Big Clubs League 2 (4 Viewers)
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Skyblueweeman
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Didn't Man City go down to L2?
no_loyalty
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I assume he means since the rebranding?
no_loyalty
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League one, I think.
Adge
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Yes-since the formation of the “new” EFL
skybluecam
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EFL League Two - Wikipedia
You can see all clubs that have competed in L2 here. I think we're the biggest. Bolton maybe second?
Incognitocov
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Man City in 3rd tier 98/99. Smaller than us though.
covcity4life
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It's odd but I have nothing but good memories of league 2 because we bounced back at first time of asking and it has such an amazing ending
clint van damme
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There were some real lows, Morecambe away, FGR home and away, Yeovil at home.
Fortunately it all came good in the end.
covcity4life
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Yeah. They just don't bother me that's all.
Same for league one. Although enjoyed that one less cos in Birmingham(altho bianou last min winner Vs Bolton was great memory) and then season ended early.
Same for league one. Although enjoyed that one less cos in Birmingham(altho bianou last min winner Vs Bolton was great memory) and then season ended early.
2024/25 League 1 Champs?
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EFL League Two - Wikipedia
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You can see all clubs that have competed in L2 here. I think we're the biggest. Bolton maybe second?
Bournemouth, Brentford….
fernandopartridge
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2024/25 League 1 Champs?
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but to be fair, other than our top flight record, why are we not a small club?
skybluecam
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Small clubs. Small grounds. No major honours. Our average attendance is over twice the capacity of Bournemouth’s stadium!
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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I always think the play offs cloud people’s judgement - the 46 game league season was just horrendous in quality and we shouldn’t have had to go through the playoffs
losing 6-2 to Yeovil(who also did the double over us) ,Lincoln 4-2, 1-0 at home to Newport, forest green and Accrington Stanley doing the double over us… not forgetting the horrendous 4 points we dropped to Morecambe.
I have no desire to see us at that level again
rob9872
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I agree, but I think we needed to hit rock bottom, to be able to rise as we have.
Sick Boy
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Yeah we made it a lot harder than it should have been. There were some grim journeys back home after defeats.
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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I remember drawing 0-0 with chesterfield away before McNulty started scoring … he was straight through and missed an absolute sittter - I just remember thinking what the fuck have we got ourselves into.
Made an absolute horror show of that season. Thank fuck we only stayed 1 season
skybluecam
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We were lucky to get through that playoff semi as well, some very generous decisions.
rob9872
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Definitely. In fact there were times in L1 when in all seriousness I believed Robins had taken us to his limit and despite not getting involved in the taxi on here etc, I expected him to move on. So pleased he proved that wrong and he's continued to have lots of luck along the way, but manager continuity can't be underestimated.
bigfatronssba
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alexccfc99
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Lincoln were decent that season in fairness - They did lose the other semi
I really didn't want them in the final at the time they bullied us at our place
alexccfc99
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Well I say that, Big Matt Rhead the unit they had up front at the time bullied us
Evo1883
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Debatable that we're bigger than bolton historically .. now and potential wise sure but they've spent 73 years in the top flight , have an all time average similar to ours (skewed by the sisu years ) and have won more silverwareEFL League Two - Wikipedia
You can see all clubs that have competed in L2 here. I think we're the biggest. Bolton maybe second?
I'd say we are a bigger club potential wise , far bigger but they've already bagged the accolades
Flying Fokker
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What an accolade. It is shameful that we were take there.EFL League Two - Wikipedia
You can see all clubs that have competed in L2 here. I think we're the biggest. Bolton maybe second?
Flying Fokker
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Just need Sunderland to go down
Brighton Sky Blue
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Also got doubled by Forest Green in their first season as a league club. People have said we needed to go to Div 4 to rebuild properly-I disagree. Had MR somehow saved the 16/17 season it would have taken one less season to do the same job in all probability.
alexccfc99
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Not to mention he swapped Sordell, our top scorer and one of the only players in that side that actually had anything about him for Stuart Beavon
Brighton Sky Blue
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I remember Nathan Clarke in that defence who then ended up nearly going down with Grimsby in L2 the following season.
alexccfc99
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I could not stand that team, with a couple of exceptions (The academy lads, Chris Stokes and Jodi Jones) I thought they were the most dislikable squad of footballers I have ever watched to the point it actually fucks me off in our history books they got us to Wembley and won us a trophy
alexccfc99
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Willis filed under academy lads tbfForgot about stokes (good call). Jones was still finding his feet that season. Honourable mention to Jordan Willis as well. Crikey, the memories are flooding back and they ain’t good
Jordan Turnbull probably my most disliked City player of all time
Cocky fucker who did not care and got his family to slag off City fans on Twitter who were rightly concerned with the sides performances