Finishing Position: 7th Promotion (Y/N): Y FA Cup Round: 1st round Carabao Cup Round: 12th round Player of the Season: Theo Disappointment of the Season: Theo Most improved player of the season: Theo Will Martin see out the season Y/N: N replaced by Theo in September.
I didn’t ask for all the positions in the league. Just for which sides will appear above us. Doesn’t need to be in order. Because it is one thing to manage expectations and even to be very disillusioned by last season. But it is another entirely to just completely ignore who else is in the league and just pick a place well outside the playoffs to complete the doom and gloom. A prediction of 12th requires an assumption that 11 sides will finish above us. And if who those might be hasn’t been really considered and that position has just been arrived at because “we were awful last year” then I think querying it is reasonable
Predicting anything in football is a mugs game so I will pass on this as I haven't a clue what will happen other than I hope to be entertained and that we get promoted..
I was going to post my predictions, but felt anxious and worried they may not live up to the expectations of Greg, and the amount of research and justification required to satisfy his needs. All I will offer is I think we are going to win more games than last season, and lose less games than last season. Im too anxious to give an opinion on the ratio of draws.
You are right about it being a mug's game, but since there's no money riding on it, there's nothing to lose. The very worst that can happen, is that your predictions are so amateurish and pathetic, so embarrassing, so ferociously bad, that you get the suffix -curse added to your name.
So, using a highly scientific and secret formula I’ve decided to suggest a finishing order for the league … P Smoggies P Leicester PO Leeds PO Mackems PO Norwich PO WBA Sheff W Blackburn Ipswich Millwall 11 Saints Coventry Plymouth Swansea Watford Preston Brizzle Udders Cardiff Hull Stoke R Brum R Rotherham R QPR
Finishing Position: 16th Promotion (Y/N): N FA Cup Round: 4th round Carabao Cup Round: 4th round Player of the Season: Manning Disappointment of the Season: Martin and SR Most improved player of the season: Lyanco Will Martin see out the season Y/N: N- gone by Christmas
Finishing Position: 2nd Promotion (Y/N): Y FA Cup Round: 5th round Carabao Cup Round: Quarter Final Player of the Season: Amo - Ameyaw Disappointment of the Season: Adams Most improved player of the season: Endozi Will Martin see out the season Y/N: Y Highlight- Apart from promotion, beating Pompey in a cup. Disappointment - Not being able to watch all the fantastic wins as we blaze through the championship because I'm in Spain and I doubt I'll always get streams.
Basically just guessing randomly given how much is likely to change between now and the end of the transfer window. Might do it again September 2nd. Finishing Position: 2nd Promotion (Y/N): Y FA Cup Round: 4th round Carabao Cup Round: Quarters Player of the Season: Alcaraz Disappointment of the Season: Mara Most improved player of the season: Bazunu Top goalscorer: Alcaraz Top assists: Alcaraz Will Martin see out the season Y/N: Y
Finishing Position: 7 Promotion (Y/N): N FA Cup Round: 4th round Carabao Cup Round: 2nd round Player of the Season: Tino Disappointment of the Season: Mara Most improved player of the season: Bazanu Will Martin see out the season Y/N: Y
Only just seen this. My reasoning is I just don’t have any confidence in the current squad to be consistent at all. Think it will be a very patchy season where we don’t string results together with any regularity and ultimately finish about half way. On our day we will look good and a match for anyone but that won’t happen often enough and we will have a lot of those “1-0 defeat” games we had last season as well. I can’t be bothered to list 12 teams who I think will finish above us, as I honestly don’t know, I just think we won’t get on a roll and lose/draw a lot of games we should in theory win and this will see us finish in mid table nothingness, despite our side on paper being better than most in the league.
We have the same momentum and direction of travel as a rock... But I am hoping the rock will hit the ground is about to bounce.
Yeah it was our main issue last year as well. I still believe the squad we had last year was better talent wise than 5/6 other teams and we should’ve stayed up pretty comfortably but the poor management decisions and absolute gutless mentality in the squad meant we finished bottom by a long way
Methinks Bristol City and Swansea will both finish higher up the table, while Norwich, Sheff Wed and Middlesboro will all finish lower.
For those of you that enjoy a prediction or two the new Prediction League for the 23/24 season is now up and running here - https://www.not606.com/threads/weekend-5-august.407854/ We have quite a few regular participants but it would be great to see some new faces for this season.
