07-05-2021, 03:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-05-2021, 03:31 PM by Strawberry Avenger.)
(07-05-2021, 08:39 AM)TheGreenMan Wrote: I never understand the ‘we overachieved’ or even this season teams like Barnsley have overachieved by reaching the play offs. You finish in the league table where you deserve to finish.
Barnsley. There's always one outlier. Though they did recruit a pretty good striker. Did they get lucky? Or did they just recruit better? Our striker was buried under 3 injuries. They had their 'Lolley' uninjured in Mowett who supplied the creative guile? And made good use of the circumstances with their high octane subs strategy?
Expectations. Well, that's relative to the sun. Expectations vary from the owners to the fans. We all want success. I felt we over achieved last season with the 'lucky 6' recruitment of Talisman Sow. Each time he got hurt? My expectations changed. I didn't think we'd do it without a fit destroyer in DCM.
Last season will live in infamy for the complete capitulation. The strategy carry over to this season utterly torpedo'd any chance we had of 'over achieving' again.
(Losing Watson, Cash, Grabban to injury, Grabban to injury 3 times, Sow to injury, Worrall to injury twice. That Hughton managed to stabilise the side with the returning Worrall, Sow and Grabban along with urgent January transfer business is a minor miracle.)
The owners expect top 6. They didn't achieve that last season or this. Or before. Once is ignorance. Twice could be unfortunate accident. Three. Four. Five times? It becomes a pattern of failure that I hope we break by sticking with Hughton.
We simply have to recruit better quality players who can put it in the onion bag.
I'm optimistic that we have the right man to recruit and promote 'Perennial Basket Case Forest.'
SA.