I am not having a go at Darren because i know he has been around a long time but there is a generation of fans perhaps going back to as far as 2005/6 and the “Liberty era” who have generally only known good times. Fans who had never seen us play Darlington, Boston, Hartlepool, Chester and Kidderminster (our rivals from the borders). A large number of those clubs no longer exist or have had to reform as a new club, we were seconds away from being. In the same position, not once but on a number of occasions.
The PL era brought a generation of arrogance amongst certain of our fans who had forgotten where we had come from ( or were even aware of where we had come from). They thought that this was where we belonged, we did for a while but our lack of cash was always going to prevent us staying there.
I am sure i am not alone in dreaming of mid table mediocrity in the Championship, 1st games of the season back in the Championship where we played really well at Charlton and losing 2-0 with the original RM. Walking away thinking we are playing above ourselves, of feeling blessed to play amongst the big boys again.
To outplay teams with a brand of football others could only dream of to get to the promised land of the PL fully expecting to come straight back down but to have years of mid table entertainment, of being the 2nd team of every football loving fan.
To eventually sit there at the end of that period hoping to hang on for a point because we had sold our soul to the money machine that is the PL.
I just want that excitement back of being competitive of playing a nice style of football by passing quickly and effectively from back to front, of the next Darren Pratley covering every blade of grass to the next Leon cutting defences and opposition midfields apart Jason Scotland/Scot Sinclair/Wilfred Bony replacements scoring scorchers and the club board feeling that they are part of the solution not the problem.
If that’s mid table mediocrity it will do for me.
