Hang on...you two can adopt the unfamiliar role of ‘happy clappers’ as much as you like if it makes you feel better.
I’m not being unduly negative, stubborn or gloomy, although I am perhaps guilty of realism.
I still hope, just as you do Swale, that we won’t get any sort of points deduction and I remain optimistic that we won’t.

Having said that...the scenario was always going to be that the 2019/20 season was going to be a season of rebuilding under a new manager unfamiliar with the demands of the Championship.
Should (that means ‘IF’) next season is to be derailed from the off by a significant points deduction I’ll be disappointed. I’d anticipated good things with Cocu being able to assemble a team that he believes is fit to challenge in the Championship and IF we face a hefty points deduction then those plans seem likely to be on hold for another season.

That is all I’m saying - not ‘worrying’ about. I save that for more serious matters.
Seems to me like realism, but then this time last year had anyone predicted Keoghgate, Rooney being our captain, or football having to be played behind closed doors they’d have been declared insane...so who knows what will happen?