League 2 why bother

[Tin basher]

As an Accrington Stanley fan I look at the forthcoming season and wonder why bother. We are a poor club with a very small fan base, lowest regular attendance in the football league, we finished 17th last term and have not got a team that has the remotest chance of challenging for promotion. But Luton will start on -30 points whilst Rotherham and Bournemouth will both start on -17. For anyone outside these 3 to be relegated (only 2 go down) will mean that team has had an absolute mare. So league 2 why bother?

 

[MingMong]

Because you love football?

I have regularly watched lower league football, and although the skill level isn't as high as the Premier League, the commitment and passion level is often far higher. These are guys who are playing for the love of the game and not the weekly pay packets that far exceed our annual wages. And you never know, in the lower leagues, miracles sometimes do happen and your lowly teams do manage to win promotion.

 

[Minor]

Same could have been said for Swansea City a few years back. We were on the brink of relegation to the conference. With 10 minutes left on the clock and 3-2 against Hull of all teams, we pulled off an amazing 4-2 win to remain in the leagues. This was 6 years ago. Today we play our first match in the Championship and Hull are in the fecking Premiership. Alot can happen. If all the Accrington fans had this attitude the club would go nowhere. Get behind them and be the 12th player. You just never know!

 

[Tin basher]

Because you love football? ................and you never know, in the lower leagues, miracles sometimes do happen and your lowly teams do manage to win promotion.

Spot on My head says we have no chance of going up but my heart hopes like hell that we do. That Paul Mullin can drag one more good season out of his ageing bones that what if can happen. I shall contribute to the cause with my meagre gate money when me and mini Tin basher go to a few games.

My point was with 3 teams starting on big minus points the fear of entering yet another relegation dogfight just won't happen in league 2 this year.

 

[Polkiol]

as a luton fan i say we will stay up.

going on last years stats - if we perform to playoff standard that is enough to survive

on our side is the fact that there is some crap in this division.

come on you hatters - here starts the great escape !!

 

[The Panther]

Tin Basher, it has caught to better to support your home team than being one of those idiots who support a big club and have no connection to it. Manunited fans spring to mind. I think Mingmong has hit the nail on the head.DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[gemarriott]

I like to watch the prem superstars on the box but I really enjoy going to watch "my team" whether in front of full houses at Pride Park (preferrred the old Baseball Ground) or out in the Oldham wilderness in a pre season friendly much more.

 

[fod_plod]

As an Accrington Stanley fan I look at the forthcoming season and wonder why bother. We are a poor club with a very small fan base, lowest regular attendance in the football league, we finished 17th last term and have not got a team that has the remotest chance of challenging for promotion. But Luton will start on -30 points whilst Rotherham and Bournemouth will both start on -17. For anyone outside these 3 to be relegated (only 2 go down) will mean that team has had an absolute mare. So league 2 why bother?

You bother because you are a fan of your team. You follow them through thick and thin. You watch them play on a winter night when it's ****ing down with rain and you are freezing and get bet 3-0. You sing your heart out and cheer your team on. It's horrible when you get relegated. It's the best feeling in the world when you beat relegation on the last day. Promotion isn't as good a feeling as staying up. You go into a game expecting a win, if your team go 1-0 down and pull back to get a draw you go home happy. There is nothing else that can give you as wide a range of emotions as you can get in the 90 minutes you watch the match. That's why you bother.

 

[theladf]

I was chatting to Mingmong at the Goat bash last week and I don't want the tractors to get promoted. If we were to win the Championship I think we should be allowed to sell our place in the prem. Who wants to be another Derby County. The premier league is touted as the best league in the world, my @rse is it. I will take Chelsea and Man Utd as my picks and give 10 000-1 that anyone who backs any or all of the other 18 sides won't win the league. This is a week before a ball even gets kicked. Back in the late 70's and 80's during Liverpools golden era, the league was won by Forest, Liverpool, Villa, Everton & Arsenal in just over a decade. since the Prem started 4 sides only have won it. And take away the investments of Jack Walker & Roman Abrahamovic, that would then be reduced to a Man Utd/Arsenal carve up. Being in the prem is like buying a raffle ticket for a draw that has already been carried out (or participating in a TV phone-in), unless you are one of the big 4, and even there I think that Liverpool and Arsenal's ambitions this year will be reduced to Champions League qualification. The Prem? you can keep it. It's lower down the football structure where you find the real soul of football, the top flight sold it's soul to Sky years ago. Rant overDT_Xtremez_09:

 

[muttywhitedog]

Tell that to the 650 Exeter fans who made the trip to Darlington, or the fans of Aldershot who made a winning return to league football after 16 years of oblivion.

The fans of league 2 clubs are true supporters, unlike the trendy prawn-sandwich munching corporate w@nkers that pollute the premiership grounds.

As a prawn sandwich-hating Sunderland fan, I give my utter respect to the fans of league 2 clubs.

 

[Harry B'Stard]

Lower football!

Lower football!

I know what you all mean,

having been a lifelong supporter of Oldham Athletic, I've seen them go from premiership to League 1.

I'll support them till I die!

It would be all too easy to change my alliegence to either of the teams in Manchester... but as has been said already, this is football at the grass-roots.

No money will change our fortunes.

The best we can hope for is to stay in our league.

And if our star player gets poached for a bigger team, then so what... we'll find some other bloke kicking a ball around the back alley to take his place!DT_Xtremez_28:

Here's looking forward to another exciting year...

HTB

 

[Soupdragon]

Hull City supporter here of many years standing.

we had endured 104 years of nothing... never played in the top division, never played at Wembley. The only thing of note we had won in all that time was 3rd Division (North) Champions. The nearest we had got to Wembley was as beaten semi finalists in the FA Cup in 1930

The last 7 years have nothing short of sensational for my team of under achievers, from the point of being locked out of our ground and bankruptcy threatening to have us go out of existence altogether to the ultimate day of the 24th May 2008 when we finally staked our place in the top flight.

We know we don't stand a cat in hells chance this coming season but we finally got there!! we are solvent, have a good team and a great new stadium. We're going to enjoy our season in the sun. You never know, we may even pull off the odd shock during the season

Ming Mong did indeed hit the nail right on the head. TB, if it can happen to us it can happen to anyone - keep the faith and enjoy the football

 

[Tin basher]

You bother because you are a fan of your team. You follow them through thick and thin. You watch them play on a winter night when it's ****ing down with rain and you are freezing and get bet 3-0. You sing your heart out and cheer your team on. It's horrible when you get relegated. It's the best feeling in the world when you beat relegation on the last day. Promotion isn't as good a feeling as staying up. You go into a game expecting a win, if your team go 1-0 down and pull back to get a draw you go home happy. There is nothing else that can give you as wide a range of emotions as you can get in the 90 minutes you watch the match. That's why you bother.

Totally agree with the above Fod Plod heck I even agree with HTB. Accrington is sat right between Burnley and Blackburn so the bright lights of the chumpionship and prem league are close. It would be so much simpler to jump ship and follow someone else but it ain't going to happen.