The last time we were in league 2

Quoted from monkeyboy

There were some decent players in that list.
Lee Peacock,  jamie devitt, damien mccrory, olly lancashire, micheal coulson, ryan bennet. rob atkinson.

Shame the rest were pants chambers apart.

What went wrong, surely any manager of worth could have kept us in the league. gloomy days and a distant memory thank god.

I think you answer your own question there.

Just seeing Matthew Heywood's name sends shivers down the spine.

Quoted from Sigone

Didn't know Nathan Arnold went on the aborted Devon trip

Yeah we only offered him 6 month contract so he left and went to Hyde lol.

A few other players in that team Colgan, Widdowson never tried, Forbes, Jarman, Proudlock, Conlon once he got his contract was awful, Boshell, Clarke, Forecast there isn't any words to describe him, Ben Wright was the worse striker i have seen at the club and jesus i forgot about Tommy Wright he just as bad or even worse.

Hit the nail on the head, League 2 on the way up feels so much better than it did on that long way down. There was a resigned inevitability back then, now we have hope on top of pride!

Yes there was some dross in the team that went down and in the squad for a year or two before. Bad decisions were made, no money was available and the side was incredibly badly managed on the park.

This year we look to have better players and there is a spirit of optimism with the new faces. We will know more about the players and about how they are going to be fitted together as a team when we see the final few friendlies this month. Wouldn't it be great to hit the ground running in L2 and frighten a few of the fancied sides?

Remember that feeling at half-time during the opening game against Cheltenham?  One-nil up and we had absolutely wiped the floor with our hosts.  I, along with many others, were convinced we were going to win the league.

63-year-old Barry Hayles came on and bullied our weak defence all over the place, setting the tone for the rest of the season.  Our lack of fight, spirit and graft was put out there in that second half performance and we never recovered.

I don't recognise the club now from those dark days, especially around November/December 2009.  The lads that Woods brought in gave everything they could but the problems were so deep rooted relegation was on the cards long before we went down.  In hindsight it was just cruel that it took us so long to be put out of our misery.  

Best thing about league 2 this year, is we are not the favorites for every game like we was for the past 3-4 seasons.

which means teams will come at us more at BP, which means it suits Hurst!

63-year-old Barry Hayles


I remember someone who'd gone to the game told me our opening goal was the best he'd seen Town ever score.

Quoted from GtfcGarner

Our last ever L2 lineup- Colgan, Widdowson, Lancashire, Atkinson, Bore, Devitt, Hudson, Sinclair, Coulson, Peacock, Akpa-Akpro.  We've come such a long way since then. As a few have mentioned we are used to winning which is a good thing but I feel there is more of a feel good factor around the place and the manager has managed to attract names.

We put out some far worse teams than that in the past and really that team had enough to stay up but by then we were in a negative spiral and all confidence was gone.