I'll chip in, I can see parallels, us in L2 (forever) , you in L1, not much difference.
You are now entering "rut" territory, smaller clubs raise their game at your stadium but you can't respond, because you've cut your costs, the "pull" of the name, ground and fan base is there, but maybe not the wages, so you get second best. The fans can't respond because they are too jazzed off and still trying to come to terms with how the club has ended up where it is, they turn up, but the fire has gone out. This transmits to the players who dare not put a foot wrong, so they don't dare put a foot anywhere.
Then the blame starts, when the obvious, board and players have been hung drawn an quartered then you start to move onto really bizarre stuff, normal folk go crackers, you grasp at anything, the managers wearing a suit when he should be wearing a training kit, or, vice versa. The away kit is too dull, the players can't see each other, too negative, too positive, don't "go for it" enough, "go for it" too much, hoof it, don't hoof it enough and so it goes.......
Each year you get worse and finish lower than the season before, for over a decade! Rochdale wipe the floor with you, at home, you are grateful they only scored 3 not 7. Accrington's left back is taking the piss playing "keepy up" below, you look at the scoreboard and they are winning 0-3, it seems unreal and you think, this is it, things can't get possibly get any worse, but they do, a lot worse.
You have all this to look forward to.
