Lokeren After the loss against Zulte Waregem, Saturday looks to be a degradation gradually becomes inevitable for Sporting Lokeren. Despite the malaise think the fans not the club of their heart to turn their back. “Also, when Sporting down to 1B, we will continue to post”, it sounds.
It was the match of the truth for Sporting Lokeren Saturday night against Zulte Waregem: a direct competitor in the degradatiestrijd. Sporting lost the all-or-none-match with a clear 0-3 digits. To make matters worse, won also the other competitors in the cellar of the standings.
And so it seems over and out for the Wase football team that will probably go for 1B drops with only seven matches to go in the regular season and a backlog of eight points on first pursuer Waasland-Beveren. The fans of the club, sitting in sackcloth and ashes, but relegation or not, they continue to be Sporting true.
“The future of our great club is at stake and that hurts. Several supporters with tears in their eyes, others extremely quiet, but we will be there, for the next season”, sounds finished and clear on the Facebook page of sfeergroepering Authentics Lokeren.
“There is a kind of resignation among the fans about the fate that’s ahead. We must be realistic: it is difficult, if not impossible for this situation to reverse,” says Rob Of Behind of disabled supporters group Sportingzonen. “Nevertheless, I am convinced that the hard core of supporters the club will continue to follow in 1B. The upcoming season will also be crucial for the future of the club, because the first season you can still count on the tv-apply from first class.”
supportersfederatie Front282 sounds the same sound. “Supporter you in good and bad times. So we remain behind our club. Mathematically, it is a salvation not yet excluded, but we also realize that it will be difficult,” says Elly Saey Van Peteghem, secretary of Front282. The Lokerse supportersfederatie think already the future. “We are a consultation started with all disabled supporters group for the future operation. Supportersparticipatie in the policy of the club is high on the agenda. There are good examples within the country and abroad. So are the supporters of KV Mechelen, for example, represented in the governance of their club. Our survey is still too early to make concrete statements, but we want different slopes view,” said Saey Van Peteghem.
