| Expectations, reality and normalcy 08:07 - Mar 22 with 3139 views | bsw72 |
I think there is a peculiar distortion affecting how many supporters are currently assessing this season. The benchmark being applied, consciously or not, is drawn from the two most extraordinary consecutive seasons in the division’s modern history.
In 2023-24, Leicester claimed the title on 97 points while we finished runners-up on 96. The following year, Leeds and Burnley both crossed the 100-point mark. These were not high-water marks. They were freakish anomalies that have no business serving as a baseline for what promotion requires.
The historical reality is rather dull. Champions have lifted the trophy on as few as 87 points. A runners-up spot has been secured on 79. Across fifteen seasons, exceeding 95 points happened only 40% of the time at the summit.
The current campaign, by contrast, looks entirely typical of a normal, competitive Championship year. That context was conspicuously absent when bookmakers installed Town as pre-season favourites and sections of the fanbase arrived in August declaring “100 points, 100 goals” as a realistic ambition. That was always magical thinking dressed up as expectation.
What compounds the distortion is the sheer turbulence this club has absorbed since 2022. Back-to-back promotions, while extraordinary achievements, has brought profound disruption. Premier League infrastructure, staffing, scouting, medical provision and playing philosophy all had to be rebuilt almost instantly. Relegation then triggered another wave of upheaval, with significant player turnover as contracted Premier League talent departed and a largely new squad was assembled at considerable cost. A lot of supporters see that outlay and expect instant cohesion, but football has never worked that way.
A collection of expensively acquired individuals is not a team. Shared understanding, tactical familiarity and the slow accumulation of trust between players cannot be purchased. The truth is that the club has not known anything resembling normalcy since 2022, and a settled, functional squad identity takes time to build.
The 25-26 season is not underperformance. It is a club and new team still finding its feet. We just forgot what normal looks like. |  | | |  |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 08:57 - Mar 22 with 2030 views | Cafe_Newman |
For much of the past 35 years the average footy fan has hailed the EPL as the best league in the world on account of the fact that it hasn't been dominated by one or two teams being well clear of the others by mid-March.
It's a bit mental then that a more competitive league - this year's championship - should be widely considered a "poor" year.
In reality it's been a great season in the Championship precisely because the money-bags haven't dominated it.
That we are top of the three teams that were relegated from the Prem last year, and the only one with a great chance of earning direct promotion, is probably due to the club doing something right in a very competitive league. |  |
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| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 09:16 - Mar 22 with 1984 views | Churchman |
Interesting post which I agree with. Particularly the second to last paragraph.
Some have put in the bin the idea that building a team takes time, despite that being exactly the case with McKenna’s first team. We should be winning every week 5-0 with the money paid and be top of the league by 29 points.
Expectation and entitlement are the order of the day. If the team doesn’t perform, we need to scourge the team and hunt culprits. People to blame. Stick it to them. ‘They wanted it more’ was an interesting response as the tears flowed and the underwear dampened after yesterday’s defeat (as any draw or narrow win is now viewed). No they didn’t. The players left it all out there.
Thinking of teams of the past the reality is that memory makes us forget the bad bits and embrace the good. The promotion team was much more cohesive than this one, but had the capacity to be stopped (middlesboro/Watford at home) and outplayed. Leeds x2, WBA away, Saints for much of the home game. On the flip side, it had a sense of belief and momentum the current team lacks.
The season started with little belief no momentum. Just 11 on the pitch looking like strangers and hoping for JC and JP to dig us out. Results and performances say that has improved overall. We still have a capacity to throw games away, but this team rarely loses and as McKenna in his correct interview said, the majority of the draws should have been wins.
So why didn’t we win yesterday? We played well first half and they were struggling. But second half, their changed formation, aggression, size and fitness told and they earned that point. Sometimes you have to consider the opposition. They want to win too.
How could we have won? Take better advantage first half. We made the openings. Second half when they pressed we had chances on the break that we could have made more of. But we lost control of the midfield and succumbed to their pressing which was top notch. Millwall’s final ball was often excellent. Ours was not. Choices? Theirs were pretty good, ours not quite there. I do think Nunez would have made a difference. The pace at which he plays (decisions not running) would have given them a real problem.
