⚽ Match Thread vs. Chesterfield FC 15.03.25 [EFL L2]

[Jampie]

It was known as the basement division because it was the lowest a professional club could possibly sink, unless you were so bad you got voted out, before they introduced relegation into the part time league. It's a division in which supporters of professional city based clubs who normally turn off for Blackpool have to go on to Fleetwood, who normally turned off for Burnley to go to Accrington, who went up to Middlesbrough but now have to stop short at Harrogate etc. It's a humiliation ritual, but some people do like that sort of thing.

Sure. But we haven't been higher than this "crap" league for a decade now. We're as high right now as we've ever been in the last ten years. I can't look at L2 and say "it's crap, we don't belong here" because a few seasons ago WE were so bad we belonged in the league below!

I think under the brothers our "natural" position in the league is somewhere in L1, and maybe higher. But before them? We were a mess. The fact that even with the injury nightmares we've had this season, we're still in a playoff position after a bad run of form tells me they're doing almost everything right. We're still above my (and I think most people on here's) start-of-season expectations.

[The Dug Out]

I like out owners, they have bought us back from oblivion but that is a far as it goes. We will,maybe, get into division one at some stage of their tenure or maybe not and that is the dilemma that NCFC has got.Are we happy to be a repetative league 2 club?, maybe a few threats at getting in the auto's or play off's on the odd occasion, flirt with relegation maybe on other seasons.

Trouble is our owners are not at all dynamic,no swaz no humour, we will be forever grateful to them but maybe they have reached their limitations, not unlike some managers that exist just to get a certain amount out of a team then that is it, mad dog Martin example.
Like many others i now feel, respectfully, that the crowds will drop, certain players that we once would have attracted will no longer find us appealing, it is just dreary same old week in week out, these injuries are another matter but it begs a question.