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McKenna: Hutchinson Not Mentally in Right Place For France Trip
at 21:34:19

This is standard fare but we really don't have to sell if we don't want to. Omari will have been told by his agent thats the way he gets the move. I want an angry Hutchinson to tear up the Championship or at least 40m. The ball is in our court and he'll play once the season starts/window closes. I think we have to play our cards and reward players after succeeding with us IN THE PREM. Force him to stay unless they pay up. He'll get over it. As fans we have to be understanding of his wish to play at the highest level. He will comfortably fit in as a squad player at most of the lower/mid table teams that have more going for them than we had last season, so its understandable that he wants to get there.

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McKenna: The Reality is We've Been Very Adaptable This Year
at 23:07:26

I get that the points total is disappointing, but if we'd had some luck and things going our way we'd at least be much closer to survival. So many incidents that didn't go our way, that would have led to us picking up points.

And what do people honestly expect from this season? Competing with 17 clubs with established squads they can incrementally improve with big money signings. We were bottom of the league for squad value at the start of the season. We had to improve the squad to have any chance, which means a bunch of players who don't know each other or have a rapport and then we got hit with a lot of very unfortunate injuries, including our best defender slicing his hand with a kitchen knife! The idea that someone can look at our season and moan at McKenna is insane to me. I can't be bothered to do it but you could list the incidents and decisions that have gone against us and its a lot of points affected. There were some off days including some games we really should have won. (Soton H, Man United A) but with what he was dealing with that was bound to happen.

IMHO McKenna and Ashton played a blinder by thinking long term with the squad and signing players with a high ceiling that could improve with time and give us a good chance to go up next season, and hopefully a better chance in two years where we won't have to sign a whole team.

I remember when we went down last time and everyone wanted Sheepshanks out. I think this fanbase is mostly not delusional. So McKenna didn't work two miracles in a row. But ive enjoyed this season and we'll really miss him when he's gone. Yes we didn't stay up, and we have a low points total, but if that's your only metric for success/progress it's only going to be harder the more the promoted teams go down.

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McKenna: Johnson Has Built Well Over the Season
at 00:10:45

Is it possible to configure the comments section so the positively rated ones are at the top and the negatively rated ones are at the bottom? Feel like theres a few people who get in early with the neg comments and it becomes the first thing I see after reading an article...

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