Quote Originally Posted by jackal2 View Post
The owners won't be getting twitchy, because they don't see football in terms of "big investment" and an instant need for promotion like previous owners have. They simply look to improve the team - at a sustainable cost - each season, making the odds of promotion steadily greater. They also recognise that there are variables in football, like injuries to your best players, that can hold back even the strongest group of players.

Don't get me wrong, the owners are ambitious and want to climb the leagues, and if the squad this season proves strong enough to win promotion they will be delighted I'm sure, but if it isn't, they'll just look to improve a bit more again next summer. There's no "top five budgets" or "promotion or bust" panic about this regime, and the club is immeasurably better for that lack of chaos and anxiety.

There was desperation at times from fans when we fell just short of promotion from the National League, but never from the owners. They just kept looking to improve within our means, and in the end the success arrived. In fact, three near misses, battling away each season at the top end of the table, did no harm in growing our support base.

As fans we increasingly need to learn to see things in the same mature, strategic and patient way the owners do.
I think most know what you are saying is accurate but bloody hell I've not got many years left and have had a bellyfull of year-on-year progression! We have rebuilt the defence (and a good job done there) so next season we should look forward to a much improved forward line? So season 25/26 there should be no more "building" excuses then?