Rate the season

[eye digress]

A for me, which is already brilliant, reflecting our joint highest league finish under Unai plus a trophy and the general flourish at the end.

Although the January injury glut was outside of our control, as well as (broadly) the financial restrictions, there were a few too many troughs in there for an A+ (the dreadful start, the poor recruitment, which compounded the restrictions). A+ would have had us on the shoulders of the leaders in third, for me.

But I think we’ll get there.

UTV!

[Brend'Watkins]

10/10. Maybe 11/10 if you take into account we lost our midfield for a big chunk of it. I think if we started the season like we finished it and we didn’t lose those key players we might have done a double.

We’ve made progress and people are beginning to notice.

[Somniloquism]

I'm assuming we are not having an official awards night this year?

[olaftab]

If we had not made a crap start and not lost 3 key midfielders for 3 months later in the season we would have won the League.

[Toronto Villa]

Contrast the devastating way we ended last season in Manchester to this. The difference couldn’t be greater. The mood so much better and optimistic for the future.

[Breezeblock]

Fucking awesome!

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

"Fantastic". Which is better than "Terrific", and much better than "We go again" or "A good bunch of lads".

[GarTomas]

Demanding.

[PeterWithesShin]

It has been a strange season. At times we looked untouchable, at times we put in performances that were woeful. We sarcastically cheered someone who made a successful pass who went on to win Europa player of the year and is off to the WC. We scored a number of breathtaking goals and had spells where we looked incapable of even having a shot on target again. Spells where we never looked like dropping a point and spells where we never looked like winning again.

[Rigadon]

Best season I can remember (bit too young to really remember 82).  It’s a solid 10/10 for this manager and squad to have achieve what they have. 

Keep the core together and add some extra quality and we will challenge for the league next year. 

[Villa Lew]

It's been a magnificent season and also unique, the only season in which we have beaten every Sky 6 club and ended up winning a European trophy.

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

As seen on MOTD.

Of the final top 5, we finished joint top of the mini league versus each other.

Of the same 5 we finished bottom in comparative results against the leagues bottom 5 teams.

[Monty]

As seen on MOTD.

Of the final top 5, we finished joint top of the mini league versus each other.

Of the same 5 we finished bottom in comparative results against the leagues bottom 5 teams.

Unai likes a challenge, and he likes teams who press us high and man-to-man. I kind of prefer it this way, more fun really to beat Arsenal than Burnley in the end.

Overall - after that start we finished a clear fourth when fifth would have done, beat Man City home and away, had a thousand huge memories (Buendia against Arsenal? Tammy vs. Sunderland?) - oh yeah, and ended the three-decade drought with a proper European trophy we'd never won before. That's worth a weirdly bad day or two against Wolves, or Palace, or even Spurs.

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

Agree, feels like it’s the first time in 20-30 years since we’ve regularly beaten the better teams.

Love it.

[darren woolley]

Absolutely brilliant 11/10 for me.