Not The 20 said we'd need a good start which I thought was far from guaranteed given disrupted pre-season and this has been recognised on Loft For Words. I also like that they've recognised our recruitment has been strong (at least on paper) recently.
The Benjamin Bloom Football Channel (one of those from Gab Sutton's thread highlighting other good predictors) has us in 9th and also comments on positive recruitment process with the relevant time-stamp being 31:00 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcl7G-u5JKw This one says a lot will depend on young players stepping up and we've slowly being going backwards in terms of league position even before this year started.