I never said anything about wanting anything, or being excited or otherwise, or what should or should not happen. I merely commented that the players he listed would make a pretty strong team at U21 level, that's all. And I still think that comment is pretty accurate.
Always was the way. Pat Saward's 1972 promotion winning team played some beautiful football, but got muscled out of it and generally mauled in the second division and came straight back down. Always felt that if by some strange quirk they'd been promoted straight through to the first division...