Right now my expectation is that we will finish between 11th -14th and we'll do a bit better than last season.
I don't think that we'll spend much time in the bottom 3 (unless our early handful of matches are predominantly against Top 6 sides).
So yes - technically - we'll be in the...
It's not about getting cocky. Stoke bought expensive rubbish on high wages that trashed team morale, while Southampton sold too many good players and it caught up with them.
Provided you continue to recruit well and are diligent in the transfer market you should always survive, the 'X' Factor...
Well Stephens and Propper can't score any less goals, Knocky can only get better, Izquierdo / Ryan / Gross have settled in and we have Andone.
The only minus is that it would be physically impossible for Murray to replicate another season like last season and his goal production will almost...