Quite perverse

[derbyskyblue]

but is anyone else thinking, like me of all the new and shite grounds were going to next season, and actually looking forward to it.

Most of them will be standing and proper old footy stadiums. Terracing etc, bovril at half time from a fat fooka with a big fat fookin flask strapped to his back. Takes me back it does. I'm quite looking forward to it.

I wont deny ive had a few scoops tonight.

 

[kg82]

No! I'm dreading another relegation. I know what you mean about the grounds, but it's the last thing I'm thinking about right now. We would need significant investment in the team even now to compete near the top in League 1.

 

[derbyskyblue]

Ahh your too young kg82, proper footy is about to hit us....well in 9 months or so. PUSB

 

[kg82]

Ahh your too young kg82, proper footy is about to hit us....well in 9 months or so. PUSB

Not young enough. I've seen us finish in the top half of a table since I started supporting them, and that's early 90's although 1st game was in 86. I just want to see success. I get it about seeing proper old grounds etc etc but I hate how far we've fallen.

 

[Otis]

No, dreading it. You do know don't you that we are going to be the number one target, the perceived 'big club' that everyone will want to beat and will raise their game for. Think we now just see ourselves as a small club on the slide, but in League One our new division rivals will see it quite differently.

Why can't people just let us die in peace.

 

[Covstu]

will hate league one, playing shite teams in the back end of beyond. We will struggle there also!! AAGGGHHHHHH! Someone fix our club and quick!!!

 

[pusbccfc]

It might seem all fairytale, but when your standing with the 97 that make the trip to grimsby next december when we are sitting in mid table it won't be all fun and games then.

 

[TheParsonsHose]

It might seem all fairytale, but when your standing with the 97 that make the trip to grimsby next december when we are sitting in mid table it won't be all fun and games then.

At least the bovril wont sell out so DerbySkyblue will be a happy man!

 

[sky blue zam]

A trip to wembley for the Johnstones paint trophy awaits us. PUSB

 

[Otis]

A trip to Rochdale for a Johnstones Paint Trophy first round defeat awaits us you mean.

 

[covcity4life]

no real fan is looking forward to league one.

 

[We'll_live_and_die]

I am looking forward to watching some real football.

 

[Voice_of_Reason]

but is anyone else thinking, like me of all the new and shite grounds were going to next season, and actually looking forward to it.

Most of them will be standing and proper old footy stadiums. Terracing etc, bovril at half time from a fat fooka with a big fat fookin flask strapped to his back. Takes me back it does. I'm quite looking forward to it.

I wont deny ive had a few scoops tonight.

Yeah !!!! Remember Wall's Mobile Catering going round Highfield Road serving tea in plastic cups ? Big tank of stwed tea on his back !!!

 

[WillieStanley]

I remember Leeds fans saying how refreshing League 1 was... Although they weren't too gutted when they got promoted!

 

[Otis]

I am looking forward to watching some real football.

Go support someone else then!!!

 

[We'll_live_and_die]

Go support someone else then!!!

Nah when we get relegated and lose the "stars" like Clingan, Juke, and errrrrmmmm??? We might get some real gritty determined players like Le Fondre and Lambert. Quality players that are out to prove their salt as they haven't hit the massive pay day of the Championship or Premier League yet.

 

[ICHAN]

If we do go down these players are going to have to show a bit more determination and desire otherwise they will get hammered,
Get mcgrath , speedie and wise in in pre-season to toughen them up abit.

 

[skybluesteve76]

We've got to step up about twenty gears after the league one game I watched on the box last night!:-( its very blood and thunder and extremely quick.

 

[Otis]

If it's quick we are fooked then. I reckon we should change our name to Snailpace FC.

 

[curlyc_]

did someone mention us in midtable at christmas???

 

[joemercersaces]

I hope we don't go down because if we can somehow cling on this season the tide might, just might turn. All the years we held on to first division football then premier league football there was always an argument that if we went down we could come back stronger. Well so much for that theory. The reality is that the club is totally handicapped by finances and unless that changes we will go down eventually. I do accept that it will probably be this year.

But there's a difference this time. The third tier is too low for us just as it realistically was too low for Man City, Leeds, Leicester, Southampton and Norwich. It will also be too low for Sheff wed and Utd and for Charlton, they'll all come back and so will we.

We are too big a city with too strong a tradition to remain there. Our ground will make a mockery of most of the others and so will our support because once we start winning and winning well it won't matter what league we're in, people will come and enjoy it. It may not be the first season but it won't be long.

And then when we do come back we'll have the support and momentum again. Everything turns eventually. We'll never be in the Champions League but one day we will be back in the Premiership - we will.

The thing to do now is make this whole situation a motivator for stubborn support, like Man City did. We make it a point of still singing defiantly and next year we travel in numbers. I've seen it in sport so often, like fans singing even more when they are being hammered, singing 'we're going to win 5-4' that sort of thing.

