The 2024/25 season

[PSumbler]

A tale of what could have been?

 

[WentToSchoolWith]

Really meh season, very few memorable moments.

My highlight by far was Oxford away. Genuinely one of the great away days. Good game, good result, and an amazing city to spend the rest of the day in. Hope they stay up just to do it again.

 

[bakajack]

A tale of what could have been?

Clearly football web pages didn't research the QPR game very well.
Tymon was the first scorer?

 

[FearOfAJackPlanet]

Up until the Portsmouth away game it was very up and down - there was a general feeling of gloom about the club as I think everyone realized we were in need of yet another manager change in the Summer - if not before, but we were still within theoretical reach of a play-off push if we got some consistency and had a good January window, but the drop-off from that Pompey game through to Williams getting the boot was dramatic. It did seem there was a genuine threat we could go down.

Now look at us. Pissing the league and having fun.

Very weird season.

 

[Gors Buster]

Up until the Portsmouth away game it was very up and down - there was a general feeling of gloom about the club as I think everyone realized we were in need of yet another manager change in the Summer - if not before, but we were still within theoretical reach of a play-off push if we got some consistency and had a good January window, but the drop-off from that Pompey game through to Williams getting the boot was dramatic. It did seem there was a genuine threat we could go down.

Now look at us. Pissing the league and having fun.

Very weird season.

Portsmouth was as bad as it gets.
Cardiff were up for the derby, Portsmouth were just there.
The players looked broken. Grimes looked ashamed coming over to us at the end.
LW should have been sacked after that, there was no coming back.
I’ll hold my hands up though and say I thought the squad were beyond redemption. Chuffed to be wrong.

 

[Ringwood]

Portsmouth was as bad as it gets.
Cardiff were up for the derby, Portsmouth were just there.
The players looked broken. Grimes looked ashamed coming over to us at the end.
LW should have been sacked after that, there was no coming back.
I’ll hold my hands up though and say I thought the squad were beyond redemption. Chuffed to be wrong.

Pompey away was dreadful as was Cardiff and Norwich... didn't enjoy Southampton either

 

[K23]

It's incredible what can be achieved in this division simply by putting players in their best roles and getting the basics right. Teams have got promoted by doing little more than that but they've also proved that's not enough to stay in the Prem.

 

[sainthelens]

Just goes to prove that appointing the right manager is the most important thing. The players have proved that they were/are good enough but with tw@ts in charge it's pointless.
Not just this season but past few have morphed together.

 

[Dr. Winston]

It's incredible what can be achieved in this division simply by putting players in their best roles and getting the basics right.

Innit.

We saw that at the tail end of the 22/23 season when Martin briefly stopped messing about, picked a sensible back four and played Ntcham through the middle. Was it something like eight wins out of ten and nine unbeaten with the same squad that had beaten eleven men just once in six months playing Russyball?

 

[Cooperman]

October killed off so much hope and enthusiasm. We became known as Swansea Nil.

 

[K23]

October killed off so much hope and enthusiasm. We became known as Swansea Nil.

With hindsight Williams should have been sacked immediately for blank October. If Sheehan had been appointed in November, it's surely not impossible that we would have reached the playoffs as we're only 6 points short now.

 

[AusinIsOurHero]

A lot of the players have had the football, flair & attacking individuality coached out of them by Russ & the Bald man.
The football had become so robotic.
They're only now starting to recover.
Plenty of opportunities to pull the trigger earlier than they did.
Unfortunately this season has become another expensive mistake, but hopefully the club will (finally) learn from it going into next season.

 

[LeonWasTheDogs]

With hindsight Williams should have been sacked immediately for blank October. If Sheehan had been appointed in November, it's surely not impossible that we would have reached the playoffs as we're only 6 points short now.

Although if he’d been sacked earlier, it’s more likely they’d have appointed a new manager. So we could have got even worse under Gary Megson.

We need to remember Sheehan’s landed into the owners’ lap. They’ve struck lucky with a caretaker. Their next decision about the role will be vital.