I've just realised

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  1. AthersleyRed

    AthersleyRed Well-Known Member

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    Barnsley have competed in the 2nd tier more than any club... and we've never won the flippin thing! Talk about the Tottenham of Division 2
     
    AthersleyRed, Jul 1, 2023
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    We did come second, though, bud.

    Which I find is often a good thing.
     
    Lone Striker, Jul 1, 2023
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    And Spurs have won Division 1.
     
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    All the best come last
     
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    Aye we did, but 70-80 attempts? You'd think we'd have got the title a couple of times!
     
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    If we'd been more successful at winning it then we probably wouldn't hold the record for being in it.
     
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    Never wanted to go up.
     
    Sestren, Jul 2, 2023
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    Or at least more than one promotion to the top flight.
     
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    The stat is both a testament to our resilience and an indication of our limitations.
    Our average position over those years in the second tier is bottom third. We start virtually every season at that level heavily underfunded compared to most of the division and have to compete with one hand behind our backs.
    The surprise is not really that we haven't been promoted more but that we haven't been relegated more.
     
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    But for fraud, we’d have been promoted in 1919.

    Who knows what could have happened after that.
     
    Lone Striker, Jul 2, 2023
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    Spent above our means and gone bust?
    Who knows?
    We really, really need to get over this....
     
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