SAFC 2012
Striker
Some of our fans just dont want to accept the truth it seemsHow could our lowest ever finish be overachieving?
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Some of our fans just dont want to accept the truth it seemsHow could our lowest ever finish be overachieving?
If we don't finish top 2 then we've under achieved
To be fair the premiet/championship standard players are our best performersTend to agree with this.
The upheaval in teh summer, the new owners, the new management team and massive changes in the playing squad meamnt we started a bit slowly, but I think we should be expecting more now of a squad that has PL/Championship standard players in it. Our main weakness is our defence and that is costing us game after game.
There are two types of people marra, those who are constantly surprised at life and those that can see things as they happen and change their minds accordinglySo falling short for you is not being promoted by mid-April? Or have you just decided already we are not going up?
Who's talking about cast iron guarantees? We're talking about expectations based on the history and size of the club coupled with the new debt free status and budget size relevant to our competitors. Fans of this club have every right to expect that those factors should ensure any stay in this league is a very short one.
So why spend £3 million on a striker in January, think the owners expect us to go up?I think with a pretty much whole new squad, new manager we have done well to be where we are.. Didn't expect us to challenge for top two yet here we are.. I expected us to challenge for play offs and we've confirmed that already. So expectations have been met imo.
So why spend £3 million on a striker in January, think the owners expect us to go up?
Some of our fans just dont want to accept the truth it seems
People keep saying about only 3 losses which doesn’t exactly tell the full story.
3 loses is remarkable. However, not when you put 18 draws into the same sentence. Shows we’ve dropped points throughout the season.
Despite the 3 loses we are very much in a battle for 2nd place and looking at the bookies odds (Sky Bet) were 3rd favourite for that position (5/2) odds for 2nd place behind Barnsley (Fav) and Pompey (2nd Favs).
Mid table in league 1 manOverachieving.
At the beginning of the season I would have been relatively happy with mid-table stabilisation, given the total car-crash state of the club over the last two seasons (at least!).
By Xmas I started to think that we were in with a chance of the play-offs.
Up until two games ago I would have said we were certanties for at least second place.
Now I really don't know.
The pressure is on; only one out of four will get the automatic.
I hope its us.
The play-offs are a bit of a lottery.
Mid table in league 1 man
We have spent more than the whole league combined and we certainly havent done so to finish mid table
The history and size of the club are irrelevant to where we are currently.
We have no right to expect anything from our new owners, new manager and amended team this first season.
Make progress - good
Make play offs but not promoted - not the end of the world
Achieve promotion through play offs or automatically - great but next year will be tougher
Win the league - delighted but unlikely
Being a big club historically has no bearing on where we find ourselves. We arrived at this situation because the club deserved it; that’s got no bearing on the quality of support who have been unable to influence anything over the past ten years.
From an outside perspective, I don't think you're underachieving. You've got an imbalanced squad, the manager is untested at this level and players were signed without the manager knowing what he needed. Promotion was always going to be a stretch at the start of the season, and you've done better than I thought.