Will relegation hurt you?

[From Despair To Where?]

To add some context at Roeselaire,the outstanding catering bill would have paid,Liam Moore's wages for 4½ days.

[Millsy]

Headlines tomorrow:

"Liam Moore's gluttonous four and a half day eating spree identified as main factor behind KSV's demise."

[From Despair To Where?]

He's not injured, he's got food bloat.

Qui a mangé toutes les frites?
qui a mangé toutes les frites?
Espèce de gros bâtard,
Espèce de gros bâtard
Tu as mangé toutes les frites

[Royal_jimmy]

Going to be a painful week. Will only be more excited when fixtures come out. Probably be away to someone like Lincoln first and at home to Portsmouth after that

[Loafer]

Going to be a painful week. Will only be more excited when fixtures come out. Probably be away to someone like Lincoln first and at home to Portsmouth after that

It's just football, not any reason to feel painful

[Sutekh]

Looking forward to the opportunity for there youngsters to break through, if they don't get the opportunity in division 3 then they never will. Mix that youth with some shrewd exciting signings from the lower divisions of ambitious players and, most importantly, get an ambitious manager in with a plan and tactical nous.

AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get a player or two that knows how to DEFEND and are not as slow as a snail stuck in glue with the turning circle of an oil tanker.

Just need to put a buzz about the place in the summer then who knows, a quick return might be on the cards.

[Royal_jimmy]

I think this hurts more than when we were relegated from the Premier League in 2008. Back then we were punching above our weight and had over-performing players. Now our team is full of underachievers and flops, not to say that we're returning to a level we've not been at for almost a generation.

[NathStPaul]

Really don't understand how it can hurt anyone. It is only football.

[Hound]

Really don't understand how it can hurt anyone. It is only football.

The whole supporting a football club thing doesn’t really make sense when you break it down though does it?

For some reason it just means more than it logically should

[NathStPaul]

Really don't understand how it can hurt anyone. It is only football.

The whole supporting a football club thing doesn’t really make sense when you break it down though does it?

For some reason it just means more than it logically should

Yeah I guess everyone is different. Some people might be lonely in life and only really have football to keep them going. If that is the case I would get taking something like relegation to heart, it would be like a bereavement I guess.

I do remember taking the relegation in the Terry Bullivant season really badly but I think that had much more to being young and not having much life experience. Now that I am much older I think I can take a much more relaxed view to it all. That and I think we will be perfectly ok next season has made me take a pretty "meh" attitude to it all.

[South Coast Royal]

Have been through a few.
This one, if it happens, is a bit of a surprise because of how consistently bad we have been especially when players were supposedly fighting for their lives.
It felt as though QPR might save us as their slump was even worse but they have managed to fight enough to survive as have Rotherham and Cardiff.

I'm not sure "hurt" is the right word.
Disappointment, yes, but life is full of disappointments, and the optimism that most fans have means that next season or the one after that or the one after that we might be good again.
One day Rodney we will be millionaires but for the moment we are skint.

[Dirk Gently]

Disappointment and incredulity rather than hurt.

Especially because this relegation is so unnecessary and could have been so easily avoided - it wouldn't even have needed competent financial management and club strategy over the past few years to have avoided it.

Just being slightly less incompetent would have done the trick.

But it's been like watching someone shoot themselves in the foot in slow-motion, and them suddenly being surprised when their foot starts hurting.

[Royal_jimmy]

Disappointment and incredulity rather than hurt.

Especially because this relegation is so unnecessary and could have been so easily avoided - it wouldn't even have needed competent financial management and club strategy over the past few years to have avoided it.

Just being slightly less incompetent would have done the trick.

But it's been like watching someone shoot themselves in the foot in slow-motion, and them suddenly being surprised when their foot starts hurting.

Great analogy.

It's like having a headache because of drinking too much alcohol.

If drinking is the equivalent to us spending, then we've drank so much and now we're feeling the consequences

[Hendo]

WRTTOP: not really. Annoying and disappointing, sure. But the world still keeps turning.

[Snowflake Royal]

Just a relief it's finally almost done. It's been massively on the cards for years now and all we've done by putting it off is stagnate, get deeper in trouble and imbed a culture of failing and losing.

[Royal_jimmy]

This has hurt a lot of our fans badly since hasn't it?

[Pepe the Horseman]

If anything it's made me stronger. Physically and mentally. But mainly physically.

[blythspartan]

Relegation is never easy but I know that one day the following will be true.
Will rise up
Will rise like the day
Will rise up
Will rise unafraid
Will rise up
And will do it a thousand times again
And will rise up
High like the waves
Will rise up
In spite of the ache
Will rise up
And will do it a thousand times again
For you
For you
For you
For you

[Snowflake Royal]

Still fine with relegation. Still a better chance of a more enjoyable season.

Most of this shit would still be happening if we stayed up, we'd just be all but guaranteed of finishing bottom.

The most damaging thing continues to be the dire running of the club by a dreadful owner.

[Royal_jimmy]

Still fine with relegation. Still a better chance of a more enjoyable season.

Most of this shit would still be happening if we stayed up, we'd just be all but guaranteed of finishing bottom.

The most damaging thing continues to be the dire running of the club by a dreadful owner.

I think with the even bigger mess we're in you'll be disappointed. If the owner has lost interest following our relegation then a whole lot more pain is coming our way with a possible spell in league 2. League 2 football really isn't enjoyable, league 1 football is bad enough and you'll see for yourself in a couple of months.