| Would you find another promotion race exciting? 15:01 - Mar 17 with 5729 views | SaffronWaldenBlues |
I will undoubtedly get a few pelters for this, but I don't know how enjoyable it will be, in the sense last season it was very much unexpected, long over due, us against the world, and who knows what's next. I don't know what could top that feeling in terms of a promotion. I don't know how excited I am going to feel about going back up next season, knowing what is coming, especially when the teams up there will be a year further ahead of us, that we will need another overhaul and even then we could still end up doing a Norwich and coming back down again.
I am sure I will get roped into it again in some way, but I can't be the only one who has had their fingers burned with this Premier League stuff. Maybe chasing an actual league title for the first time since 1992 will be what draws me in, if we are up there. As for Playoffs, I suppose we can finally play new Wembley but the stress of Playoffs is another thing altogether!
I guess had we had a little more to enjoy I may feel differently, but the idea of doing this Premier League stuff again isn't really inspiring me. Is it just me? |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:05 - Mar 17 with 3358 views | WeirdFishes |
There will (rightly) be an expectation of promotion and therefore achieving it will feel more like we’ve just done what’s required.
We’ll never have it as good as we did in 2024, just be glad we did get that! |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:08 - Mar 17 with 3322 views | SaffronWaldenBlues |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:05 - Mar 17 by WeirdFishes |
There will (rightly) be an expectation of promotion and therefore achieving it will feel more like we’ve just done what’s required.
We’ll never have it as good as we did in 2024, just be glad we did get that! |
It was a fairytale, I was desperate to see it continue like many others, Chappers, Burns, Burgess, Wolfie and Hirst fighting to see us finish 17th.
Instead, I got Philogene, 18th and a record points low for Town in the top flight.
I guess that is running towards adversity as advertised. | |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:09 - Mar 17 with 3310 views | BseaBlue |
The only way to keep plugging at the gap is to go up again, collect the money, continue to improve the infrastructre and add more quality.
Ashton has been quick to say on numerous occasions that we are only at the beginning of the project still, which when you look at the recruitment and off the field developments is pretty bang on.
It is hard going being in the Prem at the moment and not an overly enjoyable experience but we have to live in hope that all of the things being done will only improve us for the future. I'm confident that the squad is in a considerably stronger starting position should we go down, than the last time we were in the Championship. |  | | |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:14 - Mar 17 with 3289 views | homer_123 |
Think you need to change your outlook on following a football team. IMHO.
I get it. That feeling of unfiltered joy when we got promoted back to back was intoxicating. The problem with chasing that high is that it fades, and when it does, you’re left searching for the next one. If you measure your enjoyment of football solely by the peaks, you’ll miss out on everything in between.
Football isn’t just about the destination, it’s about the journey - every season, every match, every moment of hope or despair that shapes what comes next. Some seasons are about expectation (that could apply to next season), others about survival (sadly our race appears run this season), some about rebuilding. Each carries its own story, its own moments of joy, frustration, and surprise.
Football is like life - you take the lows with the highs because they give everything meaning. If you only care about the big moments, you’ll spend most of your time waiting rather than living.
So, maybe this next promotion won’t feel exactly like 2024. Maybe it’ll be different. But different doesn’t mean worse or you won't get swept up in it - it means another chapter, another set of memories waiting to be written.
The beauty of football is that you never really know what’s coming but if you allow yourself to feel it all, you’ll never stop loving the ride. |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:19 - Mar 17 with 3236 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:14 - Mar 17 by homer_123 |
Think you need to change your outlook on following a football team. IMHO.
I get it. That feeling of unfiltered joy when we got promoted back to back was intoxicating. The problem with chasing that high is that it fades, and when it does, you’re left searching for the next one. If you measure your enjoyment of football solely by the peaks, you’ll miss out on everything in between.
Football isn’t just about the destination, it’s about the journey - every season, every match, every moment of hope or despair that shapes what comes next. Some seasons are about expectation (that could apply to next season), others about survival (sadly our race appears run this season), some about rebuilding. Each carries its own story, its own moments of joy, frustration, and surprise.
Football is like life - you take the lows with the highs because they give everything meaning. If you only care about the big moments, you’ll spend most of your time waiting rather than living.
So, maybe this next promotion won’t feel exactly like 2024. Maybe it’ll be different. But different doesn’t mean worse or you won't get swept up in it - it means another chapter, another set of memories waiting to be written.
The beauty of football is that you never really know what’s coming but if you allow yourself to feel it all, you’ll never stop loving the ride. |
What a beautiful post! |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:26 - Mar 17 with 3188 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:14 - Mar 17 by homer_123 |
Think you need to change your outlook on following a football team. IMHO.
