FNQ

One of the reasons that we were actually 4 points better off this season compared to last was that we managed to beat the bottom side, who we would all agree were sh1t, they only won 4 games all season, twice. The season before we dropped the 4 points by drawing twice with Wigan who finished bottom albeit with a lot more points. Points may well make prizes, but in my view to be optimistic and call this season out as somehow being successful / progressive with all that has gone on, which now includes a final day thumping with a revert-to-type style performance against a side well below us, is just wrong.

Out of genuine interest, why do you think Manning is better than Johnson?

From a points perspective we’ve finished this season further away from the top 6 and closer to the bottom 3 than where we finished last season. In fact, we are now, within 1 point, as far away from the top 6 as we are away from relegation. If we continue to trend progressively as Tinnion sees it, we’ll be going down in a couple of years time. The fact that he was unprofessional enough to post that tweet just about sums up our plight.

Could be us… there’s a lot of synergies, our owner is known in the football world to be Standing Still and we have Dumb and Dumber Still making the big decisions. We need to also remember that our HC is Still Here..

Not sure how he can with pretty much the same squad?

Too easy, it’s Jon Lansdown innit?

Interestingly last season we finished 10 points off of the top 6 and 15 points above the bottom 3. With only the Stoke game to go, we are again 10 points off of the top 6 and 15 points above the bottom 3.. spooky. In reality the overall average quality of the teams in any division for a specific season can make it easier or harder to rack up the points. For example, Wigan finished bottom last season on 39 points and held us to a draw twice, so this season we have 4 more points in the bag versus a much worse performing bottom team. Having said that, our recent run of results is certainly encouraging and our performance against Norwich in particular was excellent and yesterday against a rubbish Rotherham team we were dominating and professional. So as KITR mentioned in the original post hopefully the momentum will continue and carry over into the new season, a good early transfer window will certainly set the scene.

Yep, offers made to Tommy and Joe.. no one else was mentioned.

Just to add.. new offers for TC and JW, but no mention of Matty James.

BT confirmed that Joe had been offered a new contract pre match on RTV.

It’s a funny old game.. when we drew 1-1 at their place I thought that they were easily the worst team that we had played so far… At our place recently we were lucky to get a point as they were easily the better side, that was their one point in the last available nine keeping our unbelievable unbeaten run intact.

Good work again JB… I seem to recall that we signed John Galley from Rotherham back in the day. I think we’ll smash em… 1-0.

Could even be a straight swap with Burnley for Twine.. Both clubs could reason that they have traded £5m rated players?

Good point, solid performance..

Great goal..