Gibbo
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I certainly don't want to get to the Prem. Been there for 33 years, done it, got several T shirts. Why be 17th in the football hierarchy and be trounced regularly, when you could be 27th and win most weeks?
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Broken Hearted Sky Blue
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Yes I was there too. Each one of our last day escapes produced more raw emotion than the whole of our period in the wilderness we find ourselves in. Give me the Premier any day than the dross I’ve been subjected to since our relegation from the Premier.
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Hey, I prefer lower league levels in many ways, feels more authentic, and it's easier to connect to a bloke from Rochdale who then turned up at Burton before us than it is some random superstar.
But still doesn't mean you aim to get as high as you can, and enjoy the promotions when they happen, and the survivals against the odds are something else, too. And appreciate telling people about the random superstars 20 years later. Yeah, I really did see Kyle Lightbourne live.
But still doesn't mean you aim to get as high as you can, and enjoy the promotions when they happen, and the survivals against the odds are something else, too. And appreciate telling people about the random superstars 20 years later. Yeah, I really did see Kyle Lightbourne live.
Covcraig@bury
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I’m happy in the championship. Let’s face it , 3 leagues going on in the premiership. The top6-7 them with £££££££. Then the ones with not so much . Then the ones with nothing compared with the rest or just come up ..
the championship is by far the best league ..
I’m happy here but most want more .
the championship is by far the best league ..
I’m happy here but most want more .
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Yeah give me 17th over 6th in League two scraping a draw against Morecambe any day. It’s mad that some fans want a ceiling on us
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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That 2-1 at Tottenham is one of my fondest memories.
Broken Hearted Sky Blue
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I remember that as if it were yesterday from elation to trepidation and back again. Never mind the players I think most of us were drained at the final whistle
Brighton Sky Blue
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My favourite goal, my favourite player as a kid, my favourite kit, probably my favourite game.
Covcraig@bury
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Coming up the M6 and Sunderland fans crying . Happy days
Speedies_Chips
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Whelan wasn’t it?Dublin blocking the defender;
olderskyblue
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Easy mistake to make
I was in the west terrace that day, went fucking nuts
SkyblueDad
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What about Cov 2 Yeovil 6 can’t best fixtures like that.
DannyThomas_1981
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I see what you are saying but going have to give a different view Broken Sky Blue. I've been to games since 1978. My greatest City experiences have been over the past 5 years - seeing the Club rise from the dead (League 2) and back to competing strongly in the Champ. Playing some of the most attractive football as well. The connection between the team and the fans has never been better - I'm very proud of our fans who stuck with the club all the way down to L2. Loving the turnaround this season as well.
Grendel
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How can you compare 78 the most successful league season in the top flight to the turgid shite over the last 20 years
DannyThomas_1981
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HDW I get what you are saying but the Prem is a multiple billionaire's playground now vs. when we were there before (and it was unequal enough then). Not sure I want to turn up to watch us get smashed by Man City - all for the promotion of the Man City brand across the globe. It's soulless. I'm happy to be competing in the champ for now (before we have our own billionaire owner!).
Grendel
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Our most successful season was 1977 78
DannyThomas_1981
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I don't see the last 5 years at all like that at all - we've been brilliant to watch with many amazing and unforgettable memories on the way back to the Champ.
I know that in your absolute lunacy that you are mad that Robins is in charge vs. Jackett - might prevent you from enjoying things a little more - just a thought?
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Russel Slade may be unforgettable, but amazing...?
DannyThomas_1981
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Agreed but it's not the point I was making.
And please shut up vs. stalking my posts like an obsessed lunatic - you're boring me already and it's only Friday.
SkyblueDad
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But it is eleven v eleven
DannyThomas_1981
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I'm referring to the last 5 years since the return of MR Northern - got it?
shmmeee
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Found Clive Eakins account
Brighton Sky Blue
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Dublin blocking the defender;
I was 7, I got my dad to let me stay up late to watch it on MOTD
I was 15, loved those days at Highfield Road
Old Warwickshire lad
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I take 4 grandkids up with me. I want premier league for them .
Me , I think I am happy where we are. The money would be handy though.
Me , I think I am happy where we are. The money would be handy though.
joemercersaces
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Hate to say you’re wrong, but in 1969/70 we came 6th. One place better.
robbiekeane
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Mental. I want to get promoted to the premier league then I’ll want us to get into Europa and then if by some miracle that happened I’d want champions league then the title
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Otis
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Exactly. Who wouldn't want success for their club?
If we just stayed in the Championship, flirted with the playoffs and had one or two seasons where we flirted with relegation, that's failure isnt it? Certainly isn't success.
With the size of the city and the crowds we get, we should always be aiming to be as high up in the leagues as we possibly can.
And I would love to be like Norwich. A yo yo club for sure, but now every time they come down, there is always an expectancy to go back up again and they nearly always have a very successful season then back in the Championship.
I do find it bizarre that people wouldn't want us to go up.
Skybluedownunder
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One thing I couldn’t take is getting up to the prem, not getting the results and sacking the manager. Too many managers get the sack when the team isn’t winning and it’s just the fact that the team is out of their depth in the Prem and has nothing to do with the successful manager that got them there. We’ve got the 6th longest serving manager in the football league and I am loving what he is doing for our club and id hate us to turn on him if we went up but just couldn’t hack being there
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Mcbean
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I think we would be a brilliant edition to the Prem ( not getting ahead of myself but just a thought) back pre 2000 we were very unfashionable from a lot of other clubs but I think we are working our way back into popularity as a club and a city ( apart from ccc of course) no we arnt going to beat the million dollar men every time but we might do occasionally if we could keep MR and get some investment - think our crowds would go up as Coventry is central to London and the NW Prem teams - PUSB