Quote Originally Posted by laddo View Post
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
Quote Originally Posted by laddo View Post
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
We will probably always be in or around the play-offs, but that's as far as it gets. The teams that get promoted have players who know how to see the games out. We have no one with that mentality in our team. What we do have is a bunch of players who are comfortable with the ball at their feet, when we dont have it we just dont have the physicality to win back possession.
Our defence is made up of square pegs in round holes. Apart from Cameron, there is no other player with the height and strength to challenge the numerous crosses that come into the box.. We have signed too many diminutive players who are just not up to the rigors of this league...Also, we have spent monies on players that wouldn't get into the local pub team..
The solution is.... We need a manager with previous success of getting out of this crap league. We need to abandon this tippy tappy knock it around the back crap and do what it takes to get us out....