We the fans didn't get us into this mess, we'll still be here after the crap board and crap players have fucked off (well I will) and when the fun starts we'll be there.

 

[ICHAN]

did someone mention us in midtable at christmas???

You just curlyc_

 

[Johnnythespider]

no real fan is looking forward to league one.

A slightly superior, i'm better than you attitude if you don't mind me saying. Do you think those fans that watch there team play in league one, two or even the blue square don't look forward to it. What about all those who watched us before JH arrived, were they not real fans. I am looking forward to us finding our level and starting to win on a regular basis whatever league that may be, only then will this club start to build some momentum and move forward. Oh does 35 years class me as a real fan.

 

[Cobi Jones's Dreads]

A slightly superior, i'm better than you attitude if you don't mind me saying. Do you think those fans that watch there team play in league one, two or even the blue square don't look forward to it. What about all those who watched us before JH arrived, were they not real fans. I am looking forward to us finding our level and starting to win on a regular basis whatever league that may be, only then will this club start to build some momentum and move forward. Oh does 35 years class me as a real fan.

Good statements, valid point. :claping hands:

 

[Otis]

A slightly superior, i'm better than you attitude if you don't mind me saying. Do you think those fans that watch there team play in league one, two or even the blue square don't look forward to it. What about all those who watched us before JH arrived, were they not real fans. I am looking forward to us finding our level and starting to win on a regular basis whatever league that may be, only then will this club start to build some momentum and move forward. Oh does 35 years class me as a real fan.

Think the fear is though that our level could be several leagues below.

 

[rob9872]

My biggest fear of relegation is that our ground will appear too big for us and the days of sell-out crowds and turning up wondering whether we'll be able to squeeze into the ground will be behind us.

 

[skybluelee]

Looking forward to the short trip to Bournemouth and (possibly) Yeovil.

 

[bluesky]

I'm looking forward to league 1, it makes me laugh how people tout the real fan tag around.

 

[TheSnoz]

Hey, we're 20 games in. Whatever happened to 'we'll fight til the game is won?' There's a lot of defeatism around here.

 

[bluesky]

But what are we fighting for? another season of gates falling even more? another season of hoping we can scrap ourselves away from relegation? i do not think it is 100% we would do well in league 1 but i think we have a better chance of doing well in league 1 then we do in the championship and i personally would rather be behind that then what we have been sufering for the last few seasons.

 

[Otis]

Hey, we're 20 games in. Whatever happened to 'we'll fight til the game is won?' There's a lot of defeatism around here.

Trouble is, I see vey little 'fight' out there on the pitch at the moment. We are more playful kittens than roaring lions i'm afraid.

 

[blueflint]

:blue::blue::blue:

 

[covcity4life]

A slightly superior, i'm better than you attitude if you don't mind me saying. Do you think those fans that watch there team play in league one, two or even the blue square don't look forward to it. What about all those who watched us before JH arrived, were they not real fans. I am looking forward to us finding our level and starting to win on a regular basis whatever league that may be, only then will this club start to build some momentum and move forward. Oh does 35 years class me as a real fan.

what real fan looks forward to their beleoved team getting RELEGATED?????????????????????????????????????????????

fucking ridiculous

 

[TheSnoz]

I'm talking about defeatism amongst the fans. Not the players. It looks like a lot of fans haven't got any fight left in them. Surely a team can get lifted by supporters right behind them. At the minute, a lot of fans have abandoned the club completely, some only go to away games (and then criticise Sisu for not bringing in loans etc) - I don't like SISU but they're not on the pitch. And the rest are very divided. Easy to support a club on the up, the test is supporting it when it is going through bad times. Just imagine, 25,000 turn up against Hull. What a difference that would make - in so many ways. For a very big city we have very very fickle fans. Said it before and I'll say it again, the loyalists are brilliant - I see a guy in a motorised wheelchair every week, young guy, obviously a big City fan - year in year out - against all the odds stacked against him - he gets there & supports his team. We need a few more like him. But the stayaways are a part of the problem and its a longstanding problem, generations. Good support, good team. The fairweathers let us down.

 

[Johnnythespider]

what real fan looks forward to their beleoved team getting RELEGATED?????????????????????????????????????????????

fucking ridiculous

The kind of real fan who's looking at the next 5 years and not the next six months. The kind of real fan who realises his beloved team have not competed at the top end of this league in the ten years we've been in it. I'll tell you what i think is ridiculous, wanting to continually watch our beloved team struggling with declining gates and less and less young fans taking the place of the older ones who have become disenfranchised with the club. i'll take a league one promotion push over finishing 21st in the championship ta very much, if you feel that's ridiculous that's upto you.