I'd agree we would have to be really bad to finish genuine 'mid table', and regularly on here over the seasons in NL the comment pops up that "we will finish mid table". I know NCM is a cauldron of negativity at times but I don't know where it comes from? We haven't ever looked like finishing in mid table in any of the seasons regardless what the doomsayers post. We've finished 3rd, 5th and 5th without (sadly) really ever troubling the top of the table nor falling to midtable.

When we have been briefly out of the playoffs during the season I've noticed a sense of panic and increased doom that we won't or can't get back in and finish in the playoffs but in reality it's never been a concern.

5th isn't midtable, never has been, never will be. Unless someone thinks pre-playoff format that anything below 3rd should be classed as midtable all the way down to a place above the relegation zone