A feeling of them riding their luck, compounded by them never having come as close to the third tier since then.
You might say we had some luck last season, but we've had plenty of bad luck. For every great escape 00-01, and 05-06, there is an 01-02, 10-11, 12-13.
They just seem a sneakily lucky club. In a similar way that Swindon, Rotherham, Bournemouth have been repeat offenders when it comes to financial woes but have always seemed to fluke it to land on their feet. Or the way the likes of us and Hartlepool,Tranmere have faced non-League football but other perennial re-election candidates like Crewe, Rochdale, Gillingham have avoided that fate.