Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:51 am
I think we have learned many lessons which we can use if we're still in the same level next season. This is probably one of them, but it's not much good worrying about it until we know what's happening.
I think we've shown against Chelsea and Liverpool that we can give these teams a real game if we don't make defensive mistakes all over the place of the sort you can get away with at lower levels. I'm afraid that we also need to learn how to hold the ball when that's needed too, even thought it's against the system really. One thing I've found frustrating is when we're defending a lead with a few minutes to go but we're still punting the ball up the field and chasing it so we leave ourselves open.
Let's hope we get the chance to put this into practise because I think we'd be a lot more competitive with the benefit of experience. We've made premiership players rather than buying them and that's taken time.
I'd say it really is 50/50 but the real question is how we'll react if it unfortunately goes the other way. Do we retain the players we can and continue progress back, or do we sell everyone and melt away ? Might not be necessary , but even a setback like that can be gotten over