Yep - He's gone and done it again...
Last season we finished miles out after being within a few points the previous few seasons.
Historical efforts (shared on CL):In 17/18 I predicted 73 points and we finished on 71.
In 18/19 I predicted 70 points and we finished a huge 18 ahead of that! I did say in that thread that a couple of decent loans coming in could change things... Then Bielik and Cullen arrived.
In 19/20
I predicted 55 points we finished on 48. I prefaced that prediction with the statement that I thought without properly replacing Cullen & Bielik we would struggle to break 46 points. We replaced one well and were unfortunate with the latter replacement's (Sam Field) injury. This coupled with the covid issues probably cost us a few points.
In 20/21 I predicted 88 points and we finished on 74, we had the embargo, more covid issues and then a wantaway manager, but Adkins finished strong.
Let's hope we're back on track this season:85 Points
In the last 5 FULL seasons that would have got (in reverse order)
3rd 20/21,
5th 18/19,
4th 17/18,
3rd 16/17
2nd 15/16
Comments
In the last couple of years I thought it'd be interesting to share, this led to last season @johnnybev1987 and I put in a challenge of furthest from the actual end of season total gave £20 to the upbeats.
I'm predicting a sluggish start due to having a poor transfer policy over the past 3 months.
Either way so long as the points tally is close, I'm not too concerned! 😉
I feel a bit optimistic based on the total alone but tried to be as non bias as possible, i find it hard to predict losses and default to 1, did you find that? i note this wasn't helpful so i have just shared back on the open doc.
I think Johnny and I are equally far off.