| Never bought into the “go down and rebuild” theory but I was wrong 14:02 - Apr 10 with 1052 views | CopfordBlue |
Momentum from last season, on and off the pitch , has been a big part of why we’re in the position we are. Crucially the players and manager know that this team thrive under end of season pressure because they experienced it last season and did the job when there was no margin for error.
I wouldn’t have trusted many of the teams we have had in the past, including the great ones, to get the result we need tonight and for the rest of the season. I trust this group though. It doesn’t mean we’ll definitely get the points we need to go up but there is no way that if we don’t it will be because of “bottle”. |  |
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| Never bought into the “go down and rebuild” theory but I was wrong on 14:04 - Apr 10 with 1025 views | homer_123 |
That rebuild required new owners and a new manager.... |  |
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| Never bought into the “go down and rebuild” theory but I was wrong on 14:07 - Apr 10 with 987 views | LankHenners |
Might have the right result there but not sure about the working out.
Think we have to see the relegation and eventual promotion as two distinct events, given one was under a previous ownership, and the other post-takeover with people actually knowing what they were doing in charge.
Do agree though that having this sort of experience previously is a help for us. Conversely, Leicester have had poor ends to their seasons for the last few years and might well 'bottle' it again this year. |  |
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| Never bought into the “go down and rebuild” theory but I was wrong on 14:10 - Apr 10 with 958 views | CopfordBlue |
| Never bought into the “go down and rebuild” theory but I was wrong on 14:04 - Apr 10 by homer_123 |
That rebuild required new owners and a new manager.... |
It did. We were slowly wilting and dying as a club. I can see now that it had to get worse before it got better. For the first time I can see some positives in us going through those rotten years. Port Vale at the end of last season was a tough game but the players can draw on that experience tonight. | |
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| Never bought into the “go down and rebuild” theory but I was wrong on 14:16 - Apr 10 with 923 views | homer_123 |
| Never bought into the “go down and rebuild” theory but I was wrong on 14:07 - Apr 10 by LankHenners |
Might have the right result there but not sure about the working out.
Think we have to see the relegation and eventual promotion as two distinct events, given one was under a previous ownership, and the other post-takeover with people actually knowing what they were doing in charge.
Do agree though that having this sort of experience previously is a help for us. Conversely, Leicester have had poor ends to their seasons for the last few years and might well 'bottle' it again this year. |
Exactly Henners.
Accepting relegation was never right, under any circumstances - being relegated and us obtaining new owners are not mutually exclusive. | |
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| Never bought into the “go down and rebuild” theory but I was wrong on 14:23 - Apr 10 with 880 views | Stewart27 |
Relegation is not generally a good thing for any club. Not every team has had a GC20 style makeover like we’ve had. But I don’t believe that this would have happened has we not have got relegated. So for us it was the best possible thing that could have happened. Yes we had to endure league one for four seasons.
But I could not endure one more minute of the way things were panning out for us in the championship. And neither could 20,000 other people. Our club is better in every single way than it was 5-6 years ago. | | | |
| True to an extent on 14:25 - Apr 10 with 864 views | Dyland |
But as others have said, we were relegated under completely different ownership and management. Would Evans have sold if we were still in the Championship? We will never know. I think there's a bit of cognitive dissonance with believing relegation was somehow good.
Where I do agree is the momentum factor. I'm still convinced we'll have to play the fackin budgies in the playoffs but can we do what thems up the road did, as well as Saints, with a double promotion? We are probably closer in modus operandi to Lambert's grunts than Saints (still one of the best performances I've seen at PR at this level) but who cares... someone tell me we can do it please :)
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| Never bought into the “go down and rebuild” theory but I was wrong on 14:50 - Apr 10 with 746 views | RegencyBlue |
Go down and rebuild can work if your owner isn’t a charlatan with no idea how to run a football club. If Evans had retained ownership there wouldn’t have been any rebuilding, just further managed decline!
As it was even the illustrious Mr Evans finally realised his time here was done and sold up. Had he not done so I firmly believe that we would be a League 2 club by now. |  | | |
| Never bought into the “go down and rebuild” theory but I was wrong on 14:53 - Apr 10 with 709 views | hype313 |
If Evans was still in situ, we would be staring down the barrel of relegation from League Two. |  |
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| Never bought into the “go down and rebuild” theory but I was wrong on 14:57 - Apr 10 with 690 views | Steve_M |
| Never bought into the “go down and rebuild” theory but I was wrong on 14:07 - Apr 10 by LankHenners |
Might have the right result there but not sure about the working out.
Think we have to see the relegation and eventual promotion as two distinct events, given one was under a previous ownership, and the other post-takeover with people actually knowing what they were doing in charge.
Do agree though that having this sort of experience previously is a help for us. Conversely, Leicester have had poor ends to their seasons for the last few years and might well 'bottle' it again this year. |
We got lucky with the change of ownership, there might be an argument ME wouldn't have sold without relegation but that's impossible to know. What I do know is that with him still in charge we were drifting ever downwards and looking at a long-term future in the bottom two divisions (at best).
It was a completely different club that got promoted in just about every way that isn't ethereal. It's great at the moment but there were some very dark moments between relegation and last May. |  |
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