Can't, at the moment, think of a league season quite like this, started crap, then went on a brilliant run, then went back to crap, let's hope it can finish on, well a another brilliant run is perhaps asking for too much, but a better run than Liverpool and Chelsea.
If we count the 5-1 against Newcastle as "started crap", then 23-24 broadly followed the same path. That finished on an improved, if still inconsistent run.
Which would probably be enough this year if we can drag our form up to the dizzying heights of "inconsistent".