Been watching a few different podcasts lately where the presenters are revisiting their pre season predictions and making kind of half term reports on each team and all but one of them now have us going down. I’d not been too bothered by this until I listened to one half an hour ago who put forward an argument that I find very hard to argue with.
He started by going back a year to halfway through last season when he said that Birmingham were about twentieth at the time and then through the rest of the season they picked up enough points to see them end up seventeenth or eighteenth usually. He used this information to back his argument that, even at the bottom of the Championship, sides are much better organized when it comes to things like recruitment of players and managers that it’s no longer solely about what you do, you have to be aware that the teams around you are better than you’d expect and so are capable of beating good sides on their day.
He then said that, by contrast, Cardiff have stood still or worse, whereas standards, even in the lower reaches of the division have improved.
I watch us play lately and get more optimistic, but for weeks now I’ve been struggling to come up with three teams worse than us - we need seven or eight more wins I reckon in twenty one matches, but, in twenty five so far, we’ve won just twenty per cent of them.
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Originally Posted by Michael Morris
, hopefully be closer to the top than the bottom ??
