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That's ok Corny, I understand how much time is taken up by your meticulous reading of the Guardian Sports section. I'd normally comment more, but there was no reaction or response to my initial chevrons. Pisti would have something to say about us normally. Prole can't really comment after Forests result at the weekend and Markyboy's high rollers seem to be too far out in front for anyone to care about any more.
At the beginning of the season, we were setting our sights on play offs at least. Clough had had long enough to get the team in order and we knew we had the players to get us that far at least. Results were poor, performances were below par. 14th was way below expectation.
McClaren has come in and the press seem to think we've over achieved. Really, we are where we expected to be (or a little bit better if truth be told). The main change since he's come in are his tactical decision making (bringing on fresh attacking options instead of sitting back and letting opponents get back into the game) and the use of the loan market. He has a reputation of being an excellent coach and other teams are happy to let us use some of their bright young talents.
If we do go up, we will need to be busy in the transfer market, our leaky defence would be utterly useless week in week out in the top flight. It would also be interesting to see how much money our owners are willing to spend if we go up. They've been quite shrewd with money since relegation and we have one of the smallest wage bills in the Championship.