After this weeks developments on the transfer front I wondered what our confidence was for a good season ahead with our new owner in charge. Are we feeling confident we will have a team to challenge next season? Or do we feel downright despondent & that we might have sold the family silver by the time we kick off?! It will be interesting to see peoples views now & then maybe review the result in September.
I would be astonished if we challenge for the play-offs. If Mackay manages that, there won't be enough superlatives to describe the achievement.
hi Leonardo, fair enough but that was really the point - to see how we feel now after the last 2 days & then compare it & see if our optimism/pessimism has improved by the time the transfer window closes.
I cant believe 40% are saying relagation scrap, I put poor season ahead, but it is hard to tell at this point
Same here, i can see us doing what we did this season. A good start trailing off to nothing. However all of this is dependant on us signing a LB and a striker and a winger. Conway, Taylor and KP could fit the bill. This season will be a stormy sea for all at WFC
I would say solidly enough in mid table (with the squad etc as they are now) with potential to mix it up with the top ten but still outside the play-offs but it is very early doors at this stage.
sorry to be the miserable git in the camp but as it stands TODAY i can see nothing but relegation, But then the season is weeks away so plenty can change,
I looked into my crystal ball and predicted that we will challenge for the play-offs again (but not get a place). In fact, we will finish 9th. Marvin will score 19 goals, Loach will have a fantastic season and come next summer we'll be looking at a £6m Arsenal bid for him. After Buckley and Graham have left, I'm not sure how this will happen, but you heard it here first...
It will be a relegation scrap--which is not to say of course that we will be relegated. But almost every other team in this division is better resourced than we are, and seem to be busy strengthening their squads, while (as of now) it seems likely that we will be weaker going into the new season than we were last term. So more of a struggle. You need to be an optimist to think we will survive, a blind optimist to think we will be mid-table and a citizen of cloud cuckoo land to think we will be play-off contenders. So far in the poll--- 4 cuckoos!
There could be the additional complication that Marvin will miss the beginning of the season if he's picked in the England U-20 squad for their World Cup. Their first group game is July 29th, their last is August 4th. Then if they make it through to the knockout stages..and it's in Colombia! Here's the link to the story on the FA website: http://www.thefa.com/England/mens-u20s/News/2011/world-cup-draw-280411
I want to make clear that I only voted "mortified" because the way the poll is set up, anything below the playoffs is considered a "poor season". I think we will be sweating on our Championship future this season, but believe that we will be safe with a game to spare.
The under 20s World Cup is generally a mad scramble to find any 23 eligible English players that professional club managers are happy to lose for a month. Marvin wouldn't have fallen into that bracket three days ago, let alone now. Once we get to pre-season, every day that we go without replacing one or both of the two recent sales, he will become that little bit more important to our hopes of getting off to another good start.
Same as NNW, I went for mortified. Partly because I'm a natural pessimist but also because it seemed the most suitable option. By no means am I saying we're certain to go down, but I do think we'll be in a scrap. Still, the beauty of football is you never know. I remember looking forward to Boothroyd's first full season, completely believing the pundits and expecting us to go down. Got that one wrong...
