[maccawozzagod]

so what if we go down?

what does it mean to everyone if we go down? Are we supporting the Stanley just cos they happen to have won a few titles in the last six or seven years? If that is the reason then the FES will be a happier place next season IF we go down. Too many doomers knocking around and you can all go to hell. I dont remember most of you when there was 20 of us in a 56 crowd at Bootle in the eighties, or get our arses kicked annually at Holker St, or what about taking over every portacabin clubhouse we ever went to. I'll still be watching Stanley when the ladies team are in a higher league, or when the players are supporting the Ultras team cos they are better. I'll still be the only Stanley fan at my works and I'll still be proud to tell everybody who I watch.

IF we go down, we will have made a few bob from increased fourfold sponsorship sold out for the season, we will have made the 1/4 million from Nationwide TV rights, we will have the parachute payments and we will have been there and lived the dream that for 44 years was not even thinkable of.

The club will learn from the mistakes, use the money wisely (would we have got 200k for Roberts or 150k for Craney as a non-league side? no) and will come back better and stronger for it. Coley and Eric will still be the men for me because they enabled us to live the dream if only for a few months. The lesson to be learned is that we need the staff on and off the pitch to survive. If you trim your christmas tree too much there will be nowhere to hang the tinsel.

Bring on 2007, and if it is half as eventful as 2006 then I will be even prouder to call myself a Stanleyite.