Still top ten...

[JamesMcClean]

When you’re stuck in the League of Fun, all such arguments are moot frankly. Does it actually matter? Down south for instance, Leeds United are by every measure a far bigger Club than Bournemouth for instance. Except in one - Leeds are in the Championship while Bournemouth are in the Premier League and frankly in many ways that trumps everything else.

Also, regarding ourselves as a Club, being in the top flight is everything. In terms of status, money, attractiveness to players, etc etc. it doesn’t matter how big a fan base you have, these elements are essential to being a ‘Big’ Club and we need it back pronto. We have a laugh over the Funny team’s demise through the 70s onwards and the subsequent reversal in sizes of the respective Club’s support, but we’ve kinda got away with it over the last decade as they have continued to have been just as honking as ever in that time. But if they were to suddenly put in a consistent period of relative success and improvement while we maintained our own recent Funny behaviour, then crowd sizes could easily reverse again in the future. Just like we ourselves managed from the 60s onwards.

This Club was built in its present form from over 60 years ago and it’s taken a lot of sweat, toil, tears and sheer bloody hard work to get it to where it is today. It would be tragic for it all to get chucked away by idiots in a fraction of that time. For that particular warning from history you only have to look 100 yards up the road……………….