Already excited for next season

WeeGord

WeeGord

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Last night was a bitter pill to swallow and a tough watch, of that there is no doubt. Wasn't the most pleasant journey home truth be told with 'what ifs' constantly churning in my mind.

This morning however, I'm starting to think a little more with my head than my heart and today doesn't seem so bad.

Firstly, let's not forget where we came from on this journey. A third of the way through the season we were in 21st place, confidence was rock bottom and our players had been constantly thrown under the bus by the dinosaur that is Chris Wilder. At that point in time our goal was mid table mediocrity at best.

Up steps Michael Carrick (who quite a few initially opposed) and in the last two-thirds of the season took us on a hell of an adventure. Flying up the league, goals scored left, right and centre, great football, a nearly 30 goals a season striker and even briefly pushing automatic promotion.

The fairytale ending didn't quite happen of course and that hurts. But to compare from where we were just a few months ago the difference is night and day.

You could see the reaction of the players at full time and they are a solid, passionate group who have a genuine togetherness. Carrick built that. Yes, some of our players will move on but in recent times our recruitment has got its act together and while I'd love to sign Giles, Steffen, Archer, Ramsey and Mowatt I'm confident that those who don't return can be replaced.

Additionally we will have a full pre season to work on the squad, plan for the season and make no mistake Carrick and the players will have learned a lot from last night. Take our lessons from the adversity, turn the negative anguish of losing out into a positive driving determination to go one better next season.

We are also in a good place financially given the likes of Britt and the other Monk era signings are dropping off the FFP book.

Yesterday hurt, as it does today too. But after our two-thirds season under one of the brightest young managers in the game I'm not half excited for next season.

UTB.
 
WeeGord said:
Last night was a bitter pill to swallow and a tough watch, of that there is no doubt. Wasn't the most pleasant journey home truth be told with 'what ifs' constantly churning in my mind.

This morning however, I'm starting to think a little more with my head than my heart and today doesn't seem so bad.

Firstly, let's not forget where we came from on this journey. A third of the way through the season we were in 21st place, confidence was rock bottom and our players had been constantly thrown under the bus by the dinosaur that is Chris Wilder. At that point in time our goal was mid table mediocrity at best.

Up steps Michael Carrick (who quite a few initially opposed) and in the last two-thirds of the season took us on a hell of an adventure. Flying up the league, goals scored left, right and centre, great football, a nearly 30 goals a season striker and even briefly pushing automatic promotion.

The fairytale ending didn't quite happen of course and that hurts. But to compare from where we were just a few months ago the difference is night and day.

You could see the reaction of the players at full time and they are a solid, passionate group who have a genuine togetherness. Carrick built that. Yes, some of our players will move on but in recent times our recruitment has got its act together and while I'd love to sign Giles, Steffen, Archer, Ramsey and Mowatt I'm confident that those who don't return can be replaced.

Additionally we will have a full pre season to work on the squad, plan for the season and make no mistake Carrick and the players will have learned a lot from last night. Take our lessons from the adversity, turn the negative anguish of losing out into a positive driving determination to go one better next season.

We are also in a good place financially given the likes of Britt and the other Monk era signings are dropping off the FFP book.

Yesterday hurt, as it does today too. But after our two-thirds season under one of the brightest young managers in the game I'm not half excited for next season.

UTB.
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In reality it was tight and they got the vital break, if Chunable had managed to score on Sunday it would all have been different.
 
Colin Warnek said:
Tbh I’m really not. Leicester Saints coming down, maybe Leeds or Everton. It seems like there’s only one way out of this league and it’s top 2. We don’t have the resources to compete.
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Agree that we won't have a chance as easy as this again but no reason not to be excited, the football we have played under Carrick has been the best stuff I've seen in my lifetime. Even if it's playoffs again it'll be one hell of a ride, everyone complained when we got playoffs under Pulis because it was boring so let's appreciate what we have now.
 
Colin Warnek said:
Tbh I’m really not. Leicester Saints coming down, maybe Leeds or Everton. It seems like there’s only one way out of this league and it’s top 2. We don’t have the resources to compete.
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This season the likes of Norwich, West Brom, Watford should have been there or thereabouts at the top of the league and they weren't.