Their centre forward should have been sent off. Despite that he was a real handful. Aggressive, big I was left wondering if a player like him or a Kieffer Moore might be the missing option/ piece? I choose the words carefully because Azon played well and caused their big old lumps problems.
We have a good team that tries to play the right way. For me that’s worth watching, unlike Duncan’s or McCarthy’s team that usually wasn’t bar the odd game or in 14/15 season. But I know many prefer hoof it channel ball stuff so it’s a matter of choice.
This team has better players than two years ago and we have a strong squad. But it’s not as good a team. It has the same flaws that the best team of two years ago, Leeds, had. The capacity to control and dominate, but similar flaws of at times an ability to stop or fall out of a game.
The game yesterday was interesting and for Championship decent quality. We had better footballers, played better football with majority of possession and attempts. But they were brutally effective in what they do second half and earned that point.
Shout out for Jack Clarke who was worth the entrance money alone. What a good player. For Matusiwa too. Ok he made a bit of a b@lls up at the end of the game, but by and large he was excellent.
Apols for the rant.
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| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 09:18 - Mar 22 with 1971 views | SomethingBlue |
Very good post. |  |
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| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 09:58 - Mar 22 with 1905 views | jasondozzell |
Excellent post.
I think it's worth remembering that pre Gamechanger you had about 17-18,000 in the ground regularly. Suspect most of those would say this ranks as a dream season compared to what we had become used to.
Success brought returning and new fans. If your yardstick is the last 3 seasons then it's totally bonkers. |  | | |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 10:00 - Mar 22 with 1906 views | Guthrum |
Spot on.
As a comparison, at the end of March 2024 (with most teams on 39 games) all of the top three were on more points than Cov are now. There were only 13 teams on 50 or more points, as against 17 this season. There are only 6 teams currently with fewer than 45 points (5 if you remove Leicester's penalty to give their "real" match strength), two years ago there were 9.
The Championship as a whole is much more evenly competitive - stronger - than it was in 2023-24. |  |
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| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 10:16 - Mar 22 with 1849 views | SomethingBlue |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 10:00 - Mar 22 by Guthrum |
Spot on.
As a comparison, at the end of March 2024 (with most teams on 39 games) all of the top three were on more points than Cov are now. There were only 13 teams on 50 or more points, as against 17 this season. There are only 6 teams currently with fewer than 45 points (5 if you remove Leicester's penalty to give their "real" match strength), two years ago there were 9.
The Championship as a whole is much more evenly competitive - stronger - than it was in 2023-24. |
Yep – we constantly get "poor league", "weakest league ever" from those who don't understand what they are looking at but the level across the board gets higher each season. None of which is to say we shouldn't be rising above it. | |
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| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 10:25 - Mar 22 with 1818 views | WestSussexBlue |
One of the most realistic and sensible posts of seen on here for a very long time. | | | |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 10:28 - Mar 22 with 1808 views | ITFCson |
Part of the problem is the negative people shout the loudest, it happens in football and everyday life too.
We are 3rd with a game in hand, dare I say we are actually having a good season. Yes we were favourites to get promoted, but still the odds were around EVENS, which if accurate (bookies usually are) that means we will get promoted 50% the time. Right now we are odds on, so we have a better chance now to get promoted right now then we did at the start of the season. But explaining that logic to most would just go over their heads.
Of course we could do better, we could play better at times, we could of made better signings and the manager could maybe of made better decisions to at times - but all those things apply to every other team in the league. | | | |
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| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 10:43 - Mar 22 with 1758 views | waveneyblue |
Absolutely spot on.
The expectation thing is weird. There are certain fans (no point in naming names), who spend every second knocking the manager, players, transfers etc then act seemingly shocked if the team they clearly dont rate doesn't win easily every match.
Rinse and repeat every bloody week.
Football always has and always will have so many variables, but some really struggle to get their heads round it. |  | | |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 11:03 - Mar 22 with 1664 views | bsw72 |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 10:16 - Mar 22 by SomethingBlue |
Yep – we constantly get "poor league", "weakest league ever" from those who don't understand what they are looking at but the level across the board gets higher each season. None of which is to say we shouldn't be rising above it. |
The other thing is that parachute money is not the difference it used to be with financial fair play evening the field in the Championship more than it does in the Prem.
