One thing I think we often skim over when looking at the final Championship league table, is that when we had everyone back from injury, and a defence of competent loan (now mostly permanent) recruits, we were by far the best team in the Championship. THAT is the side we're building on now. I don't see us a club who scraped into the playoffs and got lucky, I see us a TEAM who blew away all before them when at full strength. I have every confidence in Smith to build on that team. My only concern is that there will be teams who are simply better at playing good football than we are at the current time, and how Smith will set us up against them. From what he said earlier in the summer, we're not one of those promoted sides looking ahead to where we'll get points and writing off matches against the top teams, but I also fear for us going toe-to-toe against a Man City, for example. I still think lower mid-table is realistic, top half certainly possible
Be interesting to see how he sets up for the first couple of games, Spurs away (do we go toe to toe with them?) and Bournemouth home (hope we go all out attack). Its going to be very interesting.
Apparently this is the first time since the 2010/11 season that Spurs have been at home on the opening day.
Quote from: PeterWithesShin on July 12, 2019, 11:38:45 AMApparently this is the first time since the 2010/11 season that Spurs have been at home on the opening day. I know this much, having seen our activity so far this summer, and the way we finished last season, they will NOT be relishing facing us - as is normally the case for anyone playing the newly promoted sides...
Nah, we’ll destroy them. 3-0, and the collective dropping of jaws will be heard from miles away.