lowandhard wrote:Perhaps it’s me but I’m not getting all this lack of ambition.
1) The point of playing is to win, at the highest level that you can achieve.
2) you can’t decide to be promoted when you’re ready - whenever that would be.
Taking those together then you must always be ready to go for it. After all , as Stan has pointed out relegation from L2 is far worse than from L1. A supporters direct young woman I was chatting to at one meeting informed me that the average wage bill in L1 is £3.5 million as opposed to about £1.5 million in L2 and therein lies the rub. Perhaps those figures are a bit different now , I don’t know, but what it does show is that there’s a need to be ambitious as to be financially successful as well as on the playing front so we must improve income streams. As has been pointed out elsewhere though there are teams that successfully buck the trend like Accrington Stanley.
Although I don’t support the following particular team, it seems to me we could do with a bit of “ per ardua ad astra “ at this club amongst the supporters not just the players who I’m sure go out every game to win , not to settle for L2 “safety” - if there is such a thing one step from oblivion.
I don't think there is any lack of ambition amongst fans but I'll talk about myself. I want to win every throw in, the choice of ends and humiliate the opposition at every turn. I want County to win every single time the whistle blows. But, and here is the but, I don't want us to chase a promotion by jeopardising the very existence of the club, now that could be in the form of a short-term throwing finite money at 'it' in the hope that it 'delivers',or by making decisions that could potentially destabilise the club because some other person is thought to be able to 'deliver'.
Yes we need to develop the financial streams - we haven't got them, we are not there - yet. When we do we can progress.
If it was a gilt edged guaranteed that we would be forever successful, we would never trade insolvent, never go out of business, never drop to the lowest tiers of non league - then I would be all in. But, it's not like that is it and so and until it is I will always look at the upside of a decision and the downside of a decision and for me the risk at present doesn't justify the reward (the risk is oblivion). Imo we are not ready as the club is set up today to chase a promotion.