did you seriously think we were going to win the league? we cannot competed with some of the budgets of some teams where they have a good catchment area for players from higher leagues. We will be competing for the play-offs but there are some strong teams this year
Yes I did seriously think we could win the league, I've said it before the day we give up on winning a step 2 league is the day we need to pack up playing. Citing budget is a bit of a cope out for me as well, if it's just about budgets then we might as well forget playing and just see who has the most money, football is more than that it's just an excuse for poor displays.
I'd agree with DL on 2 counts:
1: We don't know any budgets of any clubs including our own. We can make an educated guess based on the players people bring in and where from etc. I'd hazzard a guess there are between 6 and 10 teams with higher budgets. But Chester apart (and maybe BPA) we've yet to play any of those I perceive as having a higher budget. By your theory we should have beaten all those sides and lost to Chester. So far we only have ourselves to blame for not winning every game we've played. I've yet to see a decent side, Chester where mediocre, BPA have been about the best but we should have won/drawn that one. The rest have been poor and we should have put all of them away.
2: Yes we have blown any chances of the title and we need to work really hard to be in the play-off hunt. As DL has pointed out history suggests the usual maximum losses as 10 games for a play-off side. Which means we have to only lose as many games in the next 33 as we have in our first 9. We really need to put a good run together in the next 10 or so games up to Xmas and restrict losses to 1 or 2 at most. If results and in some cases performances continue the way they have the play-offs will be out of reach before we get to Xmas and personally I don't think any of it is down to budget as I believe we have a set of players capable of competing with anything in this league.