I get it. That feeling of unfiltered joy when we got promoted back to back was intoxicating. The problem with chasing that high is that it fades, and when it does, you’re left searching for the next one. If you measure your enjoyment of football solely by the peaks, you’ll miss out on everything in between.
Football isn’t just about the destination, it’s about the journey - every season, every match, every moment of hope or despair that shapes what comes next. Some seasons are about expectation (that could apply to next season), others about survival (sadly our race appears run this season), some about rebuilding. Each carries its own story, its own moments of joy, frustration, and surprise.
Football is like life - you take the lows with the highs because they give everything meaning. If you only care about the big moments, you’ll spend most of your time waiting rather than living.
So, maybe this next promotion won’t feel exactly like 2024. Maybe it’ll be different. But different doesn’t mean worse or you won't get swept up in it - it means another chapter, another set of memories waiting to be written.
The beauty of football is that you never really know what’s coming but if you allow yourself to feel it all, you’ll never stop loving the ride. |
Homer wrote it well.
I'll just add that we seem to have more and more entitled fans creeping in. Some of our fans are morphing into Leeds fan-wannabees.
Following a club involves highs and lows. We've had too many low years across recent decades, and that can be hard for those of us who have supported the club for 50+ years, but you need to take each phase for what it is, and stick with the club.
If all that you enjoy in football is your team winning every week, then this probably isn't the sport for you. There are always cycles, be it Liverpool, Man City or Scunthorpe. Enjoy the ups, and suffer the downs until the next up arrives, |  | | |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:29 - Mar 17 with 3163 views | Steve_M |
Call me shocked that the most tediously negative poster on the forum has found something else to be negative about. |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:31 - Mar 17 with 3134 views | jasondozzell |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:14 - Mar 17 by homer_123 |
Think you need to change your outlook on following a football team. IMHO.
I get it. That feeling of unfiltered joy when we got promoted back to back was intoxicating. The problem with chasing that high is that it fades, and when it does, you’re left searching for the next one. If you measure your enjoyment of football solely by the peaks, you’ll miss out on everything in between.
Football isn’t just about the destination, it’s about the journey - every season, every match, every moment of hope or despair that shapes what comes next. Some seasons are about expectation (that could apply to next season), others about survival (sadly our race appears run this season), some about rebuilding. Each carries its own story, its own moments of joy, frustration, and surprise.
Football is like life - you take the lows with the highs because they give everything meaning. If you only care about the big moments, you’ll spend most of your time waiting rather than living.
So, maybe this next promotion won’t feel exactly like 2024. Maybe it’ll be different. But different doesn’t mean worse or you won't get swept up in it - it means another chapter, another set of memories waiting to be written.
The beauty of football is that you never really know what’s coming but if you allow yourself to feel it all, you’ll never stop loving the ride. |
Very well said.
It's why going to games in the midst of the Evans fallow years was still interesting and vital even though the football was dire and hope was non existent because it was the story of the club and a million other narratives running through it too. |  | | |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:33 - Mar 17 with 3108 views | TractorFrog |
It wouldn't be as good as the last one, but if you judge every season against 2023/24, they will all be rubbish. |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:35 - Mar 17 with 3092 views | SitfcB |
Heck I’m already excited for next season.
Should be fun! |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:36 - Mar 17 with 3070 views | WestStanderLaLaLa |
Final straw, ignore |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:38 - Mar 17 with 3059 views | BlueBadger |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:05 - Mar 17 by WeirdFishes |
There will (rightly) be an expectation of promotion and therefore achieving it will feel more like we’ve just done what’s required.
We’ll never have it as good as we did in 2024, just be glad we did get that! |
Spoiler alert: OP didn't enjoy that, either. |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:38 - Mar 17 with 3057 views | Guthrum |
No, I'd love another promotion run and, in August, be eagerly looking forward to having another tilt at the Prem, a further year along our redevelopment as a club and with all the lessons from this season digested and incorporated. |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:41 - Mar 17 with 3035 views | Bent_double |
I'm not quite sure why i haven't put the OP on ignore already, i usually just don't bother reading their posts anyway.
But to come up with a thread like this, wow, why even bother being a football supporter if that's the way you feel? |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:45 - Mar 17 with 3008 views | FrimleyBlue |
Absolutely, it would be exciting
Whilst this season hasn't gone well, it has financially set the club up for another push if we can get back up asap, the longer we stay down the more nervy it would get again, but until that happens theres every reason to be excited about a promotion battle to come back up. |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:46 - Mar 17 with 3011 views | TresBonne |
SWB do you have a job or anything? Every time I log in you have posted another mad rambling  |  | | |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:47 - Mar 17 with 3000 views | hype313 |
So you'd prefer to bimble around the Championship for 15 odd years without any hope of Play Offs, or even worse, a relegation battle?
