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Excellence has become the new normal.

Casperimp

Casperimp

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In light of another excellent AGM/Fans Forum last night and the good news announcements it made me think.

Over the course of the last 5 years we have constantly been wowed and amazed at the steps we have taken as a club. With excellent signings on and off the pitch to the way the club interacts and engages with us fans, so let's think about how others see our club and is it time to readjust our natural thinking.

We as fans are emotionally engaged with Lincoln City because it's our passion and as much as players and managers are passionate because they are competitive people unless someone stays at a club a very long time or grows up being a supporter of the club they don't feel as we do.

We have been amazed and relieved that MA has signed a new contract and amazed that highly rated Jorge Grant has extended his stay but let's think about why should we be? We aren't little Lincoln City anymore bobbing around in the lower echelons of the EFL with the occasional good season as has been the case over the last 50 or 60 years or so. We are now a progressive well run club that makes intelligent and considered decisions for the betterment of the club with healthy and growing fan base.

Our club is changing and has changed people and top professionals want to be here now and getting a contract with Lincoln City is good for your career. Yes some fans of other clubs who live in the past still see us as little Lincoln City but the reality is the people that matter don't.

We aren't little Lincoln City anymore in a provincial backwater we are upwardly mobile progressive Lincoln City and who knows where the ceiling is!
 
Casperimp said:
In light of another excellent AGM/Fans Forum last night and the good news announcements it made me think.

Over the course of the last 5 years we have constantly been wowed and amazed at the steps we have taken as a club. With excellent signings on and off the pitch to the way the club interacts and engages with us fans, so let's think about how others see our club and is it time to readjust our natural thinking.

We as fans are emotionally engaged with Lincoln City because it's our passion and as much as players and managers are passionate because they are competitive people unless someone stays at a club a very long time or grows up being a supporter of the club they don't feel as we do.

We have been amazed and relieved that MA has signed a new contract and amazed that highly rated Jorge Grant has extended his stay but let's think about why should we be? We aren't little Lincoln City anymore bobbing around in the lower echelons of the EFL with the occasional good season as has been the case over the last 50 or 60 years or so. We are now a progressive well run club that makes intelligent and considered decisions for the betterment of the club with healthy and growing fan base.

Our club is changing and has changed people and top professionals want to be here now and getting a contract with Lincoln City is good for your career. Yes some fans of other clubs who live in the past still see us as little Lincoln City but the reality is the people that matter don't.

We aren't little Lincoln City anymore in a provincial backwater we are upwardly mobile progressive Lincoln City and who knows where the ceiling is!
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Very well put .Totally right we are not a small club avg 8500 at home games, some clubs can only dream
 
The opposite can be said of the so-called BIG clubs, that have not had the right owners or management teams. The likes of Ipswich (whom I never thought big anyway, but their deluded fans do), Portsmouth, Sunderland, Charlton. Who have all been mismanaged and have gone the opposite way to us. Although Sunderland seem at long last to have found itself a bit of stability and a saviour in a 23 year old owner.
It will be interesting to see if Wrexham, will start an upward spiral, now they have Deadpool as a joint owner, or if it will just be a plaything for him.
Clubs like ours are like gold dust, for the right ownership, they can be moulded and built up, have a history happen that is current and evolving, which is great for us fans, that remember the dark days, and who STILL can't believe that it is the same club we started supporting all those years ago.
I can foresee, a few more "traditionally mediocre" sides having some success, as they have far more potential to grow and develop, than the other so-called BIG clubs.
 
Casperimp said:
In light of another excellent AGM/Fans Forum last night and the good news announcements it made me think.

Over the course of the last 5 years we have constantly been wowed and amazed at the steps we have taken as a club. With excellent signings on and off the pitch to the way the club interacts and engages with us fans, so let's think about how others see our club and is it time to readjust our natural thinking.

We as fans are emotionally engaged with Lincoln City because it's our passion and as much as players and managers are passionate because they are competitive people unless someone stays at a club a very long time or grows up being a supporter of the club they don't feel as we do.

We have been amazed and relieved that MA has signed a new contract and amazed that highly rated Jorge Grant has extended his stay but let's think about why should we be? We aren't little Lincoln City anymore bobbing around in the lower echelons of the EFL with the occasional good season as has been the case over the last 50 or 60 years or so. We are now a progressive well run club that makes intelligent and considered decisions for the betterment of the club with healthy and growing fan base.

Our club is changing and has changed people and top professionals want to be here now and getting a contract with Lincoln City is good for your career. Yes some fans of other clubs who live in the past still see us as little Lincoln City but the reality is the people that matter don't.

We aren't little Lincoln City anymore in a provincial backwater we are upwardly mobile progressive Lincoln City and who knows where the ceiling is!
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You are correct in what you say but it doesn't take much for the status quo to change and without the continued hard work and commitment of the people responsible for making this happen, it can all derail rather quickly.

For that reason and the pains carried historically, I will never, ever for a moment take for granted where we currently sit both on and off the field of play.
 
hulloutpost said:
You are correct in what you say but it doesn't take much for the status quo to change and without the continued hard work and commitment of the people responsible for making this happen, it can all derail rather quickly.

For that reason and the pains carried historically, I will never, ever for a moment take for granted where we currently sit both on and off the field of play.
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Absolutely 100% agree 👏👏
 
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