If you'd been handed the league table before the season and told this is where we'd be at this point - in contention for a play-off spot - every man jack of you would have taken that happily.
The unfortunate thing is the way the results have come : an explosive and highly unexpected sprint out of the blocks and then a slowing of the pace allowing everyone else to catch up.
Had they come more steadily with the five losses spread across the 14 games then we wouldn't be moaning so much I don't think.
Let's just keep our heads, give TC time to sort things out and not panic. There's no point whatsoever in sacking the guy right now or even talking about it, IMHO. He's still getting to grips with life in the Championship and so are a lot of the players. There's an international break again after the next match so let's hope they use it and we push onwards and upwards from there.
It's a very similar situation to last season : how many of us would've expected to be in the play-offs for most of it ?
None.
It shows how fickle we are in then being angry not to make them in the run-in rather than disappointed yet still appreciating a season of progress. Progress is something we haven't enjoyed for a decade. If we were getting better incrementally under Monk and TC continues to build on that by getting us closer then it's not been a bad season.
Having said that, I still think we will make the play-offs this season.
We have a talented young squad with a couple of obvious weak points.
We have a window in January.
Let's also have some perspective.
Positivity, people
