I'm confident that we'll be up there; finished 5 points off the play-offs last season and have already added the experience at the back that we were missing last season.
As a relatively impartial outsider its more or less impossible to assess your chances. When you look at your 2011 form its clear to see that there are some pretty deep-lying problems and that some major rebuilding needs to take place. But a new managerial appointment and clearing out a load of players is a good start.
The celebrity managerial appointment is anyones guess. I'd be inclined to say that there will be an adjustment period (again, how long this takes is anyones guess - a few months, six months, a season) whilst he gets used to actually being a manager for the first time, and then also becoming familiar with a division that I suspect he knows little about. He could also hit the ground running and be a complete natural, or it could go really badly. I would't put any bets on you, put it that way.
It'll be interesting to see who you sign, and that might unmuddy the waters a little.
...and left them with an unfinished ground in one of the most dreary and inaccessible parts of town, right next to local sewerage treatment works.
Great legacy, that. Glad it's not us. The experience of match days there must be hellish...so in that context, I guess 3,000 season tickets isn't bad. The 3,000 all deserve a f**king medal.
Kassam is a complete cunt and I'd take the Manor back any day with its 7 stands because it was a proper old football ground, but the new ground isn't the dreadful experience that you exaggerate it to be. You never smell the sewage works for instance, I don't even know where they are. I'd guess where the big Thames Water signs are, which is a little way from the ground.
Our attendances can't be knocked really, based on last seasons averages we are the 7th best supported side outside of the Championship and have solid away numbers.