It's going to be a tough, tough league again next season but momentum is a funny thing in football. Our trajectory has been a very positive one and when clubs get relegated they often go into a downward spiral.

I'm by no means saying we are going to smash the league, but with the right recruitment and approach I don't think there will be anyone to fear and we'll be there or thereabouts come the end of the season.
 
We’ve blown it. This is the weakest the league has ever been and we couldn’t beat Coventry City over two legs. We couldn’t even score a goal.

We’re not going to have the league’s top scorer and top assister next season. Half the team is loan players and you’ve got established Premier League clubs coming down who’ll be armed with parachute payments.

We simply don’t have the finances to compete, I’ll be amazed if next season is anything like this one.
 
The teams coming down are all basket cases. Leicester have been in huge debt. Most of the others don't have managers. Don't fret. Scott now knows what he is working with. He will be at his desk this morning sorting deals out I would imagine. A lot of seasons are over. We have an advantage on the teams who might come down and those in the play offs who don't know which league they will be in. And we have Michael Carrick.

So let's be positive. This season has ended up being pretty brilliant. And next season will be fun and entertaining. Not easy but I bet it's enjoyable.
 
InglebyUTB said:
We’ve blown it. This is the weakest the league has ever been and we couldn’t beat Coventry City over two legs. We couldn’t even score a goal.

We’re not going to have the league’s top scorer and top assister next season. Half the team is loan players and you’ve got established Premier League clubs coming down who’ll be armed with parachute payments.

We simply don’t have the finances to compete, I’ll be amazed if next season is anything like this one.
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This is nonsense. The teams coming down are either skint (Leicester who also will lose most players) or basket cases (Southampton, Leeds). And the teams who have gone up in recent seasons aren't always the big spenders. It's bring clever. We will be fine. We will compete. And that is what we can ask.
 
Not remotely excited. This feels like the end of 96/97 when you knew the most exciting players would be leaving.
 
Talksport yesterday were saying Leicester could go straight down to League 1 because so many players will leave, i think thats absolute nonsense. 3,4 will but Vardy will stay and get 15-20 goals they'll replace who leave and they'll be up there. Same goes for the other teams who come down. It's going to be absolutely solid to get in the top 6 next year and the fact we had Akpom in the best season of his life i'd be surprised if he got anywhere near his goals tally again, Giles with his assists, the impact Ramsey/Archer had and how injury free we went for such a long time. It all seemed to fall into place until the **** end of the season and we ran out of steam. Deflated
 
Yep, pretty apprehensive at present. Struggle to see how it will be easier next season. Teams seem to have worked out how to play us as well....just kick us off the pitch.
 
Amazing how many times I’ve read that we don’t have the finances to compete, less than 24hrs after losing in the playoffs - which consisted of four clubs without a parachute payment between them. The last time we got promoted we didn’t have parachute payments either.

Brentford, Brighton, Huddersfield, Leeds, Sheffield United, Nottingham Forest, Wolves, have all gone up in the past few years without parachute payments. There’ll be one more this season.

It’s not necessarily what you’ve got to spend, it’s how you spend what you do have. You need to be clever and smart and have a clear plan. And our recruitment over the past year or so has been very encouraging. I don’t get the doom and gloom, I have to be honest.
 
Colin Warnek said:
Tbh I’m really not. Leicester Saints coming down, maybe Leeds or Everton. It seems like there’s only one way out of this league and it’s top 2. We don’t have the resources to compete.
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Leicester maybe but Saints and Leeds don’t concern me. Vulnerable and could do a Norwich this season we will have as good a chance as any but we need to recruit wisely in the Summer.
 
No way of knowing what next season will bring.

There will be a lot of exits a few coming in and a question mark over whether Chuba can carry on scoring for fun.

Watching the game last night you couldn't help wondering WHAT IF we'd pushed the boat out and signed Gyrokees when we had the chance? Good luck to Coventry. Hope they beat Luton.
 
We need to keep improving our squad each season with permanent signings. As good as these loans are if we cant affoard to sign them permanently in the championship then i would rather get up an coming player instead from the championship or lower leagues. Luton and coventry have shown that having half a team of premier league loans isnt the way forward.
 
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