No-one had them down as top 6 certainties until he was sacked and history was re-written. The bookies had them down as 16th favourites for promotion at the start of the season.
They were probably a top 10 squad, but people go on about their players as if the other squads in this league weren't good. They had Philogene - so what? We had Clarke, Leeds has Summerville, Norwich had Rowe, even bloody Plymouth had Whittaker.
Twine and Delap were names but nothing special.
Carvalho fair enough. Greaves is another. But they don't have a lot of standout players beyond that.