KJ always said that you can judge your progress better after ten games. Well, that’s where we are at the moment so it is worthwhile looking at how far we have progressed.
13 points after ten games gives us an average of 1.3 points per game. Multiply that by 46 games in a season and we would end up with almost 60 points in the season. Looking at last season’s final table we would end up in 16th. Last season we ended up with 69 points in eighth. These are early days and you would imagine that as the season progresses that the team would become more settled, GR will have a clearer idea of his best eleven and give us some clearer ideas about formations, our strengths and weaknesses. With my glass half full I think we have made a reasonable start but there is still work to do. It has really got to evolve and progress under GR as even TT on the Millwall Drive Home says that unless it does then he will not be our manager at the end of the season.
Contrast that with others in our league who have high aspirations for this season. WBA and Middlesborough were hot favourites for a top six finish at the end of the season. I have never been a fan of Steve Bruce who can talk a good story but they have spent a shed load, have our talisman in Jed on £40k a week, and are still playing poorly. They only have ten points and unless things improve for them I can only see one outcome and that is the tin tack for Bruce. He will just walk away with another big pay off and wait until another big club with sign him up to be their manager.
Middlesborough find themselves in the bottom three with only ten points. Wilder is thought to be the business but he is certainly not showing it yet. A couple more defeats and he could get the elbow and they could be looking at Big Mick or even Scott Parker to get them out of the brown stuff. We are not firing on all cylinders yet but give it time and we might well be upping our game and moving up the table. Some of the people of Fat Dan’s channel are full of doom and gloom and I do wonder whether they were watching the same game as me yesterday. I can only assume that they consumed far too much of that fizzy alcohol watching the game and by the time Dan gets to them they have had a couple more and their interview is full of brown stuff. Let’s wait and see what happens!
13 points after ten games gives us an average of 1.3 points per game. Multiply that by 46 games in a season and we would end up with almost 60 points in the season. Looking at last season’s final table we would end up in 16th. Last season we ended up with 69 points in eighth. These are early days and you would imagine that as the season progresses that the team would become more settled, GR will have a clearer idea of his best eleven and give us some clearer ideas about formations, our strengths and weaknesses. With my glass half full I think we have made a reasonable start but there is still work to do. It has really got to evolve and progress under GR as even TT on the Millwall Drive Home says that unless it does then he will not be our manager at the end of the season.
Contrast that with others in our league who have high aspirations for this season. WBA and Middlesborough were hot favourites for a top six finish at the end of the season. I have never been a fan of Steve Bruce who can talk a good story but they have spent a shed load, have our talisman in Jed on £40k a week, and are still playing poorly. They only have ten points and unless things improve for them I can only see one outcome and that is the tin tack for Bruce. He will just walk away with another big pay off and wait until another big club with sign him up to be their manager.
Middlesborough find themselves in the bottom three with only ten points. Wilder is thought to be the business but he is certainly not showing it yet. A couple more defeats and he could get the elbow and they could be looking at Big Mick or even Scott Parker to get them out of the brown stuff. We are not firing on all cylinders yet but give it time and we might well be upping our game and moving up the table. Some of the people of Fat Dan’s channel are full of doom and gloom and I do wonder whether they were watching the same game as me yesterday. I can only assume that they consumed far too much of that fizzy alcohol watching the game and by the time Dan gets to them they have had a couple more and their interview is full of brown stuff. Let’s wait and see what happens!