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[1ccfc]

Since being born in the late 70's the best league position I've experienced is 7th in the 1988/89 season. Does any other club have a worse record than this? We are all definitely born sky blue and not through choice

 

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[Hobo]

I came across a league table not so long ago which just recorded results regardless of what league you were in at any given time. We were 74 or something similar.

 

[ajsccfc]

Given the choice, I'd take our inability to finish in a top six for half a century over the large amount of teams who've never seen the top division.

 

[skybluesam66]

i disagree - wherever you are you need to be a winner - we have not been close in a long long time - and hence the low crowds now

statistically not finishing in the top 6 of any division for 43 years has odds of over a million to 1 - so i guess there is no other team in world football with such a bad record

 

[Sick Boy]

Given the choice, I'd take our inability to finish in a top six for half a century over the large amount of teams who've never seen the top division.

This.

The victims on here would have you believe that we have spent our entire history stuck in League 1 & League 2. There are plenty of clubs in the football league who would swap our last 50 years with theirs on the spot.

 

[Sick Boy]

i disagree - wherever you are you need to be a winner - we have not been close in a long long time - and hence the low crowds now

statistically not finishing in the top 6 of any division for 43 years has odds of over a million to 1 - so i guess there is no other team in world football with such a bad record

So you would happily swap our years in the top flight for a couple of promotions from League 2?

 

[torchomatic]

Either support or don't. Can't see what the obsession is with finishing positions, to be honest. Yeah, we all want success, but there ain't no guarantee.

 

[Sick Boy]

Either support or don't. Can't see what the obsession is with finishing positions, to be honest. Yeah, we all want success, but there ain't no guarantee.

There has always been those looking for any excuse to jump ship. Sometimes I wish that the council lot would form their own club and we can take the club forward without them.

 

[The Lurker]

Given the choice, I'd take our inability to finish in a top six for half a century over the large amount of teams who've never seen the top division.

But there is a generation of fans who never seen us in the top flight. Anyone under 20. Scary stat

 

[The Lurker]

There has always been those looking for any excuse to jump ship. Sometimes I wish that the council lot would form their own club and we can take the club forward without them.

Since we got relegated in 2001 I guess every team in the football league have experienced either a play off, promotion, Wembley day out. We have had nothing.

 

[rupert_bear]

There has always been those looking for any excuse to jump ship. Sometimes I wish that the council lot would form their own club and we can take the club forward without them.

And me, a new club to reform, play at the Ricoh, having got shut of Sepalla, Fisher and friends and moving forward, onwards and upwards. You can carry on watching the sisu version at Sowe Common.

 

[PVA]

We are the only team in the entire football league not to have finished in the top 6 of any division for the last 48ish years.

How depressing.

 

[Sick Boy]

And me, a new club to reform, play at the Ricoh, having got shut of Sepalla, Fisher and friends and moving forward, onwards and upwards. You can carry on watching the sisu version at Sowe Common.

Good luck with funding that at the bottom of the football pyramid. Anyway, the real CCFC would still be playing at the Ricoh. Maybe you could ground share with Coventry United with Andy Thorn as manager and Dongo as his assistant.

If we ever managed to fluke promotion you'd soon all come rushing back anyway.

 

[torchomatic]

Totally agree, but "that's the way it is, baby".

Since we got relegated in 2001 I guess every team in the football league have experienced either a play off, promotion, Wembley day out. We have had nothing.

 

[malkitccfc]

We've finished 8th in the championship in my lifetime. I will die a happy man

 

[Hobo]

Hartlepool, Exeter and Halifax all seemed pretty grim teams to follow when I was growing up....perhaps the toughest team to follow though was Darlington, alas the ambition of a new stadium finally killed them off.

 

[skybluelee]

Since being born in the late 70's the best league position I've experienced is 7th in the 1988/89 season. Does any other club have a worse record than this? We are all definitely born sky blue and not through choice

We are infamously the only club in the entire football league that have not had a top 6 finish in the last 44 years. Shocking really.