Wrexham, Coventry, Middlesbrough, Preston, WBA, Brum even Swansea all have significant private investors generally worth over £500m who are investing more and more in their clubs. | | | |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 11:15 - Mar 22 with 1594 views | Rozz |
I think we can all be guilty of losing perspective at times, particularly as next year looks like it will involve some very strong clubs. It feels like this is our best chance before we see another churn (loanees to return, McKenna's future perhaps in question again) and that rather lights a fire under the "new team finding its feet", despite the fact I agree with OP in the main.
Apart from faint memories of 2000/01 season when I was 7 years old, I have spent most of my ITFC life just wishing to be where we are now... Right in the mix at the top of the most competitive league in the country. |  | | |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 12:30 - Mar 22 with 1479 views | pointofblue |
I don't think it's as bad as some make out but it's not as good as others make out either. This should sill be our best chance of getting out of the division, and parachute payments are still an advantage. Our recruitment deserves criticism because, to a degree, the advantage hasn't been fully taken advantage of. People may point fingers at Leicester and Southampton, but Leicester went down a shambles and Southampton made a bad managerial appointment. If the season started the day Eckhart took over, they'd be right up with us. Coventry, despite their relative struggles over Christmas and the New Year, are still right therein the form table too.
Whilst the OP makes a valid point about the benchmark, we're currently in line to get to 83 points, according to PPG. That's only been good enough to gain automatic promotion four times since the turn of the century. It's four point less than Burley's team managed in 1999/2000. I don't think many fans went into the season expecting us to drop so many points and still look disjointed for long periods in March, no matter what is being said now. Then trying to cover it up by insulting other fans who mention an expensively assembled squad with Championship proven players is not hitting the heights which could fairly be expected (not the OP but others on the forum and in the thread).
We're far too reliant on individual magic. We're far too reliant on grinding out wins rather than being able to put teams to the sword for 90 minutes. In the last four games we've had around 50% of playing time where we've struggled to do the basics and lacked cohesion. Can all this be blamed on Nunez's absence? If so, we're returning to the individual magic and flair argument.
We'll see where we are in May. We have two shots for promotion. This is probably our best chance to claim one, though no doubt Leeds said the same thing in 23/24. But so far, the waters have been choppier than I think many of us expected when kicking off under the lights at Birmingham. | |
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| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 12:59 - Mar 22 with 1442 views | Illinoisblue |
All good points. I think the frustration stems from a sense we are still less than the sum of our parts. There’s an inescapable feeling we should be doing a little bit better - and if we define a little bit better as just a few points more we’d be sitting second and feeling a lot better. Stoke away the most glaring example of points carelessly dropped.
We have spent a lot of money - and chunks of it don’t appear to have been spent very wisely - but we earned the right to spend that money.
I don’t know if it’s where we’re at as a society, or the general fkwittery of football fans, or the poisonous nature of social media but from some fan reaction you’d think we were fighting relegation. The hate and abuse aimed at certain players is way way OTT.
Going into April in a 3-horse race for an auto spot - which would be a third promotion in four years - isn’t the worse place to be in. Funny ol’ season. |  |
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| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 13:20 - Mar 22 with 1369 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
No - it’s an underperformance in a weak league.
Since the parachute payments of the last decade (which have only increased year on year) you’ve needed 88 points or more to get promoted all but one time which was West Brom in 2019. If we don’t hit 88+ this season, that’s poor.
How you’ve written all that without acknowledging parachute payments is ridiculous. |  |
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| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 15:12 - Mar 22 with 1261 views | Guthrum |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 11:03 - Mar 22 by bsw72 |
The other thing is that parachute money is not the difference it used to be with financial fair play evening the field in the Championship more than it does in the Prem.
Wrexham, Coventry, Middlesbrough, Preston, WBA, Brum even Swansea all have significant private investors generally worth over £500m who are investing more and more in their clubs. |
The squad size limit is, in some ways, just as much of a brake upon free spending. Players cannot be brought in as extra cover or for too specialist purposes. Men who can cover multiple roles well are prized. Prevents hoarding which also denies talent to rivals. | |
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| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 15:24 - Mar 22 with 1208 views | waveneyblue |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 13:20 - Mar 22 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
No - it’s an underperformance in a weak league.
