Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
Perhaps because he is a realist? Whilst we are operating under an EFL approved business plan, we are reliant on free transfers or players with a low valuation. Funnily enough strikers that can get 15 plus goals a season are rarely available either on a free or for a small transfer fee!

So we are where we are, good to see we aren't leaking goals and I think we will start scoring and winning games, the margins as has been said are very fine, we could and should have won on Saturday. As for being pretty, well I'll settle for ugly and effective.
Hang on...last year we finished a creditable, if ultimately disappointing in the circumstances, 7th. Even you have to admit that we are in a better financial situation this year, with fewer restrictions, than last...so how is it ‘realistic’ to accept mid table or, by implication, unrealistic to expect an improvement on last season?

I agree it’s good to see that we are no longer leaking goals and I’ll accept that successful teams know how to ‘win ugly’...we aren’t though...at least not at home...and that is the point.