Season expectations 2017-18

[brentastonb6]

"We're going to smash this league" John Terry.
So for me it's this too because love him or loathe him the man's a winner , he's our captain and he's going to be out there on the pitch doing  the captains job. I can't see him putting up with tosspot performances from our players and I can't see him holding back on telling them and the management team what they need to do. It was often said that at Chelsea he, Lampard and Drogba exerted too much influence- well I say let's have some of that type of influence here please because it seemed to do ok there didn't it ?

[mr underhill]

isn't that what lots of folk said last season?

[sid1964]

i hope that is not an actual quote from Mr Terry, because if it is, then he is very much mistaken

I said last season we would finish between 8-13th and for this season I can see us finishing higher, hopefully play offs, but I still don't think we will get promoted (and I have renewed my season ticket again!)

[brian green]

Other than the two second halves against Brighton we smashed nobody last season and I cannot see Terry making that much difference.  Not quite so turgid as last season but thud and blunder will see us falling short of top six.

[Three Spires Villa]

Between 8th and 12th

[AV5nobs]

First.

[CJ]

Hope I'm proved wrong but I can't see it being much different to last season to be honest. We've got much the same squad with the exception of Terry, with players who performed well for their previous clubs but seemed to regress here, and we're still pretty pedestrian with no apparent set pattern of play. Apart from Kodjia it's difficult to see where the goals will come from, in spite of the fact that McCormack scored 71 goals in the three seasons before coming to us. If Bruce can get us playing quicker and more creatively from midfield I'd be more confident of going up, but as it stands I'm not very optimistic. Even the Aston Expressway is shut for the first couple of games same as last year!

[UK Redsox]

We can think big,
We can't stay the same
There's got be changes...

We've got big dreams,
Dreaming all about, new sensations,
Great Expectations

[KRS]

I can't see it being much different to last season to be honest. We've got much the same squad with the exception of Terry, with players who performed well for their previous clubs but seemed to regress here, and we're still pretty pedestrian with no apparent set pattern of play.

That pretty much sums it up for me. No significant changes on the pitch in terms of players and Bruce appears to be no clearer how he wants to play or get the best out of the players at his disposal.

[Nelly]

We have some okay names in at our club but I don't think we're much of a team. If we can figure out a style of play then we may do well, but if we're anything like last season (dull, unimaginative, ponderous and consistently out-footballed by other teams) then I think we'll be midtable again.

[Legion]

8th

[Bottom Right 89]

Champions with 100 points +, NO EXCUSES.

Time for this football club to stop dicking around and deliver.

[Damo70]

I think the top six will consist of (in no particular order) any six of seven teams. Villa, Boro, Cardiff, Leeds, Reading and the two Sheffield clubs.

[cdbearsfan]

Aren't Wolves spending loads of money? They could be contenders.

[Gareth]

We do have largely the same squad but we have to hope that for one they will come back physically fitter than they started last season...that would make a difference and would also hopefully reflect in the tempo of play.

Like everything at every club at this stage it's all guess work but there are no excuses from us this summer, the manager has been there long enough have it his way, the DoF has been there long enough to have a genuine influence and we aren't getting 10 new players.