Quote: rubber duckie "I don't get this 'transitional' period a lot of posters are talking about.
This is the TS team and I've not once seen reference by him that we are in a transitional phase.'"
Why would you expect him to make a reference to it being a "transitional season" especially this early on in proceedings? It's virtually waving a white flag and saying to your competitors that you aren't going to be competative so come and get us.
The transitional season line is usually trotted out by commetators, pundits and the well informed forum dwellers and usually only by the management to explain why the season hadn't gone well/according to plan after the event.