I think we saw enough from various players across the season to suggest we could have done better. After we got half a dozen players back from injury Jones was saying "See guys, if we just had all players available we would have been doing fine." What happened after that run to lead us to where we are now? Not sure.

I think Kokko has been extremely poorly utilised. Its pretty obvious to me that he's a pretty handy footballer and could have scored more goals for us and been a lot more influential in games if he was used in a way to suit his talents.

Hoole and Nabbout were always going to be inconsistent - Member's comparison to Sterling is actually pretty good. But even inconsistent talented players while making a lot of mistakes will have plenty of moments where they put it together and provide for you - these two were doing that earlier in the season but not recently.

Clut has been frozen out for ages despite a lot of minutes earlier in the season where he was looking dangerous and was consistently improving the team's performance coming off the bench.

I think Hoffman is our best FB and does decently. Not sure why he was moved to left to play out of position to accommodate poor options at RB. Leave him at RB and play Mullen/Cowburn/JK/BK whoever at left back. My preference would be Vujica who while mistake prone looked lively and keen early in the season. How far might he have progressed this season if he'd been played?

Ugarkovic has gone backwards this season, he looked so composed and tidy last season where now he's inconsistent and not having much impact. Is this due to instructions from Jones to play a bit more advanced than the dedicated deep-lying / holding role he was playing last year so well? He certainly has been further up the pitch this season from memory.

Formation wise, if you look at where our squad has depth (in numbers if not talent) its probably defence. We have three serviceable CBs in Boogs, Jackson and JK. Possible backup in Mullen and Kanta. The flavour of the month 3 at the back formation may have been worth a shout. Maybe throw Hoole at LWB and Hoffman RWB. Noddy and Kokko up top as a front two. Poljak/Brown with Uga as two holding mids and let Nabbout drift as a nominal midfielder to find space (ie wide) to run into.

Anyway I definitely had better expectations halfway through the season of where we would end up than where we have.