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[TruckerJack]

It doesn’t make sense to me to say that ‘it would be an excellent season considering the disaster for half of it’.

Surely the disastrous bit is equally a part of the season as the better bit?

Excellent would not be a word I’d use to describe this season as a whole. It’s been much the same as the past few seasons. Absolutely dreadful bits and much better bits leading to a pretty average year overall.

I would say that depends if you see it through the scope of solitary seasons or as the first step of a longer plan. As a stand alone season, I agree it’s been pretty average.

As the first step on a journey however it’s the most positive season for a long time. A squad of players in a good development ages with clear asset value with a season of championship exposure under their belts, a young manager who I personally think is an exciting hire, strides made off the field to raise the clubs income and profile.

There is a lot to celebrate this year even though positionally and points wise, it will be similar to what we have seen in recent years, it feels like a much better springboard than the rest which I assume was the aim of year 1 of a project like us. I am looking forward to next season more than I have for a long time.

 

[Londonlisa2001]

Well I mean overall it would be underwhelming but with the context of just truly how bad we were under Sheehan It has to be considered a success to beat last seasons tally.

We were statistically just as bad as Sheffield Wednesday under Sheehan and were comfortably a bottom 3 team in every single metric. I still dont think to this day people truly grasp just how bad we were.

Yeah, I agree with all that.

I remember saying just before he went that I hoped the club realised that relegation was a genuine possibility as we were in free fall.

Getting us out of that was the main task for matos and he’s done that well. We need to wait to see if the next bit (turning us into a play off contender) is something he can do when we have more quality in the playing staff.

 

[Londonlisa2001]

I would say that depends if you see it through the scope of solitary seasons or as the first step of a longer plan. As a stand alone season, I agree it’s been pretty average.

As the first step on a journey however it’s the most positive season for a long time. A squad of players in a good development ages with clear asset value with a season of championship exposure under their belts, a young manager who I personally think is an exciting hire, strides made off the field to raise the clubs income and profile.

There is a lot to celebrate this year even though positionally and points wise, it will be similar to what we have seen in recent years, it feels like a much better springboard than the rest which I assume was the aim of year 1 of a project like us. I am looking forward to next season more than I have for a long time.

Yeah.

That has been said quite a few times over the past few years… The on field stuff I mean.

Off the field is promising. Albeit we wait to see how it translates into money for the club.