"This is more than just momentum"

[mushRTID]

Grants words.

What an unbelievable job he is doing. Never felt so excited for the next game as I do at the moment.

We have a squad with multiple saleable assets now.

The team filled with genuine top lads and the connection with fans at an all time high.

An exciting trip to Spurs coming and joint top of the league.

Some of the best football I can remember, especially Boro, Hudds and Saturday.

I think back to the atmosphere at some of those home games under Schofield and it is quite unbelievable where we are now.

Fully acknowledge the budgets they both had, but good grief did we get the right man at the right time.

This is more than just momentum guys, enjoy it while it lasts!

[graingrover]

The best communications are from current fans to potential fans ..let’s tell ‘em !

[adamtherover]

the "slightly annoying"  thing as well is that we were far the better side v huddersfield and wycombe, so potentially could have stats reading played 10, won 10!!! wonder how many pre season predictions having us down as relegation candidates are liking their humble pie right now :-)

[adamtherover]

The team filled with genuine top lads and the connection with fans at an all time high.

For me, making Bails team vice captain, then captain is a stroke of genius, especially when there were older more senior lads in the camp. You can tell a mile of that hes every ones best mate, not just team mates, and has helped to create the bond that this group so obviously has. The geordie mafia is part of the spine of this team, long may it continue!!!!

[Alan Southstand]

That Huddersfield first half will stay with me for a long time. We were absolutely on fire but we just couldn’t get that all important goal.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Memories tend to fade somewhat over time when I try to think back to previous good times. I think the excitement and connections were just as palpable under Penney when we rose from the Conference to League One. The players were approachable and gave their time back then, and this feels similar but the club as a whole is a much bigger, slicker operation than it was back then. During the SO'D era, whilst we were treated to fantastic football and reached heights we thought were just fantasy, I just felt it became a  bit more impersonal and perhaps there weren't as strong a connections with the players? Maybe just me.

I just couldn't imagine Stock, Wellens, Mills, Sully etc etc getting legless doing a pub crawl around town WITH the fans.

It does feel our current crop are playing for us rather than themselves.

[tingleyrover]

I can’t remember a time recently when we’ve had it so good. It makes those nights of dross, and getting hammered by Stockport in League 2 a bit more bearable in the memory!

Grant could be our Bill Shankley or Alex Ferguson if he stays long enough.

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

Good points dbr and I wonder if it's a McCann thing.  I felt in his previous season here again something similar.  That Charlton defeat was one of the best and proudest you could be as a football fan, that team left nothing on the pitch and cruelly lost that tie.

This team has just continued from last season. When managers talk about big characters, Bailey, Sharp, Sterry are exactly that and it spreads to their teammates too.

Overall we just feel like we've got that sticking two fingers up to bigger clubs attitude back aswell and that we are more than earning our right to be at this level.

[karldew]

Memories tend to fade somewhat over time when I try to think back to previous good times. I think the excitement and connections were just as palpable under Penney when we rose from the Conference to League One. The players were approachable and gave their time back then, and this feels similar but the club as a whole is a much bigger, slicker operation than it was back then. During the SO'D era, whilst we were treated to fantastic football and reached heights we thought were just fantasy, I just felt it became a  bit more impersonal and perhaps there weren't as strong a connections with the players? Maybe just me.

I just couldn't imagine Stock, Wellens, Mills, Sully etc etc getting legless doing a pub crawl around town WITH the fans.

It does feel our current crop are playing for us rather than themselves.

It happened with that team, I remember being in walkabout and JOC saying don’t mention the goal from the half way line to Sullivan also young Nelly sucking a random birds tit hahaha

[Herbert Anchovy]

Memories tend to fade somewhat over time when I try to think back to previous good times. I think the excitement and connections were just as palpable under Penney when we rose from the Conference to League One. The players were approachable and gave their time back then, and this feels similar but the club as a whole is a much bigger, slicker operation than it was back then. During the SO'D era, whilst we were treated to fantastic football and reached heights we thought were just fantasy, I just felt it became a  bit more impersonal and perhaps there weren't as strong a connections with the players? Maybe just me.

I just couldn't imagine Stock, Wellens, Mills, Sully etc etc getting legless doing a pub crawl around town WITH the fans.

It does feel our current crop are playing for us rather than themselves.

Excellent post DBR. The films of the players out on the town after the promotion did remind me a little of Saturday nights in Donny in the early 80’s when you’d regularly see players like young Snod, Duggie, Daryl Pugh, Dickie Dawson and Glen Humphries having a hectic evening out at Rotters!

[Arsenal Of The North]

I wonder if the current players now believe they can push for promotion, like the OP says this is more than momentum. It feels like the Mansfield moment already where we actually think…. Hold on we can do this! I get that vibe from the players at the minute