Quote Originally Posted by The Dunster View Post
We have lost the golden boot winner from last season and a work horse defender / midfielder deemed good enