I don’t know how you can class consecutive top 6 finishes as ‘stuck in reverse’. Surely if that was the case we’d be starting the season at least a league lower, maybe worse? The start of this season isn’t glaringly worse than other seasons. Just an average run of league results and the usual struggle in the cups in front of very few fans, one of which we actually won. 3 league games in. 43 to go.