Where in the table did you think we'd finish this season

Just curious as to peoples expectations of this season.

 

I think I said upper mid table - eighth to twelfth - so broadly in line with where we are.

Though sadly I suspect by the end of the season we will be in the bottom half, just about.

 

I thought 10th to 12th. Looking like I might have been a bit optimistic.

 

If I remember I thought playoffs.

I'm sure there's a thread of here that had a predictions, and most thought somewhere between 6th and 10th.

I'm fcked if I can find it though.

 

League One Season 24/25 Expectation [Poll]

 

With 6 games to go we mathematically can't get automatically promoted (28 point gap with 18 left to play for)

I can see us picking up 6 points in the last 6 games really which fetches us to a lofty 9th place without accounting for other results or points gains.

I reckon we finish 13th.

 

I thought 10th might have been abit ambitious sadly.

 

Sure someone could find the thread from last summer to see what everyone went for.

 

https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/league-one-season-24-25-expectation-poll.331986/

 

It appears I voted seventh to tenth on that poll, so slightly higher than I thought I’d said but marginally.

We won’t do as well as I thought either way I don’t think.

 

I'd said playoffs, if we signed a striker. We didn't, although we signed a goalscorer in DKD, but not an outright striker as well. Didn't expect us to be this far off top 6 TBH though.

 

Before a ball was kicked, I said play-offs though caveated that with us having a good end to the transfer window which, DKD aside, we didn't have. I feared after the window closed that we'd slip down towards mid-table. It didn't happen as quickly as I thought it might, though a second successive poor transfer window this season has accelerated that descent now.

Best case scenario from here is that we appoint a coach in the next couple of weeks, they get a good look at the squad and work out who they want to keep for next season, we put a couple of results together and scrape the top 10.

Neerav's comments in the last few weeks though haven't given me any confidence that we'll have a new manager in place by the time I come back off holiday towards the end of May. We actually appointed Clarke earlier than any manager we ever had in a summer window, though surely they can see the benefit in giving someone the reigns now with little to play for.

 

After 2 playoff campaigns in a row, I expected us to be there again, even though we’d dropped off a bit in the previous one.

Certainly didn’t foresee a situation where team and fans had all given up with so many points left to play for.

 

I remember seeing one League One forecast putting us in the bottom half of the table and thinking that was unlikely.

It is a good job we won so many away games before Christmas.

 

Mid table mediocrity

 

I said 7th-10th - so a better than what we're currently heading for.

I think if we'd have kept Clarke, we probably would have achieved that.

Even though its not really an achievement.

 

Let's face it most of the team will be looking forward to the beach.

 

I said 6th to 12th. Playoffs at best. I repeated it so often I annoyed myself.

I obviously hoped for the high end of that, or better! Sadly, we look likely to finish mid table.

 

I predicted top two and I’ll be very surprised if I’m wrong

 

I predicted summat on another thread, top 6 i think, to be fair cant remember, but i'm surprised and foooked off at the Teams lack of effort an the Clubs lack of ambition. I will renew my Grankids tkts, an buy the shirts an that'll be my all. UNLESS, summat improves.