| Could we go down this year? 05:35 - Feb 17 with 7238 views | daisyisabaddog |
Bearing in mind our record against top 8 teams and the next 8 games, the answer has to be yes. In fact I think I'll have a bet on it
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| Could we go down this year? on 22:59 - Feb 16 with 1870 views | TheBoyBlue |
| Could we go down this year? on 22:39 - Feb 16 by WonTheCupin78 |
A reminder of how far we have come in 3 years |
Reading this is also a chilling reminder of where we were heading. I'm convinced that if Evans had stayed here we would've been in League 2 in the following two seasons.
That McKenna came just a few months after this is staggering. [Post edited 16 Feb 2024 23:00]
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| Could we go down this year? on 03:04 - Feb 17 with 1710 views | WonTheCupin78 |
| Could we go down this year? on 22:59 - Feb 16 by TheBoyBlue |
Reading this is also a chilling reminder of where we were heading. I'm convinced that if Evans had stayed here we would've been in League 2 in the following two seasons.
That McKenna came just a few months after this is staggering. [Post edited 16 Feb 2024 23:00]
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Marked you up TBB. For some reason I'm on both arrows! | | | |
| Could we go down this year? on 07:51 - Feb 17 with 1575 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Could we go down this year? on 22:39 - Feb 16 by WonTheCupin78 |
A reminder of how far we have come in 3 years |
It's interesting, as TBB says as "a chilling reminder of where we were heading", but what led to you digging up this post from 3 years ago? Did you bookmark it or do some sort of weird search? I'm always baffled how/why people reply, seemingly out of the blue, to posts from years gone by. |  |
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| Could we go down this year? on 08:14 - Feb 17 with 1527 views | dissboy2 |
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| Could we go down this year? on 08:17 - Feb 17 with 1523 views | Churchman |
| Could we go down this year? on 22:59 - Feb 16 by TheBoyBlue |
Reading this is also a chilling reminder of where we were heading. I'm convinced that if Evans had stayed here we would've been in League 2 in the following two seasons.
That McKenna came just a few months after this is staggering. [Post edited 16 Feb 2024 23:00]
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Agree with this. There’s no way we would have survived more than another season or two in that division as things stood.
The change is extraordinary and while McKenna is rightly getting the plaudits the key is the work of Gamechanger and the people brought in which is off the scale. The club was dying. It isn’t now.
Looking at the full ground last week and the plans for the training ground, the space behind Churchmans, there is so much to do. But the potential is there. Who’d have thought we could sell 28k plus tickets every game? Not me. We could have sold more too, had the capacity been there.
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| Could we go down this year? on 08:27 - Feb 17 with 1499 views | Funge |
| Could we go down this year? on 08:17 - Feb 17 by Churchman |
Agree with this. There’s no way we would have survived more than another season or two in that division as things stood.
The change is extraordinary and while McKenna is rightly getting the plaudits the key is the work of Gamechanger and the people brought in which is off the scale. The club was dying. It isn’t now.
Looking at the full ground last week and the plans for the training ground, the space behind Churchmans, there is so much to do. But the potential is there. Who’d have thought we could sell 28k plus tickets every game? Not me. We could have sold more too, had the capacity been there.
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Morning Churchman, morning everyone.
Honestly berserk to step back and see just how far we've come, in such a short space of time.
Some of that , of course, is simply due to having management who actively wanted to see us succeed - but, even so, we're quite some way ahead of just doing the basics. It's bloody lovely.
Oli Hawkins; being passed to death by Northampton (!); losing 4-1 at home to Peterborough..... really wasn't all that long ago....
Uppa fckun Towun [Post edited 17 Feb 2024 8:27]
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| Could we go down this year? on 08:38 - Feb 17 with 1482 views | WonTheCupin78 |
| Could we go down this year? on 07:51 - Feb 17 by The_Flashing_Smile |
It's interesting, as TBB says as "a chilling reminder of where we were heading", but what led to you digging up this post from 3 years ago? Did you bookmark it or do some sort of weird search? I'm always baffled how/why people reply, seemingly out of the blue, to posts from years gone by. |
Was part of the original conversation and remembered it. | | | |
| Could we go down this year? on 08:47 - Feb 17 with 1456 views | Churchman |
| Could we go down this year? on 08:27 - Feb 17 by Funge |
Morning Churchman, morning everyone.