Since the parachute payments of the last decade (which have only increased year on year) you’ve needed 88 points or more to get promoted all but one time which was West Brom in 2019. If we don’t hit 88+ this season, that’s poor.
How you’ve written all that without acknowledging parachute payments is ridiculous. |
You've got your opinion (mainly critical) the OP and many others have theirs. I dont know if its your style of posting but you always give the vibe that yours is the correct one. (Not a dig before you call me out)
As has been mentioned a zillion times, money is a major advantage but its not the be all and end all.
We've been in constant flux for 4 seasons now, mostly for good reasons, why people cant see that and think that the cheque book is the answer to everything puzzles the life out of me. | | | |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 15:38 - Mar 22 with 1164 views | Churchman |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 13:20 - Mar 22 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
No - it’s an underperformance in a weak league.
Since the parachute payments of the last decade (which have only increased year on year) you’ve needed 88 points or more to get promoted all but one time which was West Brom in 2019. If we don’t hit 88+ this season, that’s poor.
How you’ve written all that without acknowledging parachute payments is ridiculous. |
You call it a weak league. On what basis other than it’s a convenient stick to beat the team, manager and the club with?
You see I don‘t see it as a weak league at all. A lot of clubs are spending considerable sums of money, not just this one. They weren’t 10 years ago. Money has flowed into it and there is in general better quality players filtering down as the Premier League gets stronger.
You get fewer really poor sides as we were for so many years when 15th was the height of ambition. Half the teams including ourselves were cr@p. The play off team under McCarthy wouldn’t get near the top seven or eight now, in my opinion. In addition, clubs the state Sheffield Weds are in is a rarity. The league is tough, uncompromising and teams are mostly competitive - see Blackburn yesterday.
Underperforming? To its potential, yes. But we are competitive, dominate most games, rarely lose, try and play football, which I know many hate, and have some smashing players for this level. It depends what you want I guess.
Yesterday was a competitive game of football. It was full on, interesting and some terrific stuff played by us particularly first half. While I’m disappointed we didn’t win because it might well have broken them in the top two race, but I enjoyed the game.
I thought the crowd were pretty supportive too. | | | |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 15:45 - Mar 22 with 1135 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 15:38 - Mar 22 by Churchman |
You call it a weak league. On what basis other than it’s a convenient stick to beat the team, manager and the club with?
You see I don‘t see it as a weak league at all. A lot of clubs are spending considerable sums of money, not just this one. They weren’t 10 years ago. Money has flowed into it and there is in general better quality players filtering down as the Premier League gets stronger.
You get fewer really poor sides as we were for so many years when 15th was the height of ambition. Half the teams including ourselves were cr@p. The play off team under McCarthy wouldn’t get near the top seven or eight now, in my opinion. In addition, clubs the state Sheffield Weds are in is a rarity. The league is tough, uncompromising and teams are mostly competitive - see Blackburn yesterday.
Underperforming? To its potential, yes. But we are competitive, dominate most games, rarely lose, try and play football, which I know many hate, and have some smashing players for this level. It depends what you want I guess.
Yesterday was a competitive game of football. It was full on, interesting and some terrific stuff played by us particularly first half. While I’m disappointed we didn’t win because it might well have broken them in the top two race, but I enjoyed the game.
I thought the crowd were pretty supportive too. |
Crowd sounded great, first half great, second half and result poor.
If Millwall and Hull being in the top 6 doesn’t tell you it’s a weaker league than normal with their squads, I don’t know what to tell you. We are lucky Southampton were in managerial turmoil to start the year. Obviously Leicester are a mess of a club right now.
It’s going to likely be the second least points total for second in the history of parachute payments. The guys original post picked a very obscured 70 something from before parachute payments and tried to pretend it’s normalcy, which is b*llocks.
Bournemouth went up on 88 and West Brom on 83, they have been the lowest in the last decade + | |
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| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 15:46 - Mar 22 with 1140 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 13:20 - Mar 22 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
No - it’s an underperformance in a weak league.
