by 3 veesinarow »
03 Mar 2009 12:31
I don't really want to haul this thread to the top again, but the lack of rational perspective is really starting to get on my tits. Some "fans" will never be happy until we show Big Four style success and can therefore justify the arrogance that goes with that territory.
A recent comment stated "the glory days are long gone".
FFS, we're not Luton, Leeds or even Charlton, we are still slap bang in the middle of a promotion race. They'll only be "gone" this season if the race is lost and "long gone" when we are stuck fast in mid-table (or worse) for seasons in a row.
This is the seventh season out of the last nine where we have been involved in a PROMOTION campaign...oh yes, and I'd quite forgotten, the other two were in the Premier League.
Like it or not, and taking into account the frustration of coming back down last season, those were definitely glory days for a club that spent 135 years getting there.
Considering that there is currently ONE player at the club that was involved nine years ago, then that is some consistency to keep turning over personnel and producing squads that challenge the right end of the table year after year. What more can people possibly want from our historically small and underachieving club? Some clubs produce flash in the pan seasons and then just as fast sink back into obscurity, or worse. I remain, at worst, somewhat nervous that our current form is not good, but am absolutely convinced that we will not slide down that path. Nothing will be put right by Coppell leaving at this stage of the season, but whatever he decides to do at the end of this season, he can never be thanked enough for getting us to a position where people CAN bleat hysterically about the end of the glory days.