WHERE WILL CITY BE AT THE END OF THE SEASON:

Alright this season hasnt even started yet but I reckon that if we get Slade out and get a decent number of signings in. We COULD challenge for promotion.

Remember we have one of the best budgets in the League, and although Tan is a tight bugger I believe with the right signings we could be genuine contenders.

We Also need to hang on to our KEY PLAYERS ( i.e , Manga and Macheda )
There was also no need to let Kevin Naughton go


HOWEVER- If we stick with Slade ( Who is way out of his depth in this league ) we will be in the same mid table position where finished last season.

Still in championship!

Still in championship!

Hope Slade likes digging his own grave if Tan keeps him

Top six with Slade.

Heard a few people mention we have one of the biggest budgets. Interested to know how much that is. Anyone able to help me out as I have no idea how much has been made available to Slade for new players, wages etc.

Top six with Slade.

Bottom six with Slade.

Top six with Slade.

Bottom six with Slade.

Kills me to say this but maybe going down to league 1 will be best for us. Alright most of our top players will leave but at keast we will be able to rebuild and come back even stronger

Still in championship!

Agree mate

Still in championship!

Id take that's instantly.

6th and play off winners

6th and play off winners

Would love this mate

I genuinely believe Slade will be gone by October.

All depends who manages us.

At present mid table would be about right, we need to be very careful as Slade has the pedigree to take us all the way ......

Down

Playoffs

I think we will be around 11th to 14th. It could be a reversal on last season with a decent start but will fall away.No real pace in the team and no creativity in midfield a real problem.

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Still in championship!

I think you're definitely right on this occasion Allan.

Bottom 3

17th or there abouts, fingers crossed

If Slade is still manager - about 15th.

Bottom 6 with Slade in charge, New manager playoffs

Alright this season hasnt even started yet but I reckon that if we get Slade out and get a decent number of signings in. We COULD challenge for promotion.

Remember we have one of the best budgets in the League, and although Tan is a tight bugger I believe with the right signings we could be genuine contenders.

We Also need to hang on to our KEY PLAYERS ( i.e , Manga and Macheda )
There was also no need to let Kevin Naughton go


HOWEVER- If we stick with Slade ( Who is way out of his depth in this league ) we will be in the same mid table position where finished last season.

If you regard Macheda as a key player I see little hope for us. Or for you come to that

Top 6 we have the squad

Top 6 we have the squad

Based on the current squad anything above top 12 would be a bonus. Based on the style of football we played last season I think a 14-20th position is likely.

I cannot work out out some fans believe that we can get anywhere near the top 6 based on our abysmal performances after Christmas, lack of goal power, lack of pace and lack of creative midfielders. For many of the games we couldn't even string a couple of passes together and on occasions we would had 1 attempt on goalie 45 minutes. Bournemouth & watford played attacking attractive football under good managers, we did neither and do not have the same quality of manager.

I am hoping that Slade brings in a bit of quality to give us a fighting chance on the pitch and to bring back the missing 5-8K season ticket holders.

I went for 12th to 15th at the start of last season, and I don't think our squad is any better now than it was then. Looking at our squad, I doubt that it will strike terror into any of our opponents, and I will go for the same again, somewhere around mid table, possibly 14th or 15th.

If we do get 2 or 3 decent signings play offs are a possibility,but otherwise 10th-12th

I think there are a number of factors which need to be considered and based on last season there are reasons why we were not able to live up to our "Favorite" tag.
1. Ole's crazy approach to the whole thing for the first 10 games put us up shit creek.
2. Ole's bonkers recruitment in the summer undermined the whole playing staff.
3. Lack of player fitness.
4. When Slade came in he had to trim the squad, and still needs to do more of this. This did not help player confidence (when this was going on was our worst part of the season).
5. Too many strikers not scoring goals ( Alf, Mechada etc) and the only one that did, was so lazy that it was like playing with 10 men (Jones)
6. The end of season form, which if replicated over the season would have put us very close to the play-offs.

Now it my belief that last season was a massive restructure of the club and towards the end of the season it was starting to come right (still an area which needs to still improve).

Before anyone accuses me of liking Slade I will state that I will give him a chance this season on a level playing field, as he had to operate under very difficult circumstances last season, however I believe that with only the slightest number of new players and if we could land Ameobi that would be a good step forward then we could be at the top end of the table.
And of course we are in BLUE