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I've totally forgot about this season now and am looking forward to a succesful one in league 2.

We need to all pull together and get this club out of division 4 cos we don't belong there.

I'd like to see a big, hard tackling centre back, a couple of good hard midfielders and some decent wide players and then we'll be on our way.

No fucking depressing pessimism, we're going up as fucking champions  :agree:

Just out of interest, how many teams in recent years have come straight back up after being relegated from league 1/Div 2?

Pass mate.

Alot have had succesive promotion seasons though like Carlisle just have into league 1 and Hull went from league 2 to the championship.

And how many twats are being negative on this forum?

Wrexham would be one. Huddersfield as well i think. not sure there have been to many others. i blame Ralphy for our shit season anyway

I blame the cunting board, cunt players and poor management.

Take saturday, it was clear after 5 mins that Paul Smith was injured and we carried him for the whole first half cos Iffy didn't sub him, why???  :roll:

I agree with you 100% Ralphus.

I am actually looking forward to next season now because I do believe we have the potential to come back up again.

Even though the majority of the grounds in that league are pretty pants, in a way it will be good to see a bit of character and see grounds we've never seen before and the atmosphere in the away ends will be really good aswell as I expect most will be terracing.

If we keep hold of curo and peacock next season, they could be a real good strike force in that league.

Bring it on. Rovers away first game of the season please  :D

We're all living on our Club history. But in real life we will struggle against local non league sides.
We deserve to finish bottom this season.  A massive clear out is needed.

We'll be back.

Wolves went down to this league once.

Yeah but where is our Jack Hayward?

We're back where we when I started watching Town 20 seasons ago, lets hope we have a 10 years like the 1st 10 I witnessed.

We need a manager in the mould of Lou Macari to bully the players into fitness and get us out of this league.

I dont want to shit on your thread Ralphy but we wont come straight back up, next year will be all about consilidation and rebuilding.

You never know, nobody can predict the future. It's a cliche about rebuilding and consolidation.

I can remember seeing Rotherham fans saying "were be straight back up as Champions next year!" afer being relegated from The Championship, they got that prediction spot on.  :roll:

div3's tough and all the players that come down here from div2 always say it, i don't think you'd fininsh in the play-offs.

But Oxford will win the league  :soapy tit wank:

They do every year *In their own head*  :mrgreen:

no, we'll get promoted

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

But you lot say that every fucking year!, give it up ffs.

8)  And so the banter with the oxford fans starts all over again...

Ahh league 2 life.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

its not exactly rocket science, take off your red tinted specs and, like i said, the bookies will put us up there (if we stay up, and it is still if) now that we've got jim and a chairman who will invest.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

look its easy

We're a fairly big club with an excellent history unlike most in league 2, I think is what ralphs point was.

Depressing stuff but looking at those that have gone down over the past 5 years....

04/05
Torquay - 23rd & Candidates for relegation to the conference
Wrexham - 12th League Two
Peterborough - 8th League Two
Stockpork - 20th League Two

03/04
Grimsby - 3rd League Two
Rushden - Conference football next year
Notts Cunts - 18th League Two
Wycombe - 5th League Two

02/03
Cheltenham - 6th League Two
Huddersfield - 4th League One
Mansfield  - 15th League Two
Northampton - 2nd League Two

01/02
Bournemouth - 3rd League One
Bury - 17th League Two
Wrexham - 12th League Two
Cambridge - Non League

00/01
Bristol Rovers - 9th League Two
Luton - 10th Championship
Swansea - 6th League One
Oxford -  :D

Only four plus Wrexham (who subsequently went back down) have managed to win promotion back out of the basement league.

On top of that all four have had a change of regime and a degree of investment or in Swansea’s case had serious development off the pitch.

On top of that the current top five in league two have all had varying degrees of investment from Northampton and Wycombe who have spent a considerable amount of money to the more modest yet notable Carlisle and Orient.

50% of all of those sides are now languishing in the bottom half of the table, can’t see how we'll be any different.   :(

unfortunately though history doesn't mean anything and your league status is down to results. if you look at the table there are a few teams there with decent pedigree in terms of what division they've been in over the years.

We don't belong in league 2 Oxford Fan, look at the teams in that league. Apart from yourselves, Carlisle, Rovers  and maybe Notts County, we're be the biggest club in that league next season.

Carlisle of course will be in league 1 though.

 Don't for one sec think we're too big for L2, we're there because our budget and set up is very much L2 and in  many ways sub Conference.

 Next season is about trying to hang onto league status...we've a number of players signing up who on recent evidence would struggle to get a game for Salisbury.

I'm purely judging on history Reg, i know we're shit  :soapy tit wank:

Saying we're too good for League 2 is like saying Bristol City are sleeping giants.

Hate to say it....

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I almost thought you were serious there

maybe we can do it with a new manager .. but Iffy hasnt the experience or ability im afraid

on the plus side .. i expect the youths to finally get their chance - Leigh Henry is a must for the team .. along with Caton and Lukas

If we can keep the Peaconator and Curo .. we will have one of the most potent attacks in the division

Paul Smith will do well ... as long as we sign him ... I sadly think Sean O and Rhys will be saying farewell .. but we havent a bad side for that division

 Cureton has scored one goal on an away ground this season, can you really see him plugging away on a wet Wednesday in Rochdale.

 Cureton needs to move on, SOH and Evans will leave.

 Paul Smith is a problem...he could be great but at his age after so many games wear and tear injuries tend to catch up wiht you.

what's wrong with jamie? if he's fit he could score down here.

  :fag:

Next season I will probably be happy with mid table obscurity, provided there were some signs off the pitch that we have bottomed out and things can be turned around.

:mrgreen:

too easy

the scummer and reg are right. we have no divine right to be in any league and we're not a big club. in fact, we're nobodies now.

next year will be a struggle, perhaps even with relegation.

I see people have beat me to it, but I very much doubt we will go straight back up...

P'boro...Boston are both nothing speical in league two yet beat us rather easily..

Wycombe destroyed us and they are only 5th, although they did have tyson there.

We cant even beat league two teams with our league one squad

your right although i may just add that Wycombe are a very good side even for league one standard. they'd probably still be top of league 2 had John Gorman not had personal problems

They'd also probably be promoted now, if they didnt sell Tyson to forest