Quote Originally Posted by Omegstrat6 View Post
No doubting Corberan's achievements given the limitations he has had but still get fed up with so many of the London-centric press claiming we are "punching above our weight". How long have we held 5th place? This isn't down to luck and it isn't undeserved. We are all very aware of the shortcomings of players/tactics at times but we have earnt our league position and that's down to the efforts of players and management/coaching staff. No different than when we were in the Premiership and MOTD would put any successes we had against the traditional "top" teams as being primarily down to their failings rather than how well Albion had played. Guess this won't change anytime soon but still pi sses me off and would be nice for them to give the credit where it is due for once.

Totally agree Omeg and I don’t think we are punching whatsoever. Leicester on our board made a good point when he said we have some quality players.

1. We only just missed out on the play offs last season after an awful start.
2. Wallace and Swift were considered excellent players when we got them.
3. A few of our players have Premier experience.
4. Corberon has developed Kipre, Mowatt and Fellows.

No - I expected us to be challenging for the play offs as the side is better than last season when we JUST missed out on the play offs. O’Shea would not even get in our side now!

So why would some not have expected the play offs or there abouts?