Doesn't make us shite, doesn't make us bad but we are not the same side as last season. We're good but we are going through the motions something awful this season.
Energy, hunger, desire..call it what you want. Whatever you call it, we don't have it anymore. There is absolutely no zip to this team.
Failure(for whatever reason) to freshen up this squad is going to cost us.
I think this was really inevitable after last season.
Assuming nobody else is going to challenge for the league we have basically gone 4 points ahead today. Gives us a bit of a cushion and an opportunity to find some form.
As much as I hate to make these comparisons but in Gerrards first season the tims had dropped 8 points within the first 6 matches of the season. When we beat them in the 29th of December game we pulled level on points but it was only after the winter break that they went on a run that won them the title.
Sometimes it does take a bit of time for a season to get going.
People shouldn't be so quick to lose their minds on here. Title races have never really been all that easy and in the past we've had plenty of seasons where it took us a while to get going.
I don't think we'll see a 102 point total at the end of this season. Probably 90 looks a bit more realistic right now. Don't really think that things will be wrapped up before the split. Might even go down to the last game.
I wonder if people were satisfied with Walters final season in charge?
I think most would say yes because of how the season ended.
During the season? Definitely not. Many, many, trying times that year.
The problem is we are trying to judge a season and it's not even the end of September. I think we might all feel different in May.