 

[ccfcway]

So you would happily swap our years in the top flight for a couple of promotions from League 2?

I wouldnt know how to answer that until it happened.

I have a Tamworth fan friend, who, when they got promoted to the conference a few years ago couldnt come down off the ceiling for weeks, he was so happy.

I only remember feeling like that about the cup win in 87.

 

[torchomatic]

Like the Ricoh has for us?

alas the ambition of a new stadium finally killed them off.

 

[skybluelee]

Given the choice, I'd take our inability to finish in a top six for half a century over the large amount of teams who've never seen the top division.

I wouldn't. For me, the best thing about being a football fan is experiencing the buzz of 3 points on matchday. Give me City beating Yeovil over losing to Arsenal any day of the week.

In the 31 years I've supported the club in only 6 seasons did we end up having won more games than we lost. That is just fucking miserable.

 

[dadgad]

We cannot agree on anything except that we share some allegiance to a miserable football club that fills us with false hope.

A Phoenix club would only work IMHO if the old one was dead.

The last ten years has killed it for many but while it remains on life support there's always that glimmer of hope.

It is that hope which keeps us curious, going to the odd match, posting on forums, etc.

There are still those who want to apportion blame. That is immaterial - fans, supporters and followers are powerless anyway - we just share some forlorn hope that one day it'll come good for reasons that will also be unquantifiable.

 

[torchomatic]

Yes, it is miserable, but what's the alternative? Er.....there isn't one.

In my 40+ years I've been lucky enough to have been to Wembley to see us lift the cup, seen some fantastic games over the years, etc. OK, the last decade has been particularly difficult, but personally that's the way football is. Even Man City had their bad times. Man Utd too, but as I asked earlier, what is the alternative. It's not like switching from Tesco to Lidl, is it?

As I keep saying, there's no guarantees, but I do feel for younger fans who've not experienced any of those magnificent highs.

I wouldn't. For me, the best thing about being a football fan is experiencing the buzz of 3 points on matchday. Give me City beating Yeovil over losing to Arsenal any day of the week.

In the 31 years I've supported the club in only 6 seasons did we end up having won more games than we lost. That is just fucking miserable.

 

[Cheshire Sky Blue]

This.

The victims on here would have you believe that we have spent our entire history stuck in League 1 & League 2. There are plenty of clubs in the football league who would swap our last 50 years with theirs on the spot.

And 100% would refuse to have the last seven years of shit we have had. On that basis, no one would want to be just like CCFC.

 

[stupot07]

We are the only team in the entire football league not to have finished in the top 6 of any division for the last 48ish years.

How depressing.

It is depressing but 34 of those years were in the top flight.


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[skybluelee]

Yes, it is miserable, but what's the alternative? Er.....there isn't one.

In my 40+ years I've been lucky enough to have been to Wembley to see us lift the cup, seen some fantastic games over the years, etc. OK, the last decade has been particularly difficult, but personally that's the way football is. Even Man City had their bad times. Man Utd too, but as I asked earlier, what is the alternative. It's not like switching from Tesco to Lidl, is it?

As I keep saying, there's no guarantees, but I do feel for younger fans who've not experienced any of those magnificent highs.

I agree there isn't one. Once a supporter, always a supporter.

 

[Hobo]

Like the Ricoh has for us?

We ain't dead yet!

 

[torchomatic]

Just gasping for breath and pressing the "nurse! nurse!" button.

We ain't dead yet!

 

[Evo1883]

Given the choice, I'd take our inability to finish in a top six for half a century over the large amount of teams who've never seen the top division.

agreed , i think teams like stoke city and hull would happily take mid table premiership for the next 34 years than play at a lower level

 

[Hobo]

Just gasping for breath and pressing the "nurse! nurse!" button.

The trouble is Joy Seppala is the nurse.