments that we are getting now, and also lots of "It's not over until it's over, get behind the team" posts. The reason, of course, was that we had stuttered to the end of the season putting in poor performance after poor performance, and only drawn our final match at Grimsby when a win would have put us up. Here's a couple of quotes from then:
Thats it, another 10 years of nothing to look forward to. Gower will leave, Freddy will be off with the lure of big bucks and who knows who else.
theyve known what they have had to do for weeks now and theyve let themselves and everyone else down again. all this cack about 'were not buckling under the pressure' and sh*t, load of b0ll0ks
And my point? We had three games left to turn our season around. The Pessimists (and some of the Realists :p ) were convinced that the disappointment of missing out, of not winning vital winnable matches, would follow through into the play-offs, and we had no chance now of going up. We had blown it big time. And what happened next is history. The players put in three fantastic performances, beating Northampton over two legs and then matching and beating Lincoln in the Millenium Stadium. They simply didn't look like the team whose uncertain performances and blown chances looked to have lost us our chance of staying up.
And who is to say that they can't do exactly the same again? One thing is for certain. They need every one of us to get right behind them over the next three games, to put all our doubts aside, suspend our disbelief, and cheer the team on for the whole 270+ minutes of football that MIGHT be all that we have left in this League.
STAYING UP, WITH TILLY AND BRUSH!!!
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
PS do a search on Grimsby, and go back to April 2005. It is uncanny how like today it is.
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