| On reflection, perhaps getting relegated was good for us? 21:29 - Oct 7 with 1475 views | Chrisd |
You look how we’ve comeback from L1, it’s been absolutely incredible. However, perhaps we needed that relegation to clear out the deadwood and rebuild? It had to start at the very top the way we were being run by ME, he really was dragging us down as was PL with his management. You look at how things have changed over the last couple of seasons and there’s no doubt we really have risen like a phoenix from the flames. We were a club that was on its knees, but what the new owners, MA and KM have achieved on and off the pitch in such a short space of time is phenomenal. We really are a club on the resurgence, even envied by some but perhaps we did need that relegation, which was utterly woeful, to stop the rot even though it didn’t feel like it at the time? |  |
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| On reflection, perhaps getting relegated was good for us? on 21:49 - Oct 7 with 1385 views | RegencyBlue |
What was good for us was Evans finally realising his time here was done and selling up.
The relegation was a symptom of his ineptitude and would have probably been followed by another one by now had he remained. |  | | |
| On reflection, perhaps getting relegated was good for us? on 21:50 - Oct 7 with 1369 views | burnbudgiesburn |
The only good thing was that it forced Evans hand in selling up. Relegation is never a good thing by itself, if Evans had stayed and the rot continued we were looking at League 2 in all probability | | | |
| On reflection, perhaps getting relegated was good for us? on 21:54 - Oct 7 with 1335 views | Stewart27 |
It’s painstakingly obvious it was.
We just had to lose 4 years of our lives in the process. | | | |
| On reflection, perhaps getting relegated was good for us? on 00:13 - Oct 8 with 1135 views | BlueBadger |
We were in a death spiral with no clear way out. If it wasn't for our history we'd be in the Conference by now. |  |
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| On reflection, perhaps getting relegated was good for us? on 00:14 - Oct 8 with 1132 views | BlueBadger |
| On reflection, perhaps getting relegated was good for us? on 21:50 - Oct 7 by burnbudgiesburn |
The only good thing was that it forced Evans hand in selling up. Relegation is never a good thing by itself, if Evans had stayed and the rot continued we were looking at League 2 in all probability |
At best. | |
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| On reflection, perhaps getting relegated was good for us? on 07:25 - Oct 8 with 962 views | Churchman |
| On reflection, perhaps getting relegated was good for us? on 21:50 - Oct 7 by burnbudgiesburn |
The only good thing was that it forced Evans hand in selling up. Relegation is never a good thing by itself, if Evans had stayed and the rot continued we were looking at League 2 in all probability |
There’s never any good thing about relegation. L1 is a real swamp of a division. A mix of literally the good, the bad and the ugly.
Under Evans we’d be in L2 or heading for it and beyond (Conference). It was that bad here. Thank goodness that chapter is over. |  | | |
| On reflection, perhaps getting relegated was good for us? on 07:39 - Oct 8 with 937 views | Steve_M |
| On reflection, perhaps getting relegated was good for us? on 21:50 - Oct 7 by burnbudgiesburn |
The only good thing was that it forced Evans hand in selling up. Relegation is never a good thing by itself, if Evans had stayed and the rot continued we were looking at League 2 in all probability |
Very much this.
The takeover changed our fortunes not getting relegated, the counterfactual scenario where we’re drifting around mid-table in the third division is a depressing one. |  |
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| On reflection, perhaps getting relegated was good for us? on 08:09 - Oct 8 with 875 views | ibbleobble |
| On reflection, perhaps getting relegated was good for us? on 07:39 - Oct 8 by Steve_M |
Very much this.
The takeover changed our fortunes not getting relegated, the counterfactual scenario where we’re drifting around mid-table in the third division is a depressing one. |
They go hand in hand. Would the takeover have happened had we not been relegated? Probably not. There’s a sequence of events that has lead to where we are now. The 6,000 or 7,000 that stopped going which in part lead to MM’s contract not being renewed; the poor appointments that followed; ME’s inevitable and belated realisation the game was up; the sale; astute acquisitions and the implementation of a sound management hierarchy and infrastructure.
As a result, the future is looking promising once more brought about by throwing caution to the wind, not accepting mediocrity. [Post edited 8 Oct 2023 8:43]
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| On reflection, perhaps getting relegated was good for us? on 08:15 - Oct 8 with 853 views | NthQldITFC |
It certainly turned out that way, and there certainly was a suspicion that it might, but you wouldn't choose it as a strategy unless you wanted to gamble with the very existence of a club. |  |
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