Losing Snodgrass on the first day was disastrous. He is the kind of player our midfield has sorely missed. Same with Diame. Replace Quinn and Meyler - both hard workers but very limited - with the aforementioned and we would have been much stronger this season. We would also have been much improved had our goalkeeper not lost his confidence halfway through the campaign and cost us vital points. Another big loss has been the Curtis Davies of last season. The FA Cup Final defeat seems to have broken him. Hernandez hasn't worked out (and in my opinion never will) but, though £10M seems a lot it's nothing for a proven striker. It was always going to be a gamble. Unfortunately it never paid off. My main beef is that we haven't bought a decent RB. Elmo is probably our fittest player, but even he can't be expected to run up and down the line all season and not get tired, as he has seemed over the past month. Not that he was ever much cop at defending.
It's been a rubbish season and odds are we are going down, but we were always going to end the season in the bottom third. Look at the table as the final game approaches, it looks much the same as it does every year at this time. Leicester have over-achieved and Newcastle (please god, send them down) have imploded once again, but it's pretty much exactly what you'd expect.
It's been a rubbish season and odds are we are going down, but we were always going to end the season in the bottom third. Look at the table as the final game approaches, it looks much the same as it does every year at this time. Leicester have over-achieved and Newcastle (please god, send them down) have imploded once again, but it's pretty much exactly what you'd expect.
