[St Charles Owl]

I'm not feeling the doom and gloom etc

It's not just the lack of new faces Chaz. Looking at our holiday tour in Portugal it seems obvious that CC intends to carry on with his 4-4-2, hope we can keep a clean sheet and FF score a goal, tactics that everybody had sussed last season and more scarily intends to make Poodle our new CB   Other coaches are not stupid and will already have the game plan to beat us. Most of our opponents will have marked us down for a 'gimme' 6pts already. We are so predictable I know when I can go and make a cup of tea without missing anything during a game. God knows what 'the experts' have thought up to counteract us in the actual game.

But they didn't suss us out last season, we still finished 4th, we won 24 games and amassed 81 points, so the opposition managers didn't seem much better than CC is being portrayed. I know we still need a couple of players, particularly at CB, but being able to retain our best players has to be a bonus compared to everyone else!! I saw a stat the other day that 96% of the minutes played by us last season were played by players still at the club, this is the model that Brighton followed, keep the squad together and add a couple of better pieces rather than wholesale changes. Boyd is an upgrade on Wallace for me, now we just need 1 or 2 more to improve again.