| I'm not celebrating promotion. 10:56 - May 1 with 3336 views | TheBoyBlue |
I'm just relieved. We should never have allowed ourselves to fall into this dreadful division and even during the Evans era we had resources and facilities that most L1 teams could only dream of and should've got straight back up.
What I am celebrating though, is the style in which we've done it. That this feels like just the beginning. That we have a team, a manager, coaching team and board and owners who are with us, who care. That we are on the up.
Either way, my head still hurts! |  |
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| I'm not celebrating promotion. on 09:35 - May 2 with 435 views | ArnieM |
When we literally gave away Stewart to Sunderland for the paltry £1m, I was told by ( Bowman? Financial bloke) that had the club not accepted that money (all we could get fit him), that we would have “gone under”. His words not mine. I think Evans did save us by buying the debt , but he did little else of real development after that. I think he got bored after giving 3 managers each around £12m at that time and not seeing a quick return decided that was his lot. |  |
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| I'm not celebrating promotion. on 09:42 - May 2 with 419 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| I'm not celebrating promotion. on 07:33 - May 2 by Churchman |
How many clubs of any size have gone into ‘complete extinction’ in the past 30 years? I can’t think of one. Not one. There was no chance of it happening to this club either.
Evans didn’t save us. He saw a business opportunity and hosed it up the wall basically. He didn’t save anything. Nor did he care after the easy money opportunity had gone. It was all about costs to a minimum after that. I wish he’d never come near the club.
Did Evans sell to an appropriate owner or had he run the club down so much it wasn’t worth anything in sporting football club terms and represented an opportunity to some serious, clever people? I suspect Evans would have sold to anyone, appropriate or not, if a few pence more was on offer. Luck was on our side this time and maybe we deserved it.
Money and sport? We know the game is skewed by money, whether it’s top club leverage or unsavoury characters buying clubs that are part of society’s fabric. There’s nothing we can do about that. What Saturday tells us is that for all its contradictions, the game can bring unbridled joy to young and old. It did me. Enjoy it. [Post edited 2 May 2023 7:34]
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I can think of one, Bury. |  |
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| I'm not celebrating promotion. on 10:22 - May 2 with 393 views | TheBoyBlue |
No attempts to be edgy here. Badly phrased perhaps (most likely!), but not edgy. Also no entitlement either. We ended up where deserved because of an endless list of bad decisions at the top by the likes of Evans, Keane, Lambert, etc. But we should never have let ourselves get into that position. And having got there, we really shouldn't have made such a meal of getting out of it. Yes, many have ended up in much worse positions and I daresay if Evans was still running the club we would've been one of them. But compared to most of the clubs in L1 we had facilities and potential income from a large fanbase that could've been tapped into if it wasn't for the apathy that had been generated by those at the top. Again, we deserved to be there, but shouldn't have been. Before Gamechanger and even to an extent last season, it has been dreadful watching us having to play some of the teams we've played (and often bettered by), that blooming pizza cup and watching us playing PL's youth teams, some of the grounds we've had to go to. And I have to admit that until Gamechanger, I feared that was our lot. So yes, I am more relieved than anything about promotion from this awful division.
However, I have been celebrating as hard as anyone since Saturday. I was jumping around like a loon with the best of them after every goal and with every chant. It's just that personally, I have been celebrating that this is just a part of a process that could very well take us back to the Premier League. That we have a team who play like they do. That we have players that we can identify with and who it was a real struggle to choose a player of the season from. That we have an immensely focused manager and CEO and board who have money and resources, yes, but more importantly are making all the right decisions.
Anyway, this has created far more negativity than it was intended to (in fact it wasn't meant to create any) and taken up too much time that we should be enjoying the exciting future that potentially lies ahead.
COYBs! | |
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| I'm not celebrating promotion. on 11:29 - May 2 with 380 views | itfcsuth |
No club is immune to to relegations and falls. Look at Everton, could quite possibly be in the Championship next year, but they will thoroughly deserve it due to mismanagement, regardless of size and stature of club - that was exactly what happened to us.
The way the ownership group came in and restructured this club, bringing it really in to the 21st century is absolutely phenomenal.
The way this oil tanker has been turned, and the way McKenna, staff, players, and management have turned this club around in the last 18 months has been nothing short of incredible.
If you can't enjoy that, you will never appreciate the success in football and what it means to the staff, players and of course fans.
We are on a upward trajectory, and it is an unbelievably exciting time to see where this journey will go! |  | | |
| I'm not celebrating promotion. on 11:33 - May 2 with 378 views | TheBoyBlue |
| I'm not celebrating promotion. on 11:29 - May 2 by itfcsuth |
No club is immune to to relegations and falls. Look at Everton, could quite possibly be in the Championship next year, but they will thoroughly deserve it due to mismanagement, regardless of size and stature of club - that was exactly what happened to us.
The way the ownership group came in and restructured this club, bringing it really in to the 21st century is absolutely phenomenal.
The way this oil tanker has been turned, and the way McKenna, staff, players, and management have turned this club around in the last 18 months has been nothing short of incredible.
If you can't enjoy that, you will never appreciate the success in football and what it means to the staff, players and of course fans.
We are on a upward trajectory, and it is an unbelievably exciting time to see where this journey will go! |
Entirely agree. | |
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