Currently sat 4th in the table, having played most of the big-hitters at least once.
We have just added a very capable defender to our ranks.
With Pritch continuing to look to improve a squad that has already spent the majority of the season sat in the play off places, are we now re-adjusting our expectations towards real push at consecutive promotions?
Any other season we would have been singing E I E I E I O, but not this year?
I think we are good enough for a real promotion push now. We should stop down-playing our chances, and start to put a swagger in our football.
I must agree with Robbo_ we should be getting excited about promotion, everyone keeps going on about getting more people down to Wincham Park and getting higher attendances who is gonna start coming down to watch a football team that is saying it doesn’t think it can go up or is not thinking of promotion when they are sat in 4th place.
You have alway’s got to strive for success otherwise what’s the point? Some club’s are quite happy with mid-table mediocrity but witton’s aim’s have got to be higher than that . The foundation’s are there and we all know that the team and the management wev’e got are good enough. Would we be happy with 12th/13th place every season? Only being able to dream of promotion? Nah, i doubt it. UTA
We should be doing all we can to progress, as long as we are operating within our financial limits. What’s to say that several players won’t leave in the summer and we become mid-table fodder overnight?
Our chance is now, we should be shouting the name of Witton Albion Football Club from the rooftops.
I mostly agree with left pegger, but on one point us losing players and being mid table fodder, I think pritch has the desire and ability with his team to replace players and build again, however I do agree it’s got to be ambition within our means. UTA
We’re in the mix and its great to hear a bit of realistic belief. From what we’ve seen nothing to be worried about. Just need to put a few wins together get on a good run and do what we did last year! Lets have it
There is realistic belief within the club, just don’t expect it to be publically announced from the club, it’s just not how the management team or players operate
Exactly, no need to put pressure on the team but we know the longer we stay up there the more the word will spread.
The weather is crap at the moment and a lot of games are off but come start of March, if we still up there, the crowds could start to push six hundred UTA
Good luck getting a public declaration then! Never got one last year either just comments about glass containers! Mid table being viewed as a disappointment or even a failure shows you how far this club has turned full circle in 5 years. Ambition is there for all to see at our club, but the rare commodity of reality is going hand in hand with it
We have witnessed across the canal for years where being chavy and mouthing of gets you. It was easy for Rushe to claim his ambitions as he just kept spending other peoples money to achieve his ambitions and look what happened.
We are not a chavy, Jeremy Kylie type club. The management quietly get on with the business and this shows class.
They dont need to make statements as if we are still there at start of March it will be obvious to everyone who is interested that with we could get promoted.
The management can carry on in a dignified manner and let the fans and press blow our trumpet.
So if we are ambitious, and if mid-table would be a disappointment, what’s so wrong with admitting that?
What are we all working towards, if not to progress the football club?
We should be getting excited about the team we get to watch every week. As Witton fans the opportunity comes around all too rarely - we should be embracing it whilst it is here, not pouring cold water on it.
I just don’t understand why we can’t openly admit that we are going for the playoffs, we are not like was said above spending money we haven’t got like Rushe, everything is viable at our club so that’s a none argument.
In reference to the come March we will get 600+ I don’t think so in my opinion, people need to be told that Witton are doing well to be honest our coverage is the Guardian and to be fair not many people in Northwich read it.
I get the pressure issue but football is all about pressure and with success you are always gonna be under pressure whether you talk about or not.
But the manager has his methods so I have to respect that, roll on March
[quote=“Robbo_” post=48494]So if we are ambitious, and if mid-table would be a disappointment, what’s so wrong with admitting that?
What are we all working towards, if not to progress the football club?
We should be getting excited about the team we get to watch every week. As Witton fans the opportunity comes around all too rarely - we should be embracing it whilst it is here, not pouring cold water on it.
The statement re Vics is completely irrelevant.[/quote]
Number one priority at start of season was to cement our place in this league while living within our means.
So far we have surpassed our expectations which is brilliant, hopefully it will continue
We are getting excited, I am not sure who said we were not getting excited
No one is pouring cold water on it, it is simply that the management of the club are working hard in a dignified, professional manner. If we get a few bad results and the management have claimed we are going for promotion, then the pressure will be on big time to make signings to backup the claims. If we are running over budget and have to let a player go then people will say the claims are untrue.
The statement about vics is not irrelevant at all in fact it is more relevant now then ever. We want to attract local business for sposorship and build relationships with the community. People are going to look at what happened to them and want to be convinced that we are not the same. Therefore the class, dignity, professionalism all portray an image of how this club is run.
It does not need saying that we are going for promotion as every club in the leage, you would hope is trying to win every game they play in, so by default you are trying to finish as high in the league as possible - no one is saying dont win tody lads we dont want promotion!
There are some contradictions on here as one minute saying we should shout from the rooftops that we are going for promotion and should show ambition and then saying 600+ crowds not a chance. It is true that we averaged under 500 when we led this league for 7 months straight in 2007/2008 but the situation had changed. There is only one club in the town now and therefore achievable or not we SHOULD be trying to get people in. The management dont need to say we are going for promotion to do that, it is the fans spreading the word. So instead of insisting that the management make bold statemements, every fan should try and drag more people in and spread the word.
