Best thing that happened to us....

Coming out of the championship when we did.

Gave us a chance to have a proper look at a plan going forward and to put it in place for when we returned.

The moaning about Cryne and Mansford has been replaced with congratulations and messages of thanks.... We've got a local lad leading out a very talented young squad hungry for success and with a few additions who knows where they can take us.

I'm more confident we can compete in the championship now than I was all the time we were in there last time.

 

There's some sense in that. Though I didn't agree at the time...

 

Quite right. Sometimes you have to take a step backwards to go forwards. We'd gone stale last time, we had a squad of spineless losers and we needed to start again. I'm confident that in Hecky we have a manager who will keep this momentum going.

I can't wait for August.

 

I'd have to agree with that.

Great to see all this harmony.

Long may it continue

A happy club is a prosperous club. We seem very happy at the minute.

 

Its all in the algorithm's I'm tellin thi

 

I thought getting relegated when we did was the right thing for us. Both the fans and the team were jaded. It was sapping our energy the perpetual and doomed fight against relegation with a team full of has beens and never beens.

We regrouped and looked for a different route. It may be that promotion has come a little too early for us to have moved beyond the starting phase of our long term plan but you can't look a gift horse in the mouth and we have to be brave and move forwards using the plan we have developed regardless of short term results with an eye on the future.

 

Don't think promotion has come too early at all mate. I think it's come at the perfect time. We have had champions form for 6 months now and this set of lads are more than ready for the championship.

I think that conversely if we hadn't have gone up the team would have been dismantled.

 

Johnno leaving.

That's the best thing.

 

For me, the best thing was when we realised that in order to win matches we needed to attack and score goals, instead of keeping possession for no apparent reason.

 

Patrick and Ben need to have a good summer, or it will be back to square one.

 

We've got a squad of players who at least have potential to step up to the next level. The one we had before we went down was battle hardened, but on reflection were ultimately going nowhere.

 

when something is dying on its arse is often best to put it out of its misery. although we all hated it of course with hindsight relegation did that for us.

Our task now is to hold our nerve. we've built half a squad of pretty decent league one laikers, many that other clubs are looking at. if we add to the squad with either the re signing of some loan players or players keen to improve and at the right age with a bit of luck then we can use the momentum of a winning team , i felt last time we went up under rich tea we never got going at all.

onwards and upwards!!

 

I feel we're much better prepared than last time and we actually have a plan. If we go down again we won't need to rebuild and I don't think we'll just spend our time in the Championship just papering over cracks; we'll continue our plan like we have done in L1

I also think credit has to go to Wilson and Johnson because they had to rebuild and they signed most of the key players we have. It wasn't always easy and they clearly had to do some cost-cutting which restricted them, but now we're reaping the rewards of their, and our patience imo