by Snowball »
22 Mar 2021 09:25
Hound Bit the same with our season. Great if we make the play offs, still been a positive season if not
Don’t think we’ve quite enough to get beyond the semis if we did. In my mind we’d either need Joao on the sort of of form he was a couple of months ago and/or Swift to be fit and firing 100%
Also strange to say but a bit bored of the season tbh. Bored of just watching everything on TV. Everything just feels a bit samey
I think "the disappointment" is simply due to the ridiculously-good start.
Was it Charlton who came to The Madejski top of the table, beat us and were top after about ten games, then relegated?
Had we been 13th for most of the season until 8 games ago and recently had the WWWWWWDW run to take us up to sixth, we would be ecstatic.
Bristol City
Reading
Brentford
Barnsley
Cardiff
Norwich
and now Watford
and in a partial way QPR
(not sure about Swansea and Bournemouth)
have all had some very good "exceptional" runs.
That's why we have 46 games not six.
If we finish top six, we deserve it. At the start of the season most of us would've been happy with "top 8/9 and ready for next season"
We should remember that (if we miss out) as long as the disappointment doesn't affect us (I don't think it will) - next season, Holmes and McIntyre will be better, Laurent and Rhino will be just as solid or a tad better, we will have got some big wages off the books, and will find a decent LB, a 3rd/4th striker, a winger, and fitted Swift with bionic hamstrings
Yes, we will probably sell Olise but we can get a sound replacement for a coupla million (and we still have Swift).
Me, I would try to move on Moore, because of his wages and clone Morrison. In 2022-23 Holmes-McIntyre would probably be our CBs.
and who will come through from the Academy?