Quote: craig hkr "Exactly as i see it. Even under Sheens and a terrible injury list we fell just short in umpteen games last few year.Ok a league table won't lie over a season but hearing how we barely trained and player power ruled we still could have took more league points Smiths tougher regime combined with squad depth could/should see us holding our own. No real expectations but just a general feeling we are finally on right track.'"
I hope so and, as always, there are plenty of things that we can interpret positively at this stage of pre-season.
The attitude and mindset that I hope Smith can engender could be key.
Match day results set the tone and shape perceptions, but I think we lost other important stuff this decade too. Bringing in somebody as downbeat as Sandercock when shifting the focus from the team to the club, the Chairman losing any enjoyment he’d derived from the role (losing hundreds of thousands a year will do that, I suppose)... everything felt a bit low energy... until Peacock and everything imploding. I wonder if i’ll ever get over that. Desperation at least woke us from torpidity for a year or two under Sheens, but it re-emerging in 2019 was dispiriting.