Quote Originally Posted by Old_pie View Post
Additionally, and I'm sure UTM has the figures, in general historically when they've done well so have we. It certainly applied to the late 50's, the late 70's, and the past few years after we dropped to the NL.
Late 1950s was when they went into the top tier for the first time since the 1920s whilst we crashed into tier 4.

Speaking of the 50s, it's only recently occurred to me just how badly timed that relegation to tier 3 in 1958 was - the worst possible season to go down to that level because it was a unique situation for that one season only where every single side in tier 3, apart from us and Doncaster (who went down with us), had finished the previous season in the top half of the table and were used to winning - something that has never happened before or since in the FL. It's almost certainly no coincidence that Doncaster dropped straight through to tier 4 with us in those circumstances.

Our best and most promising period since then coincided with Fword's worst in over a decade, them dropping into tier 2 as we went up from tier 4 to tier 2 to overtake them.

Since they won the EC, we've tended to get promoted when they have but only because their success has massively contributed to us becoming a club roughly (on average) 30-40 places lower in the pyramid than we traditionally were, to the point where we've had success by default as one of the bigger fishes in a small pond.