My 2 cents... in my experience pessimists are great at spotting risks, and optimists are great at identifying opportunities. A healthy dialogue between the groups and with the people in between, where risks and opportunities are interrogated and examined for evidence, precedent etc, is always helpful.

That's this thread in a nutshell, and that's why I've enjoyed reading it, especially the posts I find myself in disagreement with.

And while I share optimism about the club's current status and recent achievements, I have to admit from long and bitter experience that some pessimists have an almost supernatural ability to predict what's going to go wrong, sometimes years in advance, and that this club, for what it's worth, has had truly dreadful "luck" in the past. It's hard to argue we're suddenly immune from being "Nottsed" despite what appears to be competent and well resourced ownership for now.

I find the idea that we'll end up floating around League One for a while very plausible, and that this results in stagnation and other risks also very plausible, but for now I'm absolutely delighted to be in L2 with interesting promotion prospects.