lovin it lovin it lovin it

[Red Frog]

Also, why should we ignore the off-the-field aspects, as Reg has? I support a club, not just a team. I generally feel good about our performances on the pitch, but I'm *really* excited about the structure behind it that makes you feel this could be sustainable. Don't tell me anybody thought that in 03-04.

Fact is, in all my years following the Town we've never had such a good board, and experience tells you that that is what really makes a club successful in the long-term. It might even transform our club for years to come.

[Reg Smeeton]

Also Wilson will keep his mouth shut unlike Andy King who came out saying we were going to sign Owain Tudor-Jones, Bradley Orr etc. which alerted other clubs who then snapped them up.

You mean like Theo Robinson?

Kingy actually got David Norris to the club for a pre-season tour or look around or something, but he still ended up at Plymuff, who he left for a mill.

[Reg Smeeton]

Also, why should we ignore the off-the-field aspects, as Reg has? I support a club, not just a team. I generally feel good about our performances on the pitch, but I'm *really* excited about the structure behind it that makes you feel this could be sustainable. Don't tell me anybody thought that in 03-04.

Fact is, in all my years following the Town we've never had such a good board, and experience tells you that that is what really makes a club successful in the long-term. It might even transform our club for years to come.

For the purposes of this discussion....if you want to discuss how the club is run then that surely is a different debate....last season the club was being run in the same way, yet it was a disappointing season.

[Old Duffer]

The best season to be a Town fan was 1985-86

The best football we ever played was 1989-90 and 1993-94

This season has been a nice surprise.

[juddie]

not sure if you can legislate for an idiot who says one thing and does another, Reg. Wilson assumed Theo was comibng because that what the player had told him?!

 Anyway, look what theo's doing now - warming he bench: well done, lad.

You can't compare wilson and King IMO. Completely different characters.

[Reg Smeeton]

The best season to be a Town fan was 1985-86

The best football we ever played was 1989-90 and 1993-94

This season has been a nice surprise.

Surely as Old Duffer you can remember 68/69 ?

[Old Duffer]

Surely as Old Duffer you can remember 68/69 ?

The memories are still there, 68/69 was certainly successful but was not as good to watch as 1989/90 or 1993/94.

[Reg Smeeton]

not sure if you can legislate for an idiot who says one thing and does another, Reg. Wilson assumed Theo was comibng because that what the player had told him?!

 Anyway, look what theo's doing now - warming he bench: well done, lad.

You can't compare wilson and King IMO. Completely different characters.

You need a bit of luck as a manager....if Wilson had signed Robinson for the 200K mentioned and he'd struggled, would we have got Austin?

King's luck ran out when he had to lose Crosby and take on more of the coaching himself.

[Red Frog]

For the purposes of this discussion....if you want to discuss how the club is run then that surely is a different debate....last season the club was being run in the same way, yet it was a disappointing season.

The topic is "lovin it", "it" being the current season. A big part of what I'm loving is seeing our board beginning to be rewarded for the things they started turning around last year.

This is bigger, better news than any individual result, and it offers the hope of more of them to come.

[Colin Todd]

You're right about needing luck as a manager, but I think we would probably have signed austin anyway as we still wouldnt have had enough strikers and he was reletively cheap labour

[Peter Venkman]

I think its no coincidence that we have improved since Shirtliff came in as assistant manager.

But the main difference is a willingness to play good football and work as a unit while defending, and that we have found one of the real gems in English football with Charlie Austin.

Long may it continue.

[pauld]

The topic is "lovin it", "it" being the current season. A big part of what I'm loving is seeing our board beginning to be rewarded for the things they started turning around last year.

This is bigger, better news than any individual result, and it offers the hope of more of them to come.

I don't know I'd put quite so much emphasis on the infrastructural stuff as you have (in terms of why I've enjoyed this season so much, not in terms of its importance, on that I totally agree), but you have a valid point - I think it was juddie who put it best earlier in the thread when he said that the season has been all the more enjoyable because its had a quality of phoenix rising from the ashes. And, as you said, because it feels like the improvements are likely to be sustainable and ongoing, not just a one-off good season.

[Reg Smeeton]

I don't know I'd put quite so much emphasis on the infrastructural stuff as you have (in terms of why I've enjoyed this season so much, not in terms of its importance, on that I totally agree), but you have a valid point - I think it was juddie who put it best earlier in the thread when he said that the season has been all the more enjoyable because its had a quality of phoenix rising from the ashes. And, as you said, because it feels like the improvements are likely to be sustainable and ongoing, not just a one-off good season.

We need to see this feel good factor translated into improved attendances, otherwise we're still on a road to nowhere....ask David Byrne.

[juddie]

on that, I agree with your Reg. I interviewed all three members of the board for this week's programme and that was the big issue - it will decide how big the stadium becomes, how much he club will be able to sustain itself etc...

[Reg Smeeton]

on that, I agree with your Reg. I interviewed all three members of the board for this week's programme and that was the big issue - it will decide how big the stadium becomes, how much he club will be able to sustain itself etc...

The Board should look at a club like Doncaster as a template...they now average about 10,000 in their new ground on the fringe of CCC PO, having been more or less dead and buried a decade earlier, and never having any great tradition.

It would be quite conceivable that with an improved ground, a bit of success a level above we could average 12 to 13,000...with one off games needing 17 to 18 000.