How on Earth has Howe done it? Wilson and Trippier never did make it back to contribute to the effort, but the team has gone out there, played for each other, and got us over the line before we even had to play the hard part of our run in. They did it with Wood only scoring 2 goals and Emil Krafth at RB. The players were in disarray when he arrived, and it took a while to see the changes, but suddenly it all came together. What do you see as the biggest changes that saved us from relegation, when most pundits had us dead and buried? I had finished celebrating survival the last few years, because we knew nothing would change, and we'd be back in the same spot next year. This one is different. Going down would have stifled recruitment, maybe lost the manager, and given the other clubs another crack at keeping the PIF out of the Premier League. This is such an impact to the progress we can make in the next three years. This time it's not the same. #Cans!
And we're mathematically safe. 8 of the last 10 seasons we've been relegated or fighting relegation. That's over. Even if these were the lads starting next season, there would be hope that a little luck could get us far along in one of the cups or close to the European places. Welcome the return of hope.
So, If BHA and Brenford lose and we win on the last matchday we'll finish in the upper half with a negative goal differential in the high teens most likely. What a turnaround this season was from that dismal start. Although some of that GD is earned recently. I mean, when we lose to one of the big dogs, we lose by a lot...heh
So.. They finish 11th. And strangely that seems like an achievement to build on this time unlike the, "Ashley special" of finishing out of Europe but not relegated so he doesn't have to spend or lose.