Time to give up on this season

[Icy Gull]

Older fans, from experience, seem to accept that our rightful place in the football league is League 1 or 2, sometimes we flirt with the upper reaches and only for one short stint did we make the very top division. It seems the younger fan has far far greater expectations that go totally against the history of this club, Maybe the two Championships and the play off victory raise expectations when in reality it was just the high spot that comes around every 20 years or so. The rest of the time we flounder in the lower reaches.

It may and hopefully will change long term when we get to Falmer but until then we are likely to be mostly shit.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Older fans, from experience, seem to accept that our rightful place in the football league is League 1 or 2, sometimes we flirt with the upper reaches and only for one short stint did we make the very top division. It seems the younger fan has far far greater expectations that go totally against the history of this club, Maybe the two Championships and the play off victory raise expectations when in reality it was just the high spot that comes around every 20 years or so. The rest of the time we flounder in the lower reaches.

It may and hopefully will change long term when we get to Falmer but until then we are likely to be mostly shit.

I think it is more that people look at Reading and Hull and assume we will be the same....although for every Reading and Hull, there is Darlington, Oxford and dare I say it Huddersfield

 

[Billy the Fish]

I can't understand the mentality of people saying we should be beating teams like Yeovil, and in the same breath say we'll definitely lose to Leeds, Southampton and Norwich.

If you're gonna be like that we might as well say f*** the football and work out results on who's got the biggest ground :

 

[Storer68]

Can't really disagree with any of that. Slade is changing the whole format of the club, from the backroom staff to the players. The squad age is down, we are not hoofing the ball, we are statistically retaining the ball and possession more than our opponents and for once we actually have a really good winger!!!!

as for "we are not hoofing the ball" - Words fail me

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I think it is more that people look at Reading and Hull and assume we will be the same....although for every Reading and Hull, there is Darlington, Oxford and dare I say it Huddersfield

I think the nearest comparison to us should be Reading. We are certainly much closer to them than Oxford (f***ed over by Kassam), Darlington (tiny club) or Huddersfield (many local teams to compete with).

Having said that, we shall make our own luck. We are a relatively young city, with a large catchment area and two universities in close proximity. There IS the potential to get decent crowds regularly.