Since the parachute payments of the last decade (which have only increased year on year) you’ve needed 88 points or more to get promoted all but one time which was West Brom in 2019. If we don’t hit 88+ this season, that’s poor.
How you’ve written all that without acknowledging parachute payments is ridiculous. |
Has every team with parachute payments gained at least 88 points since the beginning of the last decade? Because you seem to be implying that should be the case.
Parachute payments were brought in to help teams with the financial shock of reduced incomes when their squad is on higher wages. Whether that is a good thing is a separate argument but frequently sides receiving them have not gone straight back up. It would be interesting to know the spread of points gained by clubs receiving them. Didn't Luton get relegated whilst receiving them?
Last season Ipswich took a squad that had been playing in League 1 and languishing in mid-table only 2-3 years previously and played in the Premier League. The recruitment was not great and we did not compete. Why does a squad that is incapable of competing in the Premier League have some right to run away with the Championship? Of course, we did get money that we have spent but we also lost our top two players. Have we effectively replaced Delap and Hutchinson? Do you think it is realistic that we could? What about the club would attract players with clear Premier League quality in the Championship?
If we are underachieving, what are Southampton and Leicester doing? Why should they be doing so much worse than us? What about Sheffield United who got relegated two seasons ago? Why are they not running away with the division neither this season nor last? Or Watford and Norwich who had parachute payments until last season? |  |
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| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 15:49 - Mar 22 with 1125 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 15:24 - Mar 22 by waveneyblue |
You've got your opinion (mainly critical) the OP and many others have theirs. I dont know if its your style of posting but you always give the vibe that yours is the correct one. (Not a dig before you call me out)
As has been mentioned a zillion times, money is a major advantage but its not the be all and end all.
We've been in constant flux for 4 seasons now, mostly for good reasons, why people cant see that and think that the cheque book is the answer to everything puzzles the life out of me. |
It’s more than an advantage, in the past 5 years, 2 of the 3 of the promoted teams have had parachute payments. | |
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| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 15:56 - Mar 22 with 1100 views | waveneyblue |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 15:49 - Mar 22 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
It’s more than an advantage, in the past 5 years, 2 of the 3 of the promoted teams have had parachute payments. |
As a few have pointed out, many more teams have considerable money now, regardless of parachute payments. Birmingham, Wrexham, Our friends with the Cathedral, Boro arent skint, neither are Coventry.
I honestly believe the "advantage" whilst there, is nowhere near what it used to be. | | | |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 15:58 - Mar 22 with 1086 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 15:46 - Mar 22 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Has every team with parachute payments gained at least 88 points since the beginning of the last decade? Because you seem to be implying that should be the case.
Parachute payments were brought in to help teams with the financial shock of reduced incomes when their squad is on higher wages. Whether that is a good thing is a separate argument but frequently sides receiving them have not gone straight back up. It would be interesting to know the spread of points gained by clubs receiving them. Didn't Luton get relegated whilst receiving them?
Last season Ipswich took a squad that had been playing in League 1 and languishing in mid-table only 2-3 years previously and played in the Premier League. The recruitment was not great and we did not compete. Why does a squad that is incapable of competing in the Premier League have some right to run away with the Championship? Of course, we did get money that we have spent but we also lost our top two players. Have we effectively replaced Delap and Hutchinson? Do you think it is realistic that we could? What about the club would attract players with clear Premier League quality in the Championship?
If we are underachieving, what are Southampton and Leicester doing? Why should they be doing so much worse than us? What about Sheffield United who got relegated two seasons ago? Why are they not running away with the division neither this season nor last? Or Watford and Norwich who had parachute payments until last season? |
No the under performing ones have not got those totals, which is the entire point I’m making.
Exactly, what are Leicester and Southampton doing! The favorite deflection. Leicester are a disaster of a club that have been run terribly with financial irregularities and points deductions. Southampton have had more Managers than school dinners since we both went up and have been I’m a bit of a mess with fans not brought in. These are some of reasons we were such favorites going into the season.
