What are your expectations for 2017?

[mateinone]

MIO, I just want to clarify - the equation as you see it, is thus :

- if the club traded out "everyone", and the list was 90%? new or newish recruits, then you could tolerate a non linear progression up / down the ladder, and after a few years of up/down, then leading to success ?

- because the club hung onto its stars, and only went for a "partial" rebuild, then progression up the ladder must be linear only, moving slowly upwards but never downwards ?

Paul
If we had tried the blank canvas, I would have expected the losses and seen that as still a progression, and what is more I would have expected to see continued progression in results.

My view is that the club has assessed (wrongly) that the we were best placed holding these players and as such, considering we are on a rebuild that means we expect to progress from last year..

If the club goes backwards this year at all, I am not sure what we gained by holding onto older players who I don't think are good enough when we could already be using that money to ensure the future.

I don't really want to try and argue for a rebuild again though. I just wanted to more raise the point that we should have expectations, that the clubs actions should be a message to us where they see us and that we should therefore be able to say.. Okay well then I expect this level in return.

If the club had gone a different path my expectations would have been different, including if somehow they had managed to draft in a raft of stars.

I don't think it is unreasonable to hold the club accountable for their decisions/strategies