Different I suppose. |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:48 - Mar 17 with 2992 views | Churchman |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:08 - Mar 17 by SaffronWaldenBlues |
It was a fairytale, I was desperate to see it continue like many others, Chappers, Burns, Burgess, Wolfie and Hirst fighting to see us finish 17th.
Instead, I got Philogene, 18th and a record points low for Town in the top flight.
I guess that is running towards adversity as advertised. |
Three out of the five are injured for all or in Hirst’s case half the season. The other two have played, if not regularly.
Why pick on Philogene? He’s been here just a few weeks. I know he’s loathed but whatever happened to giving somebody a chance?
Why the jibe at running towards adversity? We know how that came about and what it means. Why mock it?
If your expectation is winning most weeks forever, then I suggest FM25, Man City, Newcastle, Man C and Liverpool are the clubs for you. You will get far more pleasure than following this club and there will be a Super League in a few years too. Try Newcastle. Richest club in the world thanks to Saudi headchoppers money and on the up. Good team too.
For me, my expectations are a little lower. I’ve not enjoyed much of this season. Nobody is more disappointed than me, but that’s part of following a proper football club. Winning and losing, good and bad times with no sense of entitlement some clearly feel.
The trajectory of this club in the past four years has been mostly upwards. Sometimes you have to fight through the tougher times. Or opt out.
It’s easy to forget how just over four years ago this club was on track for League 2 and lower. It was nearly lost. |  | | |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:50 - Mar 17 with 2972 views | HighgateBlue |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:47 - Mar 17 by hype313 |
So you'd prefer to bimble around the Championship for 15 odd years without any hope of Play Offs, or even worse, a relegation battle?
Different I suppose. |
My experience of our previous bimbling was that it started off as frustrated hope, continued as disappointment, grew into tedium, then became 'the unthinkable' when we finally exited the Championship via the wrong door.
I am anti-bimble. Very decidedly anti-bimble. |  | | |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:51 - Mar 17 with 2961 views | OldFart71 |
I would think there will be a certain amount of fans that would view promotion with trepidation as they will fear that it goes t*ts up again. But it has to be the aim as Gamechanger I feel would demand every effort to get back again because as we know their aim is to make money and the only place to be is in the Premier League. | | | |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:51 - Mar 17 with 2960 views | hype313 |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:50 - Mar 17 by HighgateBlue |
My experience of our previous bimbling was that it started off as frustrated hope, continued as disappointment, grew into tedium, then became 'the unthinkable' when we finally exited the Championship via the wrong door.
I am anti-bimble. Very decidedly anti-bimble. |
We all are, but the OP seems to think a promotion race is not worth the bother.
Maybe Football isn't for him. | |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:52 - Mar 17 with 2950 views | ITFC_Forever |
Yep, would much rather be 14th (rolls eyes). |  |
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| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 16:01 - Mar 17 with 2892 views | Churchman |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:52 - Mar 17 by ITFC_Forever |
Yep, would much rather be 14th (rolls eyes). |
14th?? I particularly look back with misty eyed nostalgia of finishing 15th, watching others get promoted and playing football. Ahh, two touch the hoof! Those were the days. Mediocrity - that warm, comfortable achievable objective for a few years. | | | |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 16:07 - Mar 17 with 2844 views | itfcsuth |
I think you will always find a promotion season exciting, but the story from L1 to PL is something that will never be replicated - so it certainly wouldn't feel as special as then.
The biggest concern would now be that there would be an expectation of automatic promotion.
What will be will be as to whether we can deliver that - as have stated, the summer build of a squad/culture capable will be critical. |  | | |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 16:10 - Mar 17 with 2821 views | itfcsuth |
| Would you find another promotion race exciting? on 15:08 - Mar 17 by SaffronWaldenBlues |
It was a fairytale, I was desperate to see it continue like many others, Chappers, Burns, Burgess, Wolfie and Hirst fighting to see us finish 17th.
Instead, I got Philogene, 18th and a record points low for Town in the top flight.
I guess that is running towards adversity as advertised. |
Not sure why this has taken any downvotes.
Their was a special culture/momentum of that Championship group that we really dismantled.
I was also hoping that we would see that core of Chaplin, Broadhead, Burns, Morsy, Burgess, Davis etc still being integral members, but with support of real quality to bridge the gap.
Instead, we really just tried to replace them with overpriced Championship players who haven't really shown anything to suggest they are better than the class of 2024. [Post edited 17 Mar 19:33]
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