Bigluke
Active Member
A little impish imp, has been winding our lads up on our little forum this week (least ways I think it was a wind up, if he wasn't he really needs to get a life) about, in this case Lincoln being a much bigger club than Dover and therefore if Miller left to join them, it would be an upward move and not a sideways one as most whites fans would argue.
Dover fans readily conceded Lincoln are a bigger team, and despite coming out with more stats than John Curtice on speed, did so before he wore out google in doing so. There counter argument, and one I fully subscribe to is, who the shit gives a toss?
It means Jack shit, what a club has done previously, what they've won who used to play for them, we are all in the National league so for fucks sake give it a rest. If Miller did move, and am not saying he will or should, it would most certainly be a sideways move as he would be travelling North simply to play for another team in the same league. Whereas if he waits to the Summer, he will almost certainly walk into the FL FOC, and for that very reason, that would be an upward move and not a sideways one.
The same sort of rhetoric is used by supporters of other teams in the league who because of some exalted self worth feel it is either beneath them or a footballing disgrace to lose, or even drop points to the Guiselys, Dovers, Braintrees and Nth Ferribys of this world. Well let me tell you gents it isn't. History counts for fuck all, and judging by the past few years neither does having more money, so give us all some peace and get over it, stop droning on about how big you are....down here you're no better than any other
You're in this league for a reason, and for most you will stay in this league for a good few years yet. "How have we lost to them" will become an ever more frequent moan, so get used to it. You may have bigger crowds, you may sell more season tickets, have bigger travelling support and a more splendid ground, but again it does not make any more than an equal member of this league, and nor, unless you win promotion, does it make you better, and if you want proof of that look at the league tables over the past few years....................you're still here with the rest of us minions.
But it doesn't stop at Lincoln, deary me no, replace them, with Wrexham,. Tranmere, (Aldershot, Torquay and now York who at least aren't quite so up their own arses in this respect) and perhaps add, depending on how you define such "we're bigger than you" nonsense FGR and even Eastleigh and that based purely on their obscene spending power who few in Div 1, if any, can match, but then worse, their supporters will tell you that they're not buying success at all, it's all commercially viable and all worked out on a prudent business plan (failing to mention it's probably one written by Phillip Green)
We may be smaller by definition, but make no mistake we are the equal of most. Newcastle is a bigger club than Burnley, Portsmouth bigger than Bournemouth, but who is in the premiership?
Not so big now then.Give us some credit, and stop with this shit of how big you are, do you never notice it's why so many neutrals take delight in your continuing demise and numerous defeats. Formally being in the FL does not mean you will be back their shortly does it, and be warned you are likely to be with us canon fodder for a good few years yet
Rant over, and back to the ironing
Dover fans readily conceded Lincoln are a bigger team, and despite coming out with more stats than John Curtice on speed, did so before he wore out google in doing so. There counter argument, and one I fully subscribe to is, who the shit gives a toss?
It means Jack shit, what a club has done previously, what they've won who used to play for them, we are all in the National league so for fucks sake give it a rest. If Miller did move, and am not saying he will or should, it would most certainly be a sideways move as he would be travelling North simply to play for another team in the same league. Whereas if he waits to the Summer, he will almost certainly walk into the FL FOC, and for that very reason, that would be an upward move and not a sideways one.
The same sort of rhetoric is used by supporters of other teams in the league who because of some exalted self worth feel it is either beneath them or a footballing disgrace to lose, or even drop points to the Guiselys, Dovers, Braintrees and Nth Ferribys of this world. Well let me tell you gents it isn't. History counts for fuck all, and judging by the past few years neither does having more money, so give us all some peace and get over it, stop droning on about how big you are....down here you're no better than any other
You're in this league for a reason, and for most you will stay in this league for a good few years yet. "How have we lost to them" will become an ever more frequent moan, so get used to it. You may have bigger crowds, you may sell more season tickets, have bigger travelling support and a more splendid ground, but again it does not make any more than an equal member of this league, and nor, unless you win promotion, does it make you better, and if you want proof of that look at the league tables over the past few years....................you're still here with the rest of us minions.
But it doesn't stop at Lincoln, deary me no, replace them, with Wrexham,. Tranmere, (Aldershot, Torquay and now York who at least aren't quite so up their own arses in this respect) and perhaps add, depending on how you define such "we're bigger than you" nonsense FGR and even Eastleigh and that based purely on their obscene spending power who few in Div 1, if any, can match, but then worse, their supporters will tell you that they're not buying success at all, it's all commercially viable and all worked out on a prudent business plan (failing to mention it's probably one written by Phillip Green)
We may be smaller by definition, but make no mistake we are the equal of most. Newcastle is a bigger club than Burnley, Portsmouth bigger than Bournemouth, but who is in the premiership?
Not so big now then.Give us some credit, and stop with this shit of how big you are, do you never notice it's why so many neutrals take delight in your continuing demise and numerous defeats. Formally being in the FL does not mean you will be back their shortly does it, and be warned you are likely to be with us canon fodder for a good few years yet
Rant over, and back to the ironing
