Quote Originally Posted by SWv2 View Post
Yet we won more last season than both of those teams combined have won in the past 5 years.

I’m just not sure the argument that we are underperforming is correct. I think what is wrong is our expectation as fans is wrong.

I don’t even contemplate us winning the league any more when we kick off in May, I did in the past. I know where our place is and I’m relatively cool with that.

It’s the level of performance that grinds my ****. Performance from very good players but players who appear to have little or no leadership.
And that doesnt qualify as under performing??

Notice I made precisely no mention of winning the league. We are so far away from that it isnt even worth thinking about. Our goal is now to challenge (not accomplish, but challenge) for distant fourth because right now that is a long way off and looks dead in the water with a third of the season gone.

I think fourth is about where we should be- there or thereabouts. Bit higher in a good year, bit beneath in a bad one.

However, even if we were challenging for fourth right now it wouldnt change the fact that this group of players looks horribly disorganised and is performing poorly. THat alone strongly suggests that we can and should be doing better. That really should be enough to prompt change of some sort.