I keep hearing that Fulham deserved to be promoted more than us, and the majority of that is down to the way that they played.

Looking back at the positions in the table I'm amazed at how consistent we were, for 15% of the season we were in 1st, for 52% we were in 2nd, 22% in 3rd, and 11% in 4th. At no point of the season were we lower than 4th position.

Now to compare that with Fulham, they were never 1st, they were 2nd for 2% of the season, and they were in the playoff positions for 37% of the season. So for 61% of the season they were outside of the playoffs, and for 26% of the season they were bottom half of the table. Fulham didn't get into the playoff places until the 29th game of the season, didn't get to 3rd until the 38th game, and reached 2nd at the 42nd game - they stayed there for 1 round of matches.

Yes they were probably easier on the eye, and yes they did have a great run and pushed us all the way, but as we can see it's about a 46 game season not a a 23 game season.