I'd much rather we had our ducks in a row from day one than giving the league a head start.
I'm not sure it'll happen as I still have reservations about the strength of the squad, but if we narrowly missed out on top 2 on the back of our poor start again then it'll be criminal.
We need PL football purely from a financial point of view and repeated slow starts severely impact anyone's ability to deliver that.
You saw last year how a less than fantastic Sheffield United team managed to go up on the back of a good start.