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3 seasons of failure?
Posted by Wigmore Hat on 3/5/2026, 20:31:13
OK, so I know I'm going to be labelled as a happy clapper, but here's my opinion:
It was ridiculous, that we found ourselves in the premier league. If you'd have suggested it to ANYONE in 2018,2019 if would progress that far they would have had you sectioned. But we made it. It was surreal and we embraced it.
When 2020 took over the emphasis was sustainability. We'd bitten off more than we could chew so many times previously and now we had owners that were more concerned with keeping the team alive long term than gambling on short term success. As far as I can see, EVERYONE was on board with this. All of a sudden, the new posters were insisting we spunk £100m on a new squad. We stuck with what we knew, we didn't give ourselves years of pain with unstustainable transfer fees and contracts. Burnley and Sheffield united did just this and both of them finished below us. That season we took it to the final game against all the odds. If we hadn't have had a defensive injury crisis unheard of in modern top flight football, it would have been different, if our captain hadn't have literally stopped living during a vital game it would have been different.
I accept last season was a problem. It seems we held on to Edwards too long. It was clear he'd lost the dressing room and there was some completely unacceptable performances. The season finale at WBA, when in our own hands we shat the bed and deserved every negative comment we received.
We have always been a streaky team. For me, this season has always been about stopping the rot. I said right from August that I would take 7th. I didn't expect it to be so heart breaking but I stick with my expectations. We've stopped the downward trend. We know there will be squad movement but let's embrace it. Our promotion season the crowd got us over the line several times. If we get behind the team we could be moving into a new stadium full guns blazing. Let's not focus on missed opportunities, but ways we can become a problem for others.
Doesn’t seem to be that sustainable to pay one dipstick 20 grand a week.
How much money will be taken from the Power Court project by individuals with the club still having to service debts, surely money should be kept in house to reduce debt and/or invest in club infrastructure and the football.
Posted by Zobra The Greek on 3/5/2026, 22:18:43, in reply to "3 seasons of failure?"
I agree. A lot won’t though.
The other thing people don’t ae to be interested in is the fact that parachute payments also went on the things they were intended for, paying PL wages when you’re no longer on the PL. they’re not meant to fund a shit load of signings.
Whether you find it ridiculous that Luton made it to the Premier League, it did actually happen and the money with it.
So, you do realise that, in just 24 months, a club with crowds of 3,000 and not a pot to piss in, has finished above Luton in the playoffs? However, despite this you don’t feel the need to criticise the Board for serious mistakes and failures.
Again, take a look in the mirror, you absolute whopper! Simply an incredible achievement to chat so much BS, be wrong about pretty much everything and still have delusions of grandeur that you actually possess an ounce of intellect!
I knew you were lacking intelligence last season when you were firmly in the ‘Edwards in’ camp, when 99% of the fanbase had finally woken up!
I thought Edwards should go after losing to Sheffield United away. I said that several of times on here. That performance and lineup resembled the final days of Mike Newell. I just didn't scream it with veins bludging out of my neck like some people, because I thought Edwards deserved some respect after what he achieved. I then questioned when we didn't sack him before Christmas, and the pool of decent available managers had dried up, whether the risk was smaller continuing with him, rather than getting in someone else who didn't get the pulse racing.
My reference to the OP being blinkered was to do with the fact we've experienced both sides of the bigger club dropping down a division syndrome, and have seen how it's far from unusual to see the bigger club with more resources lose out to a smaller club who are on an upwards trajectory. Sunderland v us in L1, and our four season of conference before we got up being a couple of examples.
It's almost as though some can't quite grasp that we had the greatest chance to consolidate for many years and royally fucked it up due to arrogance and incompetence.
It wasn't ridiculous at all. The idea of playing in the Championship is that you get a chance at the PL and all that goes with it. Its was obvious we were going to struggle, and I for one wasn't insisting we spent 100m on players as that is quite frankly not going to be the case with a club of our size. However we should have used the Jan 2024 window to try and at least stay in the PL.
The only thing that concerns me is that the club will seemingly be in debt when PC is up and running. When we got to the PL I and many others believed that this would secure and pay for PC but now it appears ar will be in debt, and that isnt good for any football club.
Not really the point of my original post, but from what I understood, the terminology was always that the finance was in place. I.e. we had loans in place to pay for everything. The PL money was obviously a bonus we wern't expecting. It allowed for the larger stadium to be be built straight away rather than incurring future costs down the line expanding the stadium.
Even if we had spent none of the PL money on the Bobbers stand, promotion bonuses and wages for the PL season it still wouldn’t have been enough to pay for the ground in its entirety.
So why did GS say we only needed £30m from the PL money and we would be debt free then?
Re: 3 seasons of failure?
Posted by Poster from the past on 3/5/2026, 20:34:16, in reply to "3 seasons of failure?"
I want us to win the FA cup outlaws is not the barometer of sanity. You're either Luton full tilt or you are nothing. We have spunked way too much money on shite. The end.
Say what you like about Stevenage they are an excellent well run club their recruitment is excellent and don't waste money on journeyman. They have massively over acheived for a team playing park football 50 years ago. Whilst we with one of the biggest if not the biggest budget this season have massively under acheived this season. Is GS the solution or the problem the jury is out.
We’ve always done better as underdogs. Always. Do you not remember it took five years to get out of the conference. It took Sunderland four years to get out of league one. We’re on the right path. We’ve had a step back after 20 years of steps forward.
They had enough to spend three million on a past it will grigg (back when that was a lot for league one) And also were able to attract players that we couldn’t. That was my point, really.
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