A week before season starts - predict our finishing position?

[MickaelDebevePhenomenal]

I try not to make predictions after my "we will be up by christmas" line in the ill fated Strachan Jockification experiment!

 

[morrissey]

So, who said 8th?

Me !!

 

[Laughing]

Think I said 3 to 6 as I recall. I am always optimistic.

 

[Ironops]

Gutted I messed this thread and didnt make a prediction - I would have said 11th and so we've done a bit better than I expected.

 

[NoloBoro]

2nd

 

[Starbuck]

This is interesting to look back on. For next year I would request OP to wait until night before first game or day after transfer window has closed. Too many early replies have caveats related to who we may buy. !!

 

[Scrote]

any grouping is arbitrary, but there are those who thought we were going up or in the play offs, they have been proven optimists

those who thought we would fall a little short, the realists

those who believed it was a season of struggle in the bottom half, the pessimists who time has proven wrong

Using position as the only metric doesn't take into account a whole host of other variables that have affected our (and others) season.

And surely you can't lump automatic and play-offs together in any serious analysis?

Taking nothing else into account a better split would be:

1-2 Automatic - Optimistic
3-8 Play-off contenders - Realistic
9-15 Missed the boat - Pessimistic

Where we actually finish might be 'reality' (and the table doesn't lie etc.) but predictions of play-off contention were the closest to that reality.

A couple more games from Hackney, Latte Lath and Dieng would probably have been enough to push us into 6 or above.

We've underacheived slightly due to a ridiculous injury list, and the departures of Crooks & Rogers, but you'd need a whole bunch of predictions with caveats to take into account what might happen through the season.

I doubt Rogers to Villa or Crooks to USA was in anyones wildest imagination.

 

[BoroMart]

Using position as the only metric doesn't take into account a whole host of other variables that have affected our (and others) season.

Nobody is arguing otherwise, but this with this being a thread on where people expected us to come that’s what we are discussing, instead of tangents

And surely you can't lump automatic and play-offs together in any serious analysis?

Taking nothing else into account a better split would be:

1-2 Automatic - Optimistic
3-8 Play-off contenders - Realistic
9-15 Missed the boat - Pessimistic

But we didn’t finish in play-offs so with hindsight, that wasnt realistic c and calling people pessimist's who said we would finish 9th doesn’t match reality. Anyway, the above categorising seems, erm, arbitrary

Where we actually finish might be 'reality' (and the table doesn't lie etc.) but predictions of play-off contention were the closest to that reality.

That makes no sense. Predicting something that ultimately wasn’t achievable isn’t a sense of reality, it’s the dictionary definition of an optimistic viewpoint.

 

[Laughing]

It's a bit of fun lads. It's nigh impossible before business is complete to predict where we will finish with any credibility.

However, we'll finish top 3 next season.... FACT.