It has got me wondering.
The chances are we are going down.

Now if we go down fighting to the very end and playing really well.
Will that be a good thing?

All it will show is we have a great coach. It will also show we have very good players.
Now this is where, i think it will be a real problem.

Other teams, i am sure will come in and offer our coach and players the chance to play for another team.

So we could start next season, with a new coach and a few of our better players not at the club.

we may well stay up then it won't be a problem.

Good point Jim

The flip side of this would be we get tonked every game from now until the end of the season and fans decide to stay away.

I think we should battle bravely against relegation myself and us fans give the players as much support as possible. Hopefully the players will appreciate the support we give them and stay with us.

I believe we have to give every game our all for the following reasons:
It will show we can cope at this level
The effort will be clear for everyone to see and show we are not a bunch of surrender monkeys
We will attract sponsors
We will attract more fans
We will have potential to attract more players
We will enhance the clubs reputation

It's up to the BOD to sell the vision to the coach and players. If we go down and keep the squad together they will be on regular winning pay. If we regain promotion a couple of astute signings would see us mid table. If we loose players than so be it, it's happened before and I'm sure it will happen again.

The more I think about it the more I believe that this season is vital for our clubs development regardless of whether we stay up. It shows us exactly what we have to do to compete.
I will watch whatever division we are in, and the quality at this level is so much better however, I don't like defeatism whatever its colour.

no-brainer, this!!!
Of course we've got to keep playing right to the end! Relegation isn't a certainty, in fact the way we've been playing it's possible we'll pull off the escape of the year, but even if it were, we still have to try.
If barry can keep the squad together there's a good chance we'd come straight back up, and the crowds aren't going to come and watch a side that aren't trying; and let's face it, all clubs could do witha a bigger gate.
Who would you rather watch, a team of battlers with the crowd behind them all the way, or a group of blokes who don't really care, playing in front of ever-dwindling support in a ground with all the atmosphere of a public library?

I certainly have no intention of sounding patronising, but...

A hard fought relegation battle can be just as exciting to watch as a promotion/championship race. If fans are entertained and the situation remains in doubt, interest in the club and its fate remains, crowds numbers stay up (or increase!!) and should you not manage it, you know how us Brits love a plucky loser!

Stick in there, smaller squads this year mean injuries can play a massive part in the final standings, get some luck and it may be Dews, Haven and Batley that have to worry.

Good Luck from Barrow

What Cougar fan in their right mind would think like this. I suppose it has brought us positive minded folk out of the woodwork though

Well said Ave Bulls won, just hope GW is never stood with me if ever theres any trouble he would surrender



Another thing is the fact we are closing in on the teams below and we have real chance of actually staying up.

As Mick W says its a no brainer, how can anyone let alone an alleged cougarfan suggest we give up trying to play well in order to keep the coach and players its called PRIDE, you have surpassed yourself this time Jim.

Whats ironic is he is on a fundraising comittee which clearly has to be commended but how does this fit with the suggestion of capitulation

Re: Is playing well a good thing.

What were you drinking when you thought it would be a good idea to ask this question?




Consider the long term implications of the alternative and then realise how daft a question it was.

To be honest I think it was a question posed to cunjure up a bit of debate, not necessarily an opinion.

I did something similar when I put a captaincy thread on after the Batley game.

The thing is you can see the point of the first post, debate.

To many people cant. To many people read into it, what they want to read into it.

At no point did i say anything about how the team should go on to lose a game by not playing to there best. Yet once again certain people are implying that i did.

Would any one like to show me where i said we should lose games?

I see GP is having ago at my role on the fund raising committee, because of my first post. GP try reading what is written, rather than once again twisting it to suit your agenda.

I see GP is having ago at my role on the fund raising committee, because of my first post. GP try reading what is written, rather than once again twisting it to suit your agenda.

Jim you have misread or misinterpreted my comment re fundraising as I think its good that anyone is on the commitee and actually say so.

The majority of replies to your original post feel it was intimated we stop trying, are you really saying we are all wrong or you backtracking.

As for agenda when anyone whether it be yourself or not makes a valid point I say so, on the other hand if a post is stupid I like others wiil rightly say so. Strange you only refer to my name



To avoid this quite simply think before posting to avoid criticism as on this occasion you seem to have misjudged things.

You asked a question [i"Is playing well a good thing"[/i

Expressed an opinion [i"Now this is where, i think it will be a real problem"[/i

Then got a series of reasoned answers - in my book thats debate. The fact that you don't like the answers then accuse people of misunderstanding you (reading what they want to see) perhaps indicates that your original post was poorly constructed. I've read the original post again, with several different spectacles on, and still believe the implication is that if we want to keep our coach and players we should play badly. You may not have intended it, but it's what comes across, and that so many have picked up on it perhaps illustrates my point.

I'm not arguing of course, just entering into the debate

To be honest I think this is just one of a few scenarios that could happen.

We could defy the odds and stay up but a club like Barrow could steam in with a wheelbarrow full of cash and cherry-pick our best players like what happened to Oldham.

It's all hypothetical at the moment, we've got to cross the bridges when we come to them.

I always have to wonder, how people can read this site with only one eye

You seem to cope

I thought you were saying we ought to throw it...
...not much point turning up and shouting ourselves ho if that were the case.
Luckily, I can't see the likes of Jermaine, Andy Schickell, Gav etc thinking that way!