The Cowley effect.

As a writer, you sometimes sit at the keyboard with barely a thought in your head but once you get going the words seem to flow and next thing you know you’re having to use those precis skills you learned at school to cut it down a bit. Other times some inspiration comes from elsewhere.

I was reading the Echo website and an interview with Bob Dorrian and with no match this weekend that seemed as good a place as any to expand on Bob’s words with a fans eye view of Impdom. Then came the bid for Alex Woodyard and that took precedence. On further reflection though, given my thoughts on the Dorrian interview maybe the two are intertwined.

We all hoped and prayed that the Luton bid would be knocked back. For a start, hopefully, City can resist £120000 to keep one of their best performers at Sincil Bank. As Danny Cowley pointed out. We’re in the business of building here not take the money and run.

Bob Dorrian was once again marvelling at the support the team is now getting as indeed we all are. The gate last Tuesday absolutely blew out of the water all the other attendances and surely the Chelsea gate will be a full house if only because some non-fans will be curious to see what Chelsea’s youngsters have got in their locker.

Are the size of the gates that surprising though? On the face of it yes. On the other hand Lincoln is a growing place, a young city with students bringing down the demographic and the many attractions the city centre has to offer encouraging the younger population in at weekends and in the evenings. Is it any wonder some of them have started to see Lincoln City as part of the entertainment on offer?

More importantly, City always have had a relatively large fanbase but the toll of disappointment after disappointment has reduced the enthusiasm. People these days will not necessarily follow the team through thick and thin, at least not the sort of thin times we’ve had and it was inevitable interest would wane but it was always there.

Now of course the Imps can offer a winning side, decent facilities, new initiatives, charismatic managers and footballers capable of stringing a sentence together. Supporters have thrown themselves behind the journey and yes, maybe jumped on the bandwagon but once on they’re enjoying the ride.

Long may that continue.