Honestly berserk to step back and see just how far we've come, in such a short space of time.
Some of that , of course, is simply due to having management who actively wanted to see us succeed - but, even so, we're quite some way ahead of just doing the basics. It's bloody lovely.
Oli Hawkins; being passed to death by Northampton (!); losing 4-1 at home to Peterborough..... really wasn't all that long ago....
Uppa fckun Towun [Post edited 17 Feb 2024 8:27]
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Morning Funge/all,
Yes, it feels like an age since those hope-free days. I think the low point for me was the crushings at home. Hull and Charlton in the same week wiped the floor with us. Peterborough and Sunderland didn’t need to get changed to walz off with the points again in the same week.
All of those results: utterly predictable because we couldn’t compete at any level. So depressing. What on earth was Evans doing? Five year contract for Dortmund Lambert? Dear oh dear.
The hidings at Wimbledon and Northampton, embarrassing though they were, I think proved a blessing in disguise. The new owners knew exactly what they had on their hands and when Cook lost it and publicly blew up my guess is that was the first time the warning bells rang on him too.
I wonder how long replacing him was in the planning? | | | |
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| Could we go down this year? on 09:10 - Feb 17 with 1419 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Could we go down this year? on 08:38 - Feb 17 by WonTheCupin78 |
Was part of the original conversation and remembered it. |
Blimey, you have an extraordinary memory. I can barely remember what I posted on here 3 weeks ago never mind 3 years. | |
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| Could we go down this year? (n/t) on 09:18 - Feb 17 with 1404 views | Stu_boy |
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| Could we go down this year? on 09:25 - Feb 17 with 1381 views | WeWereZombies |
| Could we go down this year? on 08:47 - Feb 17 by Churchman |
Morning Funge/all,
Yes, it feels like an age since those hope-free days. I think the low point for me was the crushings at home. Hull and Charlton in the same week wiped the floor with us. Peterborough and Sunderland didn’t need to get changed to walz off with the points again in the same week.
All of those results: utterly predictable because we couldn’t compete at any level. So depressing. What on earth was Evans doing? Five year contract for Dortmund Lambert? Dear oh dear.
The hidings at Wimbledon and Northampton, embarrassing though they were, I think proved a blessing in disguise. The new owners knew exactly what they had on their hands and when Cook lost it and publicly blew up my guess is that was the first time the warning bells rang on him too.
I wonder how long replacing him was in the planning? |
The Cook appointment will, along with Hurst, be one of the stranger ones in Town's history. A real shot in the dark, and unlike Hurst, made when ownership of the club was in the balance. Did Ashton have anything to do with it or was it before his time ? If the latter then the dismissal is a bit obvious, Ashton came in, summed up the situation and selected his own man as a replacement at the earliest opportunity. |  |
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| Could we go down this year? on 09:26 - Feb 17 with 1379 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Could we go down this year? on 08:27 - Feb 17 by Funge |
Morning Churchman, morning everyone.
Honestly berserk to step back and see just how far we've come, in such a short space of time.
Some of that , of course, is simply due to having management who actively wanted to see us succeed - but, even so, we're quite some way ahead of just doing the basics. It's bloody lovely.
Oli Hawkins; being passed to death by Northampton (!); losing 4-1 at home to Peterborough..... really wasn't all that long ago....
Uppa fckun Towun [Post edited 17 Feb 2024 8:27]
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Morning Funge!
You know, I always thought we ought to be an attractive proposition to someone, what with the history and latent/lapsed fanbase. Trying to look at it objectively, if you were looking for a lower league club to pick up and return to former glories at a bargain price, there wouldn't have been many better options. And I got stick for saying relegation to League 1 wasn't the disaster some made it out to be, but it made it more likely Evans would sell up, and at a much more doable price.
So Gamechanger have actually come along and done what I always thought could/should happen. It just seemed so obvious, albeit they've exceeded that hope/dream already. What has made it even better than I imagined was the fact that we unearthed McKenna as well. Any half decent manager could've done a decent job once the correct infrastructure (and money for better players) was put in place, but an absolutely-different-level-best-manager-outside-the-Prem wasn't even in my thinking, and that's what's pushed the project to record-breaking levels.
