You're the Board - what are the targets and expectations for the 26/27 season?

wolfgang

If we avoid relegation we will have done well.  I rate the bookies' predictions before prejudiced fans and phony "experts" in the media, and they tip us for relegation.

SporadicAddick

Next season will be a tough gig.

I think our final position this season was better than our performances, across the full season, warranted.

Off the top of my head:-

Last minute Sheffield United
Last minute Hull
Last minute West Brom
Last minute Oxford
9 man Sheffield United

11 points from these games alone that we were fortunate to get. I believe we were luck to stay up.

This year we were massively helped by Sheffield Wednesday issues and Leicester's implosion. After the Middlesbrough win, I was looking down thinking "It's one from Portsmouth, West Brom, Leicester, and Blackburn". In the end they all got to safety before us and it was between us and Oxford, who were dead and buried a few weeks earlier. 

We came up against a remarkably poor Hull, and had we not got that win we were wholly reliant on our good friends and neighbours.

We will get new heads in, but I see nothing more than a season of lower table attrition and squeaky bums. I hope I'm wrong.

Success is, unfortunately, the same as this season. 21st or above.

NabySarr

SporadicAddick said:

Next season will be a tough gig.

I think our final position this season was better than our performances, across the full season, warranted.

Off the top of my head:-

Last minute Sheffield United
Last minute Hull
Last minute West Brom
Last minute Oxford
9 man Sheffield United

11 points from these games alone that we were fortunate to get. I believe we were luck to stay up.

This year we were massively helped by Sheffield Wednesday issues and Leicester's implosion. After the Middlesbrough win, I was looking down thinking "It's one from Portsmouth, West Brom, Leicester, and Blackburn". In the end they all got to safety before us and it was between us and Oxford, who were dead and buried a few weeks earlier. 

We came up against a remarkably poor Hull, and had we not got that win we were wholly reliant on our good friends and neighbours.

We will get new heads in, but I see nothing more than a season of lower table attrition and squeaky bums. I hope I'm wrong.

Success is, unfortunately, the same as this season. 21st or above.

Just because a goal was late doesn’t necessarily mean it wasn’t what the performance deserved. In fairness most of those examples you are right we were fortunate, but our performance against Sheff Utd away deserved a win 

We also scored a lot of late goals the season before, so that would suggest it’s not a lucky thing and it’s actually just a strength of our team that we are fitter than most and finish games strongly 

But there are also plenty of games where we played better than the points return we got. Leicester and Millwall at home early season. The run of home games at the end of the season we were pretty unlucky not to get any points at all from, some poor finishing let us down. The Wrexham keeper pulled off a worldy save in both our games against them so that’s more points we could have got on another day. 

Crispywood

SporadicAddick said:

Next season will be a tough gig.

I think our final position this season was better than our performances, across the full season, warranted.

Off the top of my head:-

Last minute Sheffield United
Last minute Hull
Last minute West Brom
Last minute Oxford
9 man Sheffield United

11 points from these games alone that we were fortunate to get. I believe we were luck to stay up.

This year we were massively helped by Sheffield Wednesday issues and Leicester's implosion. After the Middlesbrough win, I was looking down thinking "It's one from Portsmouth, West Brom, Leicester, and Blackburn". In the end they all got to safety before us and it was between us and Oxford, who were dead and buried a few weeks earlier. 

We came up against a remarkably poor Hull, and had we not got that win we were wholly reliant on our good friends and neighbours.

We will get new heads in, but I see nothing more than a season of lower table attrition and squeaky bums. I hope I'm wrong.

Success is, unfortunately, the same as this season. 21st or above.

Don’t think there’s any way you can survive and be lucky when you consider there’s 46 games. You could look at the last minute winners but similarly you can look at, Leceister, Wrexham etc where we should have picked up nods and balances out. 

I’d agree I’ll take another year of just staying up and avoiding 2nd season syndrome like Rotherham Oxford Plymouth  but if we see some better football and stay up in a more difficult league we would have porogrrssrd