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 Do you want Town to reach the play offs?
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immariner
February 10, 2025, 1:15pm
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Off the back of a couple of posts I read on here about the prospect of promotion coming too soon, with reference to our recent vanquished opponents, would you like Town to be in it to win it?
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I dont think you can ever say No i dont want us to be in the play offs, but we arent ready, we arent good enough to go up, and I think it harm us being in league 1 in which we could simply not compete currently
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Understand the sentiment but think it’s a dangerous mindset to have to think no. Big believer in crossing bridges if and when you get to them, think this is the same case.


All Town aren’t we

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I dont think you can ever say No i dont want us to be in the play offs, but we arent ready, we arent good enough to go up, and I think it harm us being in league 1 in which we could simply not compete currently


Yep, fair points. So once in the play-offs you'd not want us to win them because of the long-'term harm you think it'd cause?
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Yep, fair points. So once in the play-offs you'd not want us to win them because of the long-'term harm you think it'd cause?


Course I'd want us to win it. But we won't get in them so its a mute point!
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Understand the sentiment but think it’s a dangerous mindset to have to think no. Big believer in crossing bridges if and when you get to them, think this is the same case.


Not harmful at all, if you think the long-term prospects of the club would be harmed by promotion. Quite the opposite, surely? In fact, wouldn't it help stop this flip-flopping of 'Artells out' every time we have a couple of bad results, creating beautiful harmony amongst the supporters and an environment where all can grow and thrive in a culture of warmth and blame-free love 😉

Jokes aside, this is more just a thought experiment. Can football fans turn down the prospect of short-term glory, even if they think it would likely not be beneficial to their club in the longer term
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Last time we got promoted you could argue that we weren't good enough or ready. We certainly weren't the second best team in the league, yet went up anyway. Notts County and Wrexham eventually made their own way up and have done better than us. But once up you cut your cloth accordingly. League 2 is not as strong this year, we'd probably get relegated within a few seasons in L1 but what's the point of participation if you don't want to push yourselves? Every time we go up I always think of the people who have died and just missed it.


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I’m not convinced about the not in our long term interest argument. Would it be ahead of schedule, absolutely. Would we be incapable of making a step up, absolutely not. Difficult yes but not impossible.

Go hell for leather and if we go up worry about it then! Otherwise, as Rob says… what’s the point.


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I actually think a good few of our players (loan ones included)
Would cope well in L1. I think our play is better suited to L1, which is the bigger issue. We’re in L2.
Can’t see us getting into the playoffs or winning them if we did mind.
I would always want us to strive for the highest league position at all times.


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I'm firmly in the go for it camp. The hardest thing is getting there at all, so if we did go up it is the biggest hurdle overcome.

Who's to say our "technical team " wouldn't thrive in League 1?

Sell out crowds, fans right behind us anything is possible while we find our feet. It would be great all round.

If the worst happens and we got relegated we can put it down to being ahead of schedule,  if there is such a thing in the unpredictable world of football.
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