And when you see how far we've come in such a short time, that's why I get baffled seeing people moaning about bits and bobs here and there.
It rubs off on the rest of your life too. I swear I'm happier in myself, having such a fantastic football team that are not only effective but an absolute joy to watch style-wise too. | |
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| Could we go down this year? on 09:30 - Feb 17 with 1365 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Could we go down this year? on 09:25 - Feb 17 by WeWereZombies |
The Cook appointment will, along with Hurst, be one of the stranger ones in Town's history. A real shot in the dark, and unlike Hurst, made when ownership of the club was in the balance. Did Ashton have anything to do with it or was it before his time ? If the latter then the dismissal is a bit obvious, Ashton came in, summed up the situation and selected his own man as a replacement at the earliest opportunity. |
I don't think the Cook appointment was strange at all, let alone one of the stranger ones?! Most were saying at the time it was a bit of a coup. He'd had an excellent recent record, it wasn't remotely a "shot in the dark." | |
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| Could we go down this year? on 09:43 - Feb 17 with 1345 views | Stewart27 |
| Could we go down this year? on 07:08 - Feb 17 by Keno |
There is always a chance, all it needs is for a couple of the bottom 4 to find some form and who knows
I do worry about next season |
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A lot has been said about McKenna’s 202 points in 100 games. What about the next 500 games? Do you think it will yield 1010 points? Hardly.
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| Could we go down this year? on 09:51 - Feb 17 with 1326 views | Churchman |
| Could we go down this year? on 09:25 - Feb 17 by WeWereZombies |
The Cook appointment will, along with Hurst, be one of the stranger ones in Town's history. A real shot in the dark, and unlike Hurst, made when ownership of the club was in the balance. Did Ashton have anything to do with it or was it before his time ? If the latter then the dismissal is a bit obvious, Ashton came in, summed up the situation and selected his own man as a replacement at the earliest opportunity. |
Ashton started 1st June, Cook was appointed in March if memory serves me right. Was he ‘consulted’? Only he and the owners (O’Leary) know that.
Either way, Paul Cook's appointment was logical if Evans’ claw like grip was to remain on the club, nuts if he was in discussion re selling it, which he of course was. | | | |
| Could we go down this year? on 10:51 - Feb 17 with 1262 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
I wonder how Daisy Is a Bad Dog is doing now? Did they get banned as the trolling became more obvious or did they leave due to us doing too well for them to stomach?
That was a truly depressing time to be a Town fan, though. Definitely worth reminding ourselves of when someone gets ott about us possibly blowing 2nd place in the Championship to Leeds/Southampton! |  |
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| Could we go down this year? on 11:58 - Feb 17 with 1207 views | Ryorry |
| Could we go down this year? on 09:30 - Feb 17 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I don't think the Cook appointment was strange at all, let alone one of the stranger ones?! Most were saying at the time it was a bit of a coup. He'd had an excellent recent record, it wasn't remotely a "shot in the dark." |
Surely they were referring to the 5-year contract? Which I’d agree was one of the strangest, least fathomable, moves ever. |  |
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| Could we go down this year? on 12:18 - Feb 17 with 1182 views | WeWereZombies |
| Could we go down this year? on 11:58 - Feb 17 by Ryorry |
Surely they were referring to the 5-year contract? Which I’d agree was one of the strangest, least fathomable, moves ever. |
No, I did mean appointing Cook. Bigger job than he had ever had before, and then he came in shouting all over the place. Next was the endless appointment of mates into the backroom staff. The Lambert five year contract was slightly understandable given that he probably wanted to walk already at that point and no one sensible wanted to work for Evans . | |
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| Could we go down this year? on 12:33 - Feb 17 with 1157 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Could we go down this year? on 11:58 - Feb 17 by Ryorry |
Surely they were referring to the 5-year contract? Which I’d agree was one of the strangest, least fathomable, moves ever. |
They don't make any mention of the length of contract.
You're not referring to Lambert's 5 year extension are you? That was truly bizarre. | |
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