Reasons we’ve had a shit season....


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What players could we realistically get as the only club in this division with regular 30,000 crowds, the biggest wage budget and the best training facilities? Seriously?

By realistically I mean when our owners want to, and need to, be financially responsible and a huge amount of money went on that one player.

My point is that in hindsight it may have been a better decision to spend that money (if £4 mil as reported) on the 1-2 central midfielders with a physical presence most supporters knew we needed, and a cheaper striker given Grigg hasn’t been that effective. Behind a couple of lads who can actually cover the pitch, our central defenders might have looked half decent.

We may have the biggest wage budget, but that doesn’t mean we should profligately increase it whilst we still have several high earners on the books and one returning in the summer with no indication of where he’ll go. We’ve been down that road before and it nearly ruined us.
 
Eh? Is that where you set the bar? Winning 10 or more games in League One? Every side in the League has done that man.

You've interpreted what I said completely wrong, it was in reference to the previous 3 seasons when we won a total of 22 matches.
That was shit, winning 22 this season even in a lower league is as good a season as we have seen for sometime.

I don't expect anything from us as a football club, we are where we are because we deserve to be, simple as.
 
The formation has been all wrong throughout the season. It’s been constantly devolved into a 4-4-2 and has left the midfield completely stodgy. We should have played a 4-3-3 with only one sitting alongside two with energy and wide players pushed up. We’ve also recruited badly (too many samey midfielders) and haven’t done enough to address the problems that were evident within the first couple of months (don’t create enough and give up too many chances). That’s individual, collective and cultural failure from manager and owners. I really wouldn’t have been too bothered at failure to be promoted if we were doing he right things for the long term good of the club. Thus far we aren’t.
 
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Players get off scot free like? Love it when that happens.

It is hard to fault the players for their effort this season. Skills and decision making, maybe but they can’t be accused of not trying like the previous few seasons.

I think Ross deserves some credit for that too. Part of his job is to motivate them, get the team spirit going and give them confidence and I feel he has done a good job there.
 
It is hard to fault the players for their effort this season. Skills and decision making, maybe but they can’t be accused of no trying like the previous few seasons.

I think Ross deserves some credit for that too. Part of his job is to motivate them, get the team spirit going and give them confidence and I feel he has done a good job there.
Then maybe it comes down to what my fatha has been banging on about for a lot of the season, they're simply not good enough, or as good as we think they should be.
 
Really?
A trip to Wembley?
Play offs (not over yet)?

I'd have said mid-table or relegated would be a shit season. IF this ends with us not going up, I'd say it'll be disappointing, but not shit.
A trip to Wembley? For a Mickey Mouse cup that we lost? Definition of Easily pleased.
 
Really?
A trip to Wembley?
Play offs (not over yet)?

I'd have said mid-table or relegated would be a shit season. IF this ends with us not going up, I'd say it'll be disappointing, but not shit.
Absolutely!
As Roy Keane and others said of Man Utd., to change the team and get the one you want takes time and a number of transfer windows. We started off this season near or at the lowest ebb there has ever been in this club. Lots of infrastructure and change has been made almost instantly but you can’t buy a team. You can buy players but a team evolves and develops.
I’m disappointed like everyone else but a Wembley final and a playoff place has more than met the expectations I had last August.
 
Right from the start of the season it was very obvious that we had a massive problem at centre half.

When the January transfer window opened we needed to bring in 2 centre halves who were a lot better than what we had. If we had done that I'm convinced we would have gone on to win the league. Instead we got one young lad in on loan who is currently thereabouts the standard of what we already had.

Anything less than promotion from this league was going to be a shit season. Lets hope that we do manage to go up, but anyone thinking it's still a decent season if we don't is very easily pleased.
 
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