Have you written this season off as of now? : Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:08 pm  

I'm afraid to say I have.
We won't make it into the playoffs now.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:15 pm  

Unless there is a massive change, add 2010 to the list for me too.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:16 pm  

yup, written off. Let's play some youngsters.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:33 pm  

I've pretty much written it off whether we make the play offs or not. Even if we do sneak in it is hard to see us stringing enough decent performances together to get anywhere anyway to be honest.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:39 pm  

crookes is one of your best young players i think he would have been a regular by now if he hadn't got injured.

when is he back?

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 5:37 pm  

I wrote this season off a long long time ago.

I'm not sure what the big deal about scraping into the play-offs would be, especially with a team who I think should have been capable challenging for a place in the top five, and who many pundits thought would do even better than that.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 5:46 pm  

Asim wrote:

I wrote this season off a long long time ago.

I'm not sure what the big deal about scraping into the play-offs would be,

Agreed, we were never going to be contenders this year. The thing is I thought and stil do that it won't be for at least another couple of years before I'd expect a rebuilt team based on youth to be even a possible top-4 contender. And we have no divine right to expect that we will be. however disappointing that may be.

Asim wrote:

especially with a team who I think should have been capable challenging for a place in the top five, and who many pundits thought would do even better than that.

Yes we should have been capable of, I'd have thought, a top-6 spot. But the fans and pundits who thought we would be challenging the top 2 or 3 spots were dreaming. That said, the 'on paper' squad has seriously under-achieved so far, on almost anyone's expectations. Both in results and more to the point, many individual and collective nightmares.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 5:50 pm  

The "no" voters are not telling us why?

Hmmmmm.

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:26 pm  

I'm going to decide in a few games time...

: Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:28 pm  

Yes the mountain is just too high too climb.