What are your expectations for 2017?

[mateinone]

You may remember that i was in favour of your 'radical plan'.

However, because the club failed to follow said plan, doesn't automatically mean that you can assume it was their own doing. It takes 2 to tango.
You may also remember that despite being in favour of your 'radical plan', i suggested that it was unlikely to happen.....at least to that extent. Reason being - It takes 2 to tango.

Simply, nobody was really buying what we were selling. We did well to cash in with what we had.

So for that reason, i don't think the club deserves to be blasted if we don't rise up the ladder as your suggested expectations predict.

How have you drawn that conclusion? Apart from Gibbs, did we have any negotiations around Murphy, Kreuzer, Thomas, Casboult etc?

Without us knowing either way, I consider it irrelevant. If the list managers have done such a terrible job that we have no one that other clubs are after, then that is worse.

No I think the fact the club is choosing to keep it's established players means they believe they are an important part of this process and that is okay I can wear that. But the biggest reasons for not going all out that I heard were that we could not afford to do that, we couldn't go that far backwards, the club would get smashed, the memberships would drop, the sponsors would leave etc etc...

Okay... well now I expect the club to ensure that we are in fact progressing, if last year was year N in the rebuild, then we are N+1 now and that has to bring progression or they are at fault. If they do, great I am on board, if we don't then they need to answer some serious questions on how they are going to bring this club to the top.

As supporters we absolutely should EXPECT success.