Just for comparison.... at this same stage last season....

Played 27.
Won 6
Drawn 9
Lost 12

This season...
Played 27
Won 15
Drawn 7
Lost 5

We may be in a lower division but I think I'd be right in saying we're having more fun this time.
Many people said they'd love to see us winning games in the third division rather than the constant misery of loss after loss. That is now proving to be true.

 

Aye - relegation from (insert division of choice) worst thing that could ever happen to a club.

I now see it as some blessed relief as we get to win a few games and the outside chance to take my lad to Wembley at the end of the season. What football memories are made of the promotion after the relegation.

Quality of football often suffers, but we've been alright this season.

Relegation - its the future.

 

It is good that we are now winning consistently and it certainly brings the feel-good factor back: i'd rather be in the championship though.

 

Some of the stuff served up, albeit against lesser opposition has been on par with the Premier promotion year, our time in the Premiership and year after when we lost to Ipswich in the playoff final at the old Wembley. Some of the interplay and one touch 'pass and move' has been a joy to watch. Several of our goals scored this season would have graced any premiership MotD IMHO.

 

Correction. It was two years after relegation that we got to Wembley.

 

I've had to rein myself in a bit because I keep looking at the table and doing the maths around games to come and games in hand etc, and thinking we could soon be in the automatic places.

It's easy to get carried away by the lovely, winning football and forget we have still 19 games to play and a possible 57 more points to gain.

Someone said the other day that it's in our hands. It isn't, it's portsmouth and Lutons to lose, but if we keep on this course, I think we could be champions.

 

Unfortunately most teams slip up when nobody would expect.
Like everyone else I look at the fixtures up to the Portsmouth game (and maybe beyond and think we should win the lot) but the history of BFC tells us that it may not be so simple!

 

Just to add - I’m a Happy Clapper and expect us to win every game

 

Sometimes though, you are just too good and keep on rolling with few interruptions.

Let's hope that's the case this time.

 

I think this beats Pinnock will play for England.

 

We have Portsmouth and Sunderland to play, if we beat them there is no way they can surpass us as long as we match their results, ergo automatic promotion is in our hands. Right about Luton though.

 

I’d much rather be a yo-yo club than finishing bottom 6 but staying up in the championship season after season.

I’m confident that if we go up we’ll probably have a decent first season back there but then I reckon after a couple of players get better moves it’ll be back to been a battle to stay up every season

 

We probably have some fans who want us to miss out on the play offs in the final game or lose the play off final so they can experience a season like this one again next season, instead of being promoted and finding wins harder to come by.

 

It's a tough one.

I definitely celebrate goals more in the Championship, and an away win is like winning the lottery - that's because they're rarer occurances and against bigger clubs than down here. I love seeing us win more regularly in league 1, but there's nothing like seeing us stick it to some of the clubs in the division above who spunk millions up the wall just to lose to Barnsley.

 

Why would anyone want to stop in this awful division going to tiny little tin pot grounds instead of going to leeds sheff utd owls villa forrest derby etc??? Not so long ago we were a established championship club (most seasons ever in the 2nd tier remember) why would anyone want to yo yo out of this league just to try and get a day out at Wembley. Much rather just play big clubs every week thanks. Couple of seasons ago we were pushing for playoffs in championship till someone sold all our best players instead of giving them better contracts and going for the prem!!! Hey ho lets be happy playing wimbledon and Accrington.....

 

I'm hoping Stendl can keep this way of playing going in the championship and we build to push for premier promotion under him.

 

You totally missed my point. I did not argue that the current team was at the same standard as he Premiership one. What I was saying was, at this level, the passing movement and quality of the goals -not to mention the frequency with which they occur- makes the entertainment equal to the period I spoke about (albeit without the buzz of maximum capacity crowds and the kudos of playing the top sides)