Relegation Thread 2017/18

[Soup Ladle]

You don't want to get relegated down there at all.

The standard is shite, much worse than L2, teams bring 20 away fans and celebrate against you like they've won the Champions League (e.g. Sutton)

I can name only one side I've seen this season that's played good football against us (and ironically still lost to us - Dagenham).

You'll lose at home to teams you never thought would ever be in the same league/or never heard of.

You'll have to come to terms with the fact that your team now is just as crap as most of the others there.

You'll play other ex-league sides and it feels like a wake in memory of football league times past.

The refs are mostly bonkers. The gamesmanship is terrible. Then you realise you have to employ the same tactics to preserve a 1-0 lead at Guiseley.

On the plus side, you'll have fond memories of the complete lack of composure strikers have in front of goal. Your side will make yet another laughable defensive error, letting them in clean through. That feared Conference striker with 15 goals already this season bursts in, then either completely miskicks or blazes over with only the 'keeper to beat.

Your crowds will fall as ours are starting to as a result of the turgid football.

You'll probably have to scrap your youth team if you don't go up at the first attempt as it appears likely we'll have to do.

So all in all, just don't get relegated is the simple answer. And don't get complacent like we did and thought it would never happen.

 

[AdamStag]

You don't want to get relegated down there at all.

The standard is shite, much worse than L2, teams bring 20 away fans and celebrate against you like they've won the Champions League (e.g. Sutton)

I can name only one side I've seen this season that's played good football against us (and ironically still lost to us - Dagenham).

You'll lose at home to teams you never thought would ever be in the same league/or never heard of.

You'll have to come to terms with the fact that your team now is just as crap as most of the others there.

You'll play other ex-league sides and it feels like a wake in memory of football league times past.

The refs are mostly bonkers. The gamesmanship is terrible. Then you realise you have to employ the same tactics to preserve a 1-0 lead at Guiseley.

On the plus side, you'll have fond memories of the complete lack of composure strikers have in front of goal. Your side will make yet another laughable defensive error, letting them in clean through. That feared Conference striker with 15 goals already this season bursts in, then either completely miskicks or blazes over with only the 'keeper to beat.

Your crowds will fall as ours are starting to as a result of the turgid football.

You'll probably have to scrap your youth team if you don't go up at the first attempt as it appears likely we'll have to do.

So all in all, just don't get relegated is the simple answer. And don't get complacent like we did and thought it would never happen.

That's pretty much whatever i've always said.

Having being relegated and spending 5 years down there, trust me, I know the deal.

Hope you return soon

 

[Chief Rocka]

Soup Ladle knocks it out the park with that summary

 

[TimeyWimey]

I wouldn’t be arsed if we stay down there for 20 years at the moment. Rather be an ambitious non-league side than a lower League 2 side completely fucking obsessed with the academy where the first teams only purpose is to give the likes of Ollie Turton and Perry Ng false hope of being good enough.

Non-League would force the club to change. Hallelujah.

 

[AdamStag]

I think it was our 2nd season that it dawned on us - bet you've not beaten this yet (for away fans)

http://www.stagsnet.net/match/reports/viewreport.php?matchid=419&seasonid=10

Blue Square Premier

Mansfield Town
0 - 0
Grays Athletic

Attendance: 2,726 (8 (eight) from Grays)

Date: 5 December 2009

Or that away - losing 4-0 to a club you've never heard of infront of 316!

Blue Square Bet Premier

Hayes & Yeading United
4 - 0
Mansfield Town
Pritchard 12, Buchanan 20, 25, Thompson og 81.

Sent Off: Connor 30.
Attendance: 316 (approx 80 from Mansfield)

Date: 9 April 2011

 

[Soup Ladle]

Rather be an ambitious non-league side than a lower League 2 side .

Trust me you wouldn’t. You’d change that opinion when you get beat at home by a part time side on the opening day as we did.

I think it was our 2nd season that it dawned on us - bet you've not beaten this yet (for away fans)

http://www.stagsnet.net/match/reports/viewreport.php?matchid=419&seasonid=10

Blue Square Premier

Mansfield Town
0 - 0
Grays Athletic

Attendance: 2,726 (8 (eight) from Grays)

Date: 5 December 2009

Or that away - losing 4-0 to a club you've never heard of infront of 316!

Blue Square Bet Premier

Hayes & Yeading United
4 - 0
Mansfield Town
Pritchard 12, Buchanan 20, 25, Thompson og 81.

