I went for a 7, rarely in the mood to really express happiness and true hope in case it backfires, but it was never below a 5 and a bit, not a person any longer so devastated by imperfections.
Our identity as a passing team seems but a distant memory to me, that left us in the spring a couple of years ago
We are now aspiring to mid table mediocrity as a defining moment of a generally inept season (or inert aka Mr McGhee, or eeerrrrr eeerrr errr well you know, as recent ex employee might have put it)
Success is what others enjoy, others that is generally with a year of two of stability behind them, and dare I say it scouting teams that report to the first team manager
Obviously I am not on message in any way shape or form re what all the latest marketing spin tells me I should be thinking, but guess I am just too old to be part of the target market segment that is all aimed at, just a fan of near thirty years
4 at best although I didn't make today, the BBC said it was a smash and grab victory. Is that true?
I was up to a 7 when Jones had the boys fired up and deserved all 4 points he achieved.
Were there any playing positives today?
6 and hopefully rising. Loving CH interviews - he knows what he is talking about. If he gets us to mid table mediocrity that will be fine by me - in the long term I think the nightmare start to this season will have been a good/vital learning experience for future success.
8 For me, couple of wins, eldest daughter at age of 14 decided she likes football now so got her a half season ticket yesterday. While we were in there someone had returned an orange away shirt, so my son spent some of his (my) christmas money very quickly. Which was just as well as was in a mood for wreckless spending yesterday after a really crappy morning.
This, although I voted 6, as I'm still feeling relief at the two sackings.
Not sure we'll ever get the feeling of a couple of years ago back - far too many big & thoroughly avoidable mistakes been made & I'm not about to get excited about just being not crap