Truly extraordinary. The difference though in performances and feel good factor is enormous. What a great season that was in terms of football.
Indeed. That season I felt from the Sheff Utd away game v early on in the season that we could do it, a fact compounded after we smashed Ipswich away. This year it feels laboured, unenjoyable and always on the verge of going t**s up.
And Leicester away too strangely enough. I keep reminding myself that at the start of this season, playoffs was my best hope.
Part of me thinks I shouldn't worry about the Rangers and focus more on making jam and elderberry gin. A period of sustained success (or even stability) seems beyond us.
I foolishly looked at the games after Reading and thought we could do 11 wins in a row. That would be nice.
It was better I'll grant you but don't let the prism of nostalgia could your judgment, Gooch. More often than not that season, the football was almost as unbearable as this one. We ground teams down with typical COLIN-style football, not too unlike Redknapp's current one. The only difference was Taarabt's amazing performances that year. I got to see between 35 and 40 matches that year and it was a relief to go up so we wouldn't have to play that type of scrapball in that shi*ty division again for a long time. (Only two years as it turned out )
Absolutely. We played some superb stuff that season, with a front 4 all interchanging positions, backed up by 2 holding players in a fluid 4-2-3-1. That set up makes Harry's attempts this season look completely inept. And from a manager (Warnock) who many would consider to be tactically inept!!
Swordsies take.... Cols take... Polar opposites.....it really is amazing how we see things differently......
Unbelivable almost that we have the same points.....feels so different. We have 17 games left...that's a lot of points to be had.
Wow really does feel different, can't see us getting auto simply don't have the goals in the team, will be play offs and that will be horrid
At this stage in our championship winning season we had 67 points, seven more than we have now That tally was enough to see us five points clear of the chasing pack, but would have us third in today's table, ten behind Leicester and two behind Burnley. Our current tally of 60 would also have given us 4th spot back then, just as it does today.
