I’ve not changed mine but I decided to wait until we’d had around 10/15 games, and having seen what miracles Sergj has provided with an injury ravaged squad I’m quite confident that he’ll get us to at least the play offs. I just hope we can hang onto him. I know Acun jumped in and extended Rosie’s contract at the wrong time (as it turned out) but I’d be more than happy with him extending Jak’s, as this has a totally different feel to it.
I was really skeptical after about 6 or 7 games but we’ve been storming ever since. If we keep our form up we’ll have more points at Christmas than we did under Rosie. In fact, any other time we’ll have been that high at Christmas we’ve gone up. I’m not going to get carried away because there’s a lot of season left, but Jakirović has been an astute piece of recruitment so far.
I don’t think the contract extension would have been a problem had we not signed a bunch of players and disrupted the chemistry we had the time. If we’d made one or two astute signings we would have been really happy with that season. Instead, we moved the goalposts and expected too much too quickly.
Goodness me. I think we have a really exciting and capable side, but I don’t see us finishing in the top six. There are much stronger squads looming in the rear view mirror, and we’ve yet to have a genuine bad spell. I reckon 12-14th is about right, which is probably going to be 6 or 8 points short of the top six because it’s such a tight division this season.
