Im confident we have a squad now to be nowhere near relegation. FWIW this would be my starting lineup based on what we have so far (subject to Knibbs coming)
The Championship will again be three leagues in one. I’m expecting/ hoping that we’re at the top end of the bottom league of three. Anything better than that would be absolutely fantastic.
I think we'll finish somewhere between 14th - 18th which I would take all day long. The biggest thing is making sure we're in the Championship next season and building from there. If we look at teams who I think finish below us I would put Sheffield Wednesday, Hull, Stoke, Oxford and Preston with a couple more I definitely think we can finish above like Portsmouth, Wrexham and Derby
When Saturday Comes predictions for upcoming season-
You've screen grabbed a the crop in progress, excellent 😂
I reckon we stay up now. Before the transfers happened I thought 21st absolute best case (was more leaning 23rd/24th), everything goes right scenario, now I am fairly confident we can stay up after our transfer business.
I am gonna say we finish above Hull, Wednesday, Pompey, Preston, Oxford, & potentially Stoke & QPR. 17th-19th finish is my guess.
On topic though, think all of these predictions are rubbish because they have to submitted way before players sign/leave
They are almost all complete nonsense which serve only to fill the void in actual football news during the pre-season.
To accurately predict which team is going to finish where in a league you’d need a pretty intimate understanding of each club and what’s going on there. No one person has this level of knowledge for 24 (let alone 72 or 92) teams so unless you’ve got an enormous squad of journalists and are doing some sort of consensus based scoring of each teams chances then it’s not worth the paper it’s written on. What these things tend to be is some poor bloke(s) who have had a cursory look at the transfer ins and outs at each club, maybe a glance at a Wikipedia once or twice, and then tried to make some assumptions based on those superficial data points.
You can call this stuff prediction if you like, but in reality it’s just guessing.
I reckon we'll do well to be within the range of 16th-19th... Wednesday, Hull, PNE, Oxford, Wrexham & Stoke will be below us.. maybe Watford & Bristol City too.
Can’t believe the Championship is massively stronger than last time we got promoted and to be fair it took a catalogue of misfortunate events to send us down on the last day of the season.
Very confident of a mid table finish at least. Although all three promoted sides stayed up last season, I wouldn’t be surprised if one or two of them suffered “second season syndrome”
Oxford scream of second season syndrome. Their current starting front 4 managed only 25 G/A all season, if u add up all their minutes it’s the equivalent of 25 G/A in 95 games which is nothing short of dreadful. Also include the fact their back 4 consists of Spencer who TC had his best game of the season against and Currie who we dunked on 3 times. Not to mention A.Campbell may be joining them because they’re that desperate personally think they will be joining Hull and Wednesday
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I reckon we stay up now. Before the transfers happened I thought 21st absolute best case (was more leaning 23rd/24th), everything goes right scenario, now I am fairly confident we can stay up after our transfer business.
I am gonna say we finish above Hull, Wednesday, Pompey, Preston, Oxford, & potentially Stoke & QPR. 17th-19th finish is my guess.