If we finish 16th it’ll be the best ever league position under Sisu and the first time they’ve moved us forward relative to where they took us over.
Totally agree, Certainly continuing on an upward trajectory which is why imo it was so crucial we stayed up this season. I know we're not there yet, but in order to keep the momentum of being at the Ricoh, higher number of fans etc that we have continued progress and maintain the league status. About the 4th consecutive season we've had something to celebrate at the end of improvement (could even argue 5th with the Checkatrade and changing regime despite the relegation).We're we just shit before or conditioned to expect to be shit after years of doing nothing in the Premier League. I don't remember as much whinging back then.
I've been disappointed with a lot of this season, but have I been conditioned to expect success over the last few years now, which is causing the whinging?
Edit: Sounds like an extremely convoluted telegraph headline
To me it just feels like we are a totally different prospect from back then when happy to not lose most of the time.
It's strange how MR has turned our late season form on its head, in L2 a late spurt into the playoffs and then the glorious semi and final games. Last season our results from Christmas onwards were phenomenal, and now this season's late run (hopefully it continues)I'm basing this purely off memory but it felt like we used to do the same thing every year where we'd start really strongly and then utterly collapse after Christmas and barely pick up another point. Meant that despite constantly finishing 17th we were never under that much threat of relegation in most seasons and there was always early season optimism that we were going to do well.
Yep - people used to say we come down with the decorations. I think when we beat Liverpool just before Christmas we went 2nd or 3rd one season in the prem and I remember another where we were top after approx 4 or 5 games until we let in an early goal away and started singing "top for a minute, we were top for a minute" in usual City gallows humour.I'm basing this purely off memory but it felt like we used to do the same thing every year where we'd start really strongly and then utterly collapse after Christmas and barely pick up another point. Meant that despite constantly finishing 17th we were never under that much threat of relegation in most seasons and there was always early season optimism that we were going to do well.
He's also kept our head above water consistently. I could be wrong but don't think we've actually slipped into the bottom 3 all season or if we have only temporarily until we caught our game up.It's strange how MR has turned our late season form on its head, in L2 a late spurt into the playoffs and then the glorious semi and final games. Last season our results from Christmas onwards were phenomenal, and now this season's late run (hopefully it continues)
When I first read that I thought that can’t be right, surely we did better when Coleman was here and SISU splashed the cash in the early days. Yet...If we finish 16th it’ll be the best ever league position under Sisu and the first time they’ve moved us forward relative to where they took us over.
I'm basing this purely off memory but it felt like we used to do the same thing every year where we'd start really strongly and then utterly collapse after Christmas and barely pick up another point. Meant that despite constantly finishing 17th we were never under that much threat of relegation in most seasons and there was always early season optimism that we were going to do well.
As we're an innovative team,well history tells us that,how about the first team to play in full length thermal leggings,sleeves,gloves and bobble hats.I thought of us as quite literally a fair weather team.
Sunny summer, early autumn tended to do well then when the nights drew in and it got cold we went to absolute pieces. The April time when it warmed up and the days got longer we put on a spurt to avoid relegation.
Still maintain if football had been a summer sport Cov would've been going for trophies!
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