Are we able to push on?

[Cambridge Away]

My only concern is whether Marco takes his foot off the gas a bit when things are looking good and he hasn't got a clear target. Like how we slipped down the table at the end of last season (and earlier on kept casually losing to teams in the relegation spots last year immediately after dominating top teams).  League football is such a long haul that sometimes the old adage of 'one game at a time' goes out the window and managers and players get casual. Perhaps at the tail end of last season, when we had a couple of injuries, his mindset just became that we didn't have a good enough squad to make Europe and then the results followed. I don't remember the exact sequence for injuries, but the results seemed worse than the injuries could explain.

With the squad we now have, having performed brilliantly since Robinsons return, and the AFCON players back (plus new signings), surely we should be making a run for at least a Europa league spot. I hope Marco will take the next step into actually winning a close run race for Europe. He hasn't shown that he can sustain a long tough battle right to completion, which getting into Europe in the Premier league is or through a cup (even if we came up against two incredible teams in Palace and Liverpool when we did). Whether he does or not, let's not forget what role he played in getting us to where we are now.

[blingo]

We're one good attacking midfielder away from a very good squad. If we can perform well for the rest of the season I think we can qualify for European football.
I'd be quite happy winning the champions league before a domestic cup

[Cambridge Away]

We're one good attacking midfielder away from a very good squad. If we can perform well for the rest of the season I think we can qualify for European football.
I'd be quite happy winning the champions league before a domestic cup

With Muniz returning, if we also sign a striker too, we will have an incredible squad. Surely the best ever? Even if Hodgson probably had a better starting eleven.

The only position i worry about is GK. Though i hope Lecomte would improve with a run of games.

[SuffolkWhite]

Yea anything is possible with a stronger squad, a box to box midfielder snd Striker are a must though. Maybe Bobb can play centrally to be that Midfielder 🤔

[jayffc]

My only concern is whether Marco takes his foot off the gas a bit when things are looking good and he hasn't got a clear target. Like how we slipped down the table at the end of last season (and earlier on kept casually losing to teams in the relegation spots last year immediately after dominating top teams).  League football is such a long haul that sometimes the old adage of 'one game at a time' goes out the window and managers and players get casual. Perhaps at the tail end of last season, when we had a couple of injuries, his mindset just became that we didn't have a good enough squad to make Europe and then the results followed. I don't remember the exact sequence for injuries, but the results seemed worse than the injuries could explain.

With the squad we now have, having performed brilliantly since Robinsons return, and the AFCON players back (plus new signings), surely we should be making a run for at least a Europa league spot. I hope Marco will take the next step into actually winning a close run race for Europe. He hasn't shown that he can sustain a long tough battle right to completion, which getting into Europe in the Premier league is or through a cup (even if we came up against two incredible teams in Palace and Liverpool when we did). Whether he does or not, let's not forget what role he played in getting us to where we are now.

I think it mostly coincided with around cup loss and the specific injuries tbh.

We lost really key players who were on fire at the moment they got hurt back end of last year, namely Muniz and Wilson as well as Tete being out for months, + Robinson playing on an injury that would later need surgery, alongside Castagne also playing through injury in Tetes absence and of course losing Reiss Nelson for the season just as he was looking like making an impact.

Losing our main striker down the stretch after the cup clearly set us back and I think morale dropped badly given how much talk there was about a great chance to win some silverware.

Don't think it was so much a Silva issue. Top 10 and Europe was still on the cards till the last couple games, we just lost Muniz and a few others at the worst possible timing down that home run stretch. Knocked out the cup and players heads dropped a bit and we just missed out.

This year we kept most of that squad together and added some key attacking options. Now with another in Bobb and potentially 1 or 2 more we have plenty options to sustain a challenge.

[Cambridge Away]

My only concern is whether Marco takes his foot off the gas a bit when things are looking good and he hasn't got a clear target. Like how we slipped down the table at the end of last season (and earlier on kept casually losing to teams in the relegation spots last year immediately after dominating top teams).  League football is such a long haul that sometimes the old adage of 'one game at a time' goes out the window and managers and players get casual. Perhaps at the tail end of last season, when we had a couple of injuries, his mindset just became that we didn't have a good enough squad to make Europe and then the results followed. I don't remember the exact sequence for injuries, but the results seemed worse than the injuries could explain.

With the squad we now have, having performed brilliantly since Robinsons return, and the AFCON players back (plus new signings), surely we should be making a run for at least a Europa league spot. I hope Marco will take the next step into actually winning a close run race for Europe. He hasn't shown that he can sustain a long tough battle right to completion, which getting into Europe in the Premier league is or through a cup (even if we came up against two incredible teams in Palace and Liverpool when we did). Whether he does or not, let's not forget what role he played in getting us to where we are now.

I think it mostly coincided with around cup loss and the specific injuries tbh.

We lost really key players who were on fire at the moment they got hurt back end of last year, namely Muniz and Wilson as well as Tete being out for months, + Robinson playing on an injury that would later need surgery, alongside Castagne also playing through injury in Tetes absence and of course losing Reiss Nelson for the season just as he was looking like making an impact.

Losing our main striker down the stretch after the cup clearly set us back and I think morale dropped badly given how much talk there was about a great chance to win some silverware.

Don't think it was so much a Silva issue. Top 10 and Europe was still on the cards till the last couple games, we just lost Muniz and a few others at the worst possible timing down that home run stretch. Knocked out the cup and players heads dropped a bit and we just missed out.

This year we kept most of that squad together and added some key attacking options. Now with another in Bobb and potentially 1 or 2 more we have plenty options to sustain a challenge.

Great response. I hope you are right. It was gutting to see us flounder like that after Palace knocked us out. It does show how human everyone is, even if it is not Silva personally who was responsible.