We weren't good enough and deserve to go down. Not one persons fault although some of our players and staff (past and present) should hang their heads. Time to re-group and get behind Danny and the board. I already have my season ticket for next year and like the other 'core' London Tykes will be supporting my team home and away in League 1. Looking forward to lots of winning performances next year and lots of laughs as ever. I'd like to say I've enjoyed following the reds this season but it's been 'challenging'. Highlights have been 'The train journeys', 'My son being mascot at Watford' and beating Reading away. The rest was pretty crap... You redsssss!!
You're quite right mate. At no point in the season have we felt we were being unlucky or badly done to. We started off getting thrashed at home and it's pretty much been downhill from there. I've enjoyed one or two games and there have been some good goals from Paddy, Tom and Jennings. It's also been encouraging watching M'Voto completely turn his form around. But those plus points aside it has been as dreadful a season of football that I can remember for some time. If we'd have sneaked out of it at the death again it would have been a travesty. The worst three teams should be getting relegated and we are most certainly one of those this season. There's nothing at all resting on next weekend's games, so hopefully Danny can drop all the players who are not going to be here next season and play some of the ones who may care. Would be nice to wheel a few of the waste of money players across the front of the Ponty though, so that we can give them our appreciation for their contributions this season. Frimpong, for example, must have made a pretty penny out of us for doing little more than **** all. But like I say, when you have a load of useless chumps that can barely manage a shot on goal in the last five home games of a relegation battle they deserve to go down. Not sure that us fans deserve it though, but that's another matter.
I'd add a few more positives: Cranie has looked a real class act at times this season. Ramage, although starting very slowly, gave as much to the cause as he would if he was born here. So did Jim O'Brien, like he always does. O'Grady looked good at times, lacking in a decent strike partner at others. And Luke Steele was Luke Steele. We weren't good enough. During our time in The Championship we've sold all our best players for not nearly enough money and replaced them with inferior players. When you continue to do that it will eventually catch up with you. It actually caught up with us last season but David Flitcroft inspired his team to perform heroics with an amazing demonstration of how to motivate a squad of players. But we couldn't do that over a whole season. The players were exhausted by the end of last season with half the squad on the treatment table. It would have been the same by November if we had approached this season the same way. We needed to bring in quality during the summer with the John Stones money and release a few of the players who had tried hard but really didn't have the quality. We didn't, we kept poor players on and, other than O'Grady, added relatively little to the squad. What happened today was inevitable really.
We have got what we deserved, anyway nice to see some positives been took out of the season and cant disagree with any of them.
