by Snowflake Royal »
28 Jan 2020 17:55
URZZZZ Old Man Andrews Snowflake Royal Yawn.
League is key to doing well next season. 8th to 13th is realistic and would make a bigger difference to next season than 14th to 16th and a huge difference compared to 17th - 21st.
Certainly more than a 5th / QF / SF or maybe even Final would IMO. Though the money would certainly be a bonus
Were you preemptively yawning about the post you were about to type?
Nothing is key to how we do next season, the play off final season under Stam is clear evidence of that. We finished like 19th the season before it.
The FA Cup is sacred and of the highest importance.
Just to add to that, we didn’t win any of our last 7 games in that 15/16 season (0-1-6 was the record) so I’m not sure how well you end a season correlates to how well you start the next one
The Championship, in general is just a weird league, you can easily go from 18th from one season to 5th in the next and it’s never really that surprising
I haven't done the stats, but I'd be very wary of isolated outliers if I were you.
Of the last few seasons, how many have we finished well and how many poorly... how many resulted in a much better performance the next season.
Because it's arguably no strong finishes (maybe PO year, but that ended on a real downer), lots of poor finishes that translated into poor seasons and one that translated into a great one - with a manager change too.
I'm simply saying if you play the odds, finishing stronger has a better correlation with a good following season than finishing poorly. And similarly with league position.