We don’t score and we conceed goals - it’s only going to end one way.It’s funny isn’t it, that if we’d lost out in the play offs and assembled the current squad for this Championship season, I think we’d have been doing OK, almost certainly no one would have been suggesting a change of manager?
But automatic promotion, it seems has instilled unrealistic expectations in some of our supporters. After a measly £26m transfer spend, some are surprised at our lack of impact on the ‘best league in the world’. The fact is that we are in a relegation fight with about ten teams, so until we’ve played everyone at least once, we won’t really get a semi accurate picture of our chances.
But whatever, Heckingbottom hasn’t been financially backed to take a fair crack at the EPL, I think you’ve really got to feel for the bloke, he is the very epitome of a ‘victim of his own success’. Were he to be sacked, based on this seasons performance, it would be an absolute travesty after what he has achieved.
The chairman doesn’t want us - so sacking the manager is pointless.
We’ve also list team identity.
We are the weakest of the 3 promoted teams.
Burnley added to their squad.
Luton kept theirs together.
We sold our two best players and added some quality but lost some cohesiveness.