Sent Off: Connor 30.
Attendance: 316 (approx 80 from Mansfield)

Date: 9 April 2011

Not as bad as that yet, it’s our first season so coming to Hartlepool first time doubles some away contingents to 60 odd.

Some teams bring L2 numbers. Even Chester brought 200 here on a Tuesday night. Tranmere took about the same.

 

[Si Robin]

Or, you could be like us and come straight back up having accrued over 100 points for the first time in your history, going on a record unbeaten run, losing only 5 games all season (once at home).

You could also actually get on telly a few times, or in our case, more regular league games in one season than in the previous 128 years of our history.

The National League was great.

 

[GTFCfish]

Or, you could be like us and come straight back up having accrued over 100 points for the first time in your history, going on a record unbeaten run, losing only 5 games all season (once at home).

You could also actually get on telly a few times, or in our case, more regular league games in one season than in the previous 128 years of our history.

The National League was great.

And then last season you played like you couldn't wait to get back there.
(Exception being both games against us of course)

 

[GTFCfish]

You don't want to get relegated down there at all.

The standard is shite, much worse than L2, teams bring 20 away fans and celebrate against you like they've won the Champions League (e.g. Sutton)

I can name only one side I've seen this season that's played good football against us (and ironically still lost to us - Dagenham).

You'll lose at home to teams you never thought would ever be in the same league/or never heard of.

You'll have to come to terms with the fact that your team now is just as crap as most of the others there.

You'll play other ex-league sides and it feels like a wake in memory of football league times past.

The refs are mostly bonkers. The gamesmanship is terrible. Then you realise you have to employ the same tactics to preserve a 1-0 lead at Guiseley.

On the plus side, you'll have fond memories of the complete lack of composure strikers have in front of goal. Your side will make yet another laughable defensive error, letting them in clean through. That feared Conference striker with 15 goals already this season bursts in, then either completely miskicks or blazes over with only the 'keeper to beat.

Your crowds will fall as ours are starting to as a result of the turgid football.

You'll probably have to scrap your youth team if you don't go up at the first attempt as it appears likely we'll have to do.

So all in all, just don't get relegated is the simple answer. And don't get complacent like we did and thought it would never happen.

So, you enjoying it then?

In seriousness what you need to get out of that division is a proven 30+ goals a season non league striker to fire you to promotion, but not sure where you might find one they are like gold dust.
My advice is if you ever get hold of someone like that, fucking keep him.

 

[Chief Rocka]

So, you enjoying it then?

In seriousness what you need to get out of that division is a proven 30+ goals a season non league striker to fire you to promotion, but not sure where you might find one they are like gold dust.
My advice is if you ever get hold of someone like that, fucking keep him.

We potentially had one then the dog's knob went on strike to force a move to fucking Newport.

 

[hellogregory]

I hated our season in the conference.

The standard was absolutely shite, it made looking up at League 2 seem like the Champions League.

We got promoted from the cesspit at our first attempt (thank fuck!) and I think we only played well in about 3 games all season. That’s how shite it was.

I’d rather spend 10 years finishing third bottom of league 2 than endure another season in that shit hole of a pub league.

 

[Luke Imp]

So, you enjoying it then?

In seriousness what you need to get out of that division is a proven 30+ goals a season non league striker to fire you to promotion, but not sure where you might find one they are like gold dust.
My advice is if you ever get hold of someone like that, fucking keep him.

Our top scorer was 15.

Although I know what you mean, but that's like any division. It'd be interesting to know what the top scorers of the promoted sides got over the going back the last decade, though. And perhaps what % they scored of the teams total.

 

[PaulHaddock]

Our top scorer was 15.

Although I know what you mean, but that's like any division. It'd be interesting to know what the top scorers of the promoted sides got over the going back the last decade, though. And perhaps what % they scored of the teams total.

Before you guys, the last 5 Conference winners had the top scorer in the league (Holman, Akinde, Gray, Green, Vardy, Tubbs).

 

[Soup Ladle]

I hated our season in the conference.

The standard was absolutely shite, it made looking up at League 2 seem like the Champions League.

This.

I look at the L2 table from time to time, but I couldn't face it for about 2 months of this season.

I load up the table now and see teams like Stevenage and Crawley and think, 'wow, I wish we were as good as them'

 

[shoddycollins]

Or, you could be like us and come straight back up having accrued over 100 points for the first time in your history, going on a record unbeaten run, losing only 5 games all season (once at home).

