Just for a bit of fun I thought I would engage in some outrageous plagiarism of the above post to show how we have performed in comparison to Stockport, who we have just passed like ships in the night.
100% agree. Our promotion to the Football League was absolutely brilliant, after having lost the previous play off Final, can't beat a day out at Wembley and we have had two.
Everyone is laughing at our return to the National League and rightly so as we have been a shambles on and off the pitch for at least two seasons and a half, but since 2016 our seasons read:
16/17- NL- Won the Play off Final
17/18 - L2 - Stayed up by one point
18/19 - L2 - 5th Lost Play off Semi-Final
19/20 - L2 - 10th COVID season
20/21 - L2 - 6th Lost Play off Semi-Final
21/22 - L2 - Champions
22/23 - L1- Relegated
23/24 - L2- Relegated
I doubt we'll see a return to the Football League for some time, unless we rediscover that we are actually a football club whose main purpose should be to play football and nothing else.
Can see some of our JCL's struggling to come to terms with a double relegation, possibly being in a relegation battle next year, or even hovering around mid table doing nothing exciting. As a club from 10-22 we had so much optimism pumped into our brains, that we could become a sustainable club in the Championship, I don't think that I have ever been so fearful for the future of our club, I don't know if everyone else shares my view, I suspect that some do but unfortunately there are too many still in the cult of Dale.
