Is this a Jonathan Kodjia thread?
Well, i for one had renewed hope once the final whistle went on the last day. We'd gone from bottom 6 to 9th within a couple of months and had a new striker in Darren Bent averaging more than a goal every 2 games. Obviously as the summer went on hope turned to despair as we appointed McLeish as manager, sold Young and Downing and replaced them with an injury prone loanee Jenas and a (to put it mildly) less than enthusiastic Charles Nzogbia who looked as though he must have had a gun pointed at his head when he signed his contract. We also offloaded a 40 year old Friedel and replaced him with a 35 year old Given on a 3 year deal and a massive salary. This really was the start of our problems.