You could also actually get on telly a few times, or in our case, more regular league games in one season than in the previous 128 years of our history.

The National League was great.

How's things going in League One?

 

[Si Robin]

Might be worth asking someone who supports a team in League One.

 

[Casey]

Nearly all the time I've watched Crawley we've been pretty crap. We just had a couple of good teams that got us promoted and then hung on .... grimly.

My memories of the national league are bookended by two good teams so a Rosey tint often comes to the fore but truthfully most of the time we were just part of the general shit.

Each division you go up the quality does increase. I must remember to tell myself that as I watch us bore the whole world again.

Casey

 

[Trapdoor]

My username is in remembrance of the drop. It genuinely is a trapdoor into the darkest pit. You may eventually emerge, but you won't ever be the same again. I'm still horribly mentally scarred from it, but tbh towards the end of our stint there I started to enjoy it because we had changed the club structure and rebuilt the squad.

 

[Urban]

We're strapped in the 24th position guys, so fight it out for the pleasure of accompanying us to Fylde next season.

 

[The Jovial Forester]

Back in the shite with a threadbare squad.

 

[MrGloverLover]

We lost 0-2 at home to Lincoln (Lincoln FFS!?) and the first thing our manager wants to say in the post-match interview is "I will never give up".

That's the saddest thing any Yeovil fan could hear at the moment. We are doomed.

 

[Alain]

Harry Kewell is starting to turn the team around - a much better solid and all round performance against Mansfield at home yesterday and another three points to hopefully safety - we still need a striker but that's most teams in this division - onwards and upwards

 

[#Beebot]

The NL is dire this year. At Maidenhead we have a weaker squad than the one that took us up from the NLS and we've been playing a centre mid up front since Tarpey left but we're still sitting comfortably in mid table.

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[Andy Proctor]

We're strapped in the 24th position guys, so fight it out for the pleasure of accompanying us to Fylde next season.

If akinde Campbell ryce tarpey and coulthurst had been fit most games you would be around 10th as they score and assist alot.

 

[#Beebot]

If akinde Campbell ryce tarpey and coulthurst had been fit most games you would be around 10th as they score and assist alot.

We have 3 of those 4 fit and still look like an NL team, largely due to McGhee's awful tactics and team selections. He's not even starting Coulthirst because he thinks a midfield 3 with two Conf South players is better than starting two of the best forwards in the division.

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[GodsGift]

We lost 0-2 at home to Lincoln (Lincoln FFS!?)

What's that supposed to mean? We reached the quarter final of the FA Cup don't you know!

 

[Urban]

If akinde Campbell ryce tarpey and coulthurst had been fit most games you would be around 10th as they score and assist alot.

Yeah you'd think but having absolutely no midfield bar a 20 year old CM who looked great but hasn't been given any rest and now looks a shadow of his former self, on top of a new ballbag manager that plays ballbag tactics with even ballbag-ier team selections, hasn't helped our case.

Genuinely think McGhee has taken this job for a jolly. We didn't win for 14 games under Rossi with our injury crisis but we're playing worse football now, and the players seem to have even less confidence. He's a fucking moron.

 

[GEORGE]

Yeah you'd think but having absolutely no midfield bar a 20 year old CM who looked great but hasn't been given any rest and now looks a shadow of his former self, on top of a new ballbag manager that plays ballbag tactics with even ballbag-ier team selections, hasn't helped our case.

Genuinely think McGhee has taken this job for a jolly. We didn't win for 14 games under Rossi with our injury crisis but we're playing worse football now, and the players seem to have even less confidence. He's a fucking moron.

McGee has probably only taken the job while he waits for a better offer. That's what he did to us.But in that time he signed a bunch of Scottish rejects who were simply not up to the job.The man is not only a moron but a bloody crook.

 

[#Beebot]

McGee has probably only taken the job while he waits for a better offer. That's what he did to us.But in that time he signed a bunch of Scottish rejects who were simply not up to the job.The man is not only a moron but a bloody crook.

This is why he needs to go now. The squad has enough dross as it is, I can't bear the thought of what he'd do to us if given a transfer window.

I certainly can't see him getting a better offer at this stage of his career though. Cannot believe we gave him a contract until the end of the season.

 

[GTFCfish]

I've no idea how the Chesterfield v Barnet match went in terms of who deserved to win etc but that own goal has to go down as seriously fucking unlucky!