Quote Originally Posted by surge View Post
One thing that has kept strong has been the dressing room and while that may not be enough in the end, we may even finish 19th, I think we've had a good season overall and learnt a lot from it. We were told at the start it might be like Burnley's first year and think we would have taken that then.

We shouldn't forget that our captain almost died; our biggest signing sadly was lost; NML, Peltier, Camarrasa, Bamba and Patterson all missed multiple games with injuries and now Ralls is missing the end of the season; we've had a number of decisions go harshly against us in big games especially during this run-in....there are things we could have done to improve things (a back-up RB, more depth in defensive midfield, another creative midfielder, another goal-scorer all to reduce risk of fatigue based injury) but many things have been outside of our control.

Oh, and we're still in with a shout of staying up.
Agree with this, we're still in with a chance of staying up with 2 games to go , albeit a very minimal chance. We've lost a lot of games 23 out of 36 but have given it a go, at least until Saturday. That was very disappointing playing defensively against a team that has a poor defence, as could be seen by the last few minutes of injury time when we could have scored on more than one occasion.

Murphy and Reid were top championship players, they weren't seen as awful signings at the time. I couldn't understand why we didn't sign a right back ( though in fairness to Peltier he,s been fine in recent games in terms of defensive duties) and signing a premier league standard striker was always going to cost money the club didn't have or weren't willing to spend. Reid did get over 20 goals in the championship last season so we should have found a system or way of accommodating him more often as probably the only natural goal scorer we had in the squad at the start of the season.

Despite so many defeats we could have stayed up if we had won on Saturday, in a game that was very winnable