How will we do this season? (Poll)

How will we do this coming season?

As long as we stay in business and pay our bills I can't see us getting relegated even if we finish bottom.

I'm expecting at least two other clubs to have financial troubles and get big points deductions.

8th-12th.

I think we will start slow due to our pre-season schedule or lack of it. A week is a massive difference and we don't have any other friendlies arranged before the season starts in 2 weeks with the cup games.

I think we will finish the season strong but ultimately miss out.

Oh and I voted 18th-22nd purely on where we are now .

Might/should change when I see what other signings Ollie comes up with.

I voted for us to be relagated , but only from looking at what players we have now.  I fully expect us to get more players , but will they be what we need . time will tell. A better time for a poll is when we have a squad together so we can judge better, but at the moment we are miles away from a squad and then getting them to gel

8-12

Mid table mediocrity this season.

As good as his influence proved to be at GTFC for the 10 weeks he had, because of the COVID situation, that influence will have to start over again. At least last season he had a team to play with immediately whereas this season, unless Ollie has a really busy 2 weeks with new signings, he is only working with 3/4 of the players he needs.

Slow start to the season but picking up pace as the season goes on

Quoted from promotion plaice

As long as we stay in business and pay our bills I can't see us getting relegated even if we finish bottom.
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That's the spirit!

Quoted from pizzzza

That's the spirit!

Haha...Cheers  

People are already saying it's all about the season after next, pretty much what we've been hearing for the last 20 years. We are constantly rebuilding for some glorious future that never arrives. I'm hoping IH is the one to finally get us up to the higher reaches of the league, but that's all it is at this moment, hope.

Not going to get my hopes up, been there, done that too many times.

For me, I think the truth probably lies somewhere between the outlooks of those who got a little giddy and talked of promotion bets after we made a handful of signings a week and a half ago and the doomsayers who are predicting major problems given the poor preparation ahead of the season.

Let’s be honest, if this were a normal season where we are right now would be hugely concerning. The players have had little by way of proper training, and friendly matches are few and far between.

We have a squad which contains only 13 seasoned, EFL pros, by which I’m defining as having played more than a handful of games at this level (excluding Sam Russell, who is essentially a coach first and foremost). That’s a worryingly small number, and if we do add to it I’d expect it to be by no more than 2 or 3.

The bulk of the players we’ve brought in are relative unknowns at this level, as are the crop of youngsters who will make up the rest of this season’s squad.

As concerning as that is, we are by no means the only League Two club in this predicament. Take a look at the BBC Sport homepage for League 2 - there is very little going on.

We do have the benefit of the division’s most experienced manager, but let’s not get carried away here either. Ollie has some fantastic achievements in his locker, but like most managers he also has failures too. Perhaps more pertinently, as experienced as he is, he has zero experience of managing under these circumstances. Like every other manager in League’s One and Two, he’s learning on the job right now.

There are a handful of clubs who appear to be going about their business and spending with relative normalcy. They’re the usual suspects, and good luck to them - I expect them to be the ones nailed on for promotion. We can’t do that, so we have to make the most of the cards at our disposal.

On balance, I expect a slow start with a gradual improvement that leads us to a point of relatively comfortable safety, but little more than that. A promotion chasing season would be a fantastic tonic for us all, but I think it’s a fanciful idea.

The only thing that matters over the course of the next twelve months for GTFC is survival. Yes, in the EFL of course, but most importantly as a going concern. I’m not trying to be unnecessarily dramatic here, but the last six months have been incredibly difficult for the club and we still do not know what the next six months or so hold.

I think we’ll do ‘ok’, next season, but above all I just hope that we and in fact all 72 EFL clubs are still around in a year’s time. Well, maybe not MK Dons...