Originally a forum post by outre-merTOON, click to read/comment
The new season is finally upon us and the first ball of the new campaign is due to be kicked in anger within the next 26 hours.
After a summer where much was seemingly promised by the club in terms of learning from mistakes and ensuring that the errors didn’t occur again it appears that we’re about to replicate every error that was made last season in terms of summer and pre-season acquisitions.
Hark back 12 months. We were on the cusp of our grand campaign to show the world that the previous season’s finish of 5th wasn’t a clerical error and the target was to finish in a very decent league position as well as challenge for honours on continental European soil. Looking back at that time, I was as excited as a fat kid locked in a sweet shop for a long bank holiday weekend.
It didn’t matter that we’d signed very few players because the mainstay of the squad that had competed so brilliantly had been retained and we were sure to kick on.
Hindsight is a bitch. A bitch that is only happy when you’re on the floor crying after having your testicles stamped on and ground into the floor with a stiletto heel. It was as if I’d misunderstood the giddy excitement of enjoying the potential of being that fat kid locked in a sweet shop for a long bank holiday weekend. Instead I was a fat diabetic kid who’d been trapped in a sweet shop for a long weekend and who dare not taste the merchandise but was being forced to by an evil, sadistic sweet shop owner for having the temerity to expect a good time.
So, the cusp of a grand campaign is here again and irrespective of the lack of new signings, we have at least retained the mainstay of our squad that competed so brilliantly two seasons ago and surely they’ll kick on.
I’m off to spend a weekend in a sweet shop by invitation of the owner. Sounds like fun!