MickaelDebevePhenomenal
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I try not to make predictions after my "we will be up by christmas" line in the ill fated Strachan Jockification experiment!
Me !!So, who said 8th?
Using position as the only metric doesn't take into account a whole host of other variables that have affected our (and others) season.any grouping is arbitrary, but there are those who thought we were going up or in the play offs, they have been proven optimists
those who thought we would fall a little short, the realists
those who believed it was a season of struggle in the bottom half, the pessimists who time has proven wrong
Nobody is arguing otherwise, but this with this being a thread on where people expected us to come that’s what we are discussing, instead of tangentsUsing position as the only metric doesn't take into account a whole host of other variables that have affected our (and others) season.
But we didn’t finish in play-offs so with hindsight, that wasnt realistic c and calling people pessimist's who said we would finish 9th doesn’t match reality. Anyway, the above categorising seems, erm, arbitraryAnd surely you can't lump automatic and play-offs together in any serious analysis?
Taking nothing else into account a better split would be:
1-2 Automatic - Optimistic
3-8 Play-off contenders - Realistic
9-15 Missed the boat - Pessimistic
That makes no sense. Predicting something that ultimately wasn’t achievable isn’t a sense of reality, it’s the dictionary definition of an optimistic viewpoint.Where we actually finish might be 'reality' (and the table doesn't lie etc.) but predictions of play-off contention were the closest to that reality.
Mostly got that wrong, mind you I wasn't to know about the injuries, we are about 17pts behind 4 th so I was miles off.I think we do well from October onwards, August and September will be about getting players back from injury, finding best combinations of players and bedding new players who are to be bought and new loanees coming in, Ramsey if he comes will hopefully settle quickly. I think we finish 4th, maybe a bit less fluid than last season but more importantly less frail and more able to dig in.
LL had me sweating on this one.Agreed Coulson whatever he is, is not the answer to the left back spot.
I like to think( maybe delusionaly ) that good Strikers can be like Busses, you wait for ages for one then you get two at once, hopefully one we have proves that true.
I must have been slipped some magic mushrooms before writing this, Sunderland at the top. With my later prediction - 6th(before the start of the season) I seem to be getting more realistic, a strange combination of tripping and realism.1.Sund
2. Leeds
3. Leicester
4. Southampton
5. Sheff Wed
6. Boro