I was thinking back over the past decade, but upon reflection, you're probably right, mutatis mutandis.
First insist that Dick Tight bankrupt himself. Then blame the manager. We were so skint in those days there was no Director of Football whose head we could call for.
5 points up or down is blind luck, I figure -- that would have had us somewhere between 4th and 9th.
The latter would have been accounted a catastrophe, the former would have been level with the year before.
So I guess you're right.