Quote: lampyboy "I think you are all playing it down a little and hope the club have slightly more ambition.
When you have ben part of a club with no ambition and very little hope for so long it's easy to lower your expectations.
I honestly believe the club will challenge for the top six'"
Top 10-8 and I will be made up.
You have to remember most of our new signings from this year are young, and haven’t played at this level never mind SL level.
The philosophy this year has been to take players out of a part time environment and give them a year in a full time environment to get them up to speed for a potential return to SL.
There are a lot of unknowns in the squad for 2025 even with some of the higher profile signings and lots of them are lads who have been on the fringes of match day 17 with their current squads.
The 2 marquee lads (so far) are very exciting and players we could only dream of signing 12 months ago and obviously bring proven quality to the squad and I am aware that we will have done our homework but we will be running with 2 new halves hopefully a new 9 and maybe even a new 1.
Mr Carter did some very positive things for the club however I used to cringe with some of his comments prior to the season saying he felt we had a real chance of a top 5 finish etc, it probably worked to get a few more few the gate early doors but soon caused probably more to turn away when it was clear that wasn’t going to be the case.
If we can consolidate our position being comfortably out of the bottom 2 plus the improved facilities etc it will be easier to attract players for the next tier of quality. We have our marquee guys but we have had to pay over market value to get them, however they are statement signings.
Cas due to their uncertain position are really struggling to recruit for next year with targets signing elsewhere for less money than Cas are offering because they are worried about the clubs status next year.
The positivity at the club at the moment is fantastic but to keep this momentum up I think it’s also very important for the club to maybe under promise in 2025 and over deliver. 6th or 7th in 2025 would be a remarkable return to SL in my opinion.
8th-10th for me is more realistic and quality play even in defeat, that we will invariably see a lot more of again in 2025, would be a great platform for the club to really kick on to that next level in 2026-2027.