[St Charles Owl]

I still think we have improved the starting 11 with the signings we have made, but now its up to CC to find his best 11, play them in their correct positions, get the formation right and get them playing to the standard we know they can. Don't think we are stunted, we are really no different in terms of the squad than the other Championship teams from last season, none of whom have improved that much. The one exception to that I think is maybe Wolves, they will be in and about the playoffs this season, but I still think we will. The playoffs are potentially our saving grace, as they are for other teams. Only 2 of the relegated teams can get into the autos, that leaves the crapshoot of the playoffs for the other and three wannabe teams like us. Promotion is our goal, but maybe it will have to be via the playoffs if we cannot get it together quickly enough or consistently enough!!

One crumb of comfort currently, we are ranked 2nd in possession so far this season, and we are quite high with 48 attempts on goal, so if we maintain that level even though we have only scored 2 goals so far we know we have the strikers that will get goals and we will win games. If we had take one of the decent chances against L**ds in the first half I think we would have won the game, but we didn't and got punished for a poor display rather than picking up 3 points from a poor display.