the momentum carried us till jan, we were always going to slide, some of the games we played aweful in and just grounded out a lucky goal to win it. i could see it coming.
but its nice to have a team finally that can be second best for an hour then come out with the win, it always used to be the other way round.
we had a bit of bad luck losing martain laurson. carew had a long time out and young and gabby have had long patches of poor form as well.
On a whole we have had the experiance of mixing it with the top 4 for a time, we beat arsenal away, and pushed man u all the way to the last ten minutes. low times were probablt middlesbrough at home and definatly liverpool away when we were took apart.
in the close season Barry will go, as will gardener. not sure about our plans for sidwell and shorey, both i think can be good players on there day, shorey proving it more recently, although sidwell has been awefull at times. Carew id be gutted to lose but according to the media we will. im also a wee bit concerned about a large bid coming in for ashley, keeping him is criticle to the team.
if we can bring in a good center half, some quality up front, and strenthen the right side a bit. we do need a good few signings though, and once again we will be lacking strengh in depth.
if we bother with the europa league at all, and dont get some depth in the team, we could get burn out the last 3 months again next year.
all in all its going to be important we have a good close season if were to push on next year.