We have the stability, funds and have underperformed so far this season, take your Ipswich hat off and this will be the common consensus from any analyst. We’d be 10 points better off with even slightly better recruitment IMO. Hopefully we can get over the line then it will all be irrelevant but I do think we made very hard work of this attempt and going into 40 games at under 2PPG, we are lucky we aren’t out of it already.
If your argument is whataboutism with Leicester (FFP irregularities and deduction) and Luton (look at the spend differences) then you’ve already lost it!
As I’ve said 2 of the 3 clubs that have gone up last 5 years were in receipt of them. [Post edited 22 Mar 16:02]
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| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 16:00 - Mar 22 with 1076 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 15:49 - Mar 22 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
It’s more than an advantage, in the past 5 years, 2 of the 3 of the promoted teams have had parachute payments. |
How many of those teams had been in League 1 just 2 years earlier?
How many teams receiving parachute payments did NOT get promoted in each of those seasons?
From your own stats, in each of the last 5 seasons, a team without parachute payments got promoted despite at least 3 others (probably many more) receiving them. | |
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| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 16:01 - Mar 22 with 1071 views | HighgateBlue |
I never think that any 100 points, 100 goals rhetoric is helpful, and it's almost always wrong. I also remember so very many seasons of slightly to very underwhelming seasons in the Championship, so yes, it is important to be grateful for what we have, and how we're doing in relative terms to that. Indeed, compared with the dark days of league 1, we have come so far, and we should be really pleased with that.
However, insofar as the majority of complainers (often myself included) are asserting that we have at times underperformed, it's not because of a divine right, or entitlement, it's simply an underperformance compared with our budget.
A team and a manager which has benefitted from £100m or £200m to spend should be outgunning a team which has spent more like 25% of that.
We're partly a new team finding its feet because of calculated and intentional decisions to wash away some of the previous playing squad. Yes Delap and Hutch were unavoidable, but many weren't. They may or may not have been totally correct decisions, but the fact remains that they were intentional. Kieran obviously thought we stood a better chance by making an awful lot of changes. He gets the credit if it works. If it doesn't work, well that coin has two sides. But of course any criticism must be reasonable and must respect what a lot he's achieved.
I don't really know what to think about how strong the division is this year. It is certainly true that you hear "we'd better go up this year because it'll be even harder next year" pretty much every season. And yet a team playing as a team, and playing to their strengths, can do really well without too many superstars (see Millwall this year, or Town 2 years ago). The league is tight. Whether that means loads of teams are good, or hardly any are, is up for debate. I incline to the view that it's not a vintage season for quality, and that it's not that hard to get into the top 6, but I don't have really strong feelings about that.
So for me, if we should be doing better, it's not because the other teams are lame, just that we have spent so very much money.
If we finish 3rd and have a close fought loss in the playoffs it will be really disappointing, but I wouldn't be asking for any heads on spikes. That doesn't get us anywhere. If we hadn't made the playoffs, it would be a different story, but we're not in that world. Those who said we must wait until the end of the season before rushing to judgement were of course completely right.
I look forward to finding out what happens... |  | | |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 16:03 - Mar 22 with 1054 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Expectations, reality and normalcy on 15:58 - Mar 22 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
No the under performing ones have not got those totals, which is the entire point I’m making.
Exactly, what are Leicester and Southampton doing! The favorite deflection. Leicester are a disaster of a club that have been run terribly with financial irregularities and points deductions. Southampton have had more Managers than school dinners since we both went up and have been I’m a bit of a mess with fans not brought in. These are some of reasons we were such favorites going into the season.
We have the stability, funds and have underperformed so far this season, take your Ipswich hat off and this will be the common consensus from any analyst. We’d be 10 points better off with even slightly better recruitment IMO. Hopefully we can get over the line then it will all be irrelevant but I do think we made very hard work of this attempt and going into 40 games at under 2PPG, we are lucky we aren’t out of it already.
If your argument is whataboutism with Leicester (FFP irregularities and deduction) and Luton (look at the spend differences) then you’ve already lost it!
As I’ve said 2 of the 3 clubs that have gone up last 5 years were in receipt of them. [Post edited 22 Mar 16:02]
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You are taking the best performance as normal and then claiming anything below the best performance as underperformance.
Your explanations in your second and third paragraphs are the reasons why we are performing at least to par. | |
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