You can look for reasons why each of the parachute teams struggled this year. But I don’t think it’s a coincidence personally. There are so many different managers, from totally different backgrounds employing mind bogglingly varied tactics, formations and styles of play - even compared with 2 years ago. If you switch off, don’t adapt and don’t show enough flexibility, you’re screwed, Many teams have been streaky or struggled for consistency.
We’ve been lucky but if you talk to fans of quite a few clubs, they’ve never known injury crises like those they’ve experienced this season.
All of this looks more like a super competitive, gruelling division to me. What’s the evidence cited by the people banging on about it being a crap division this year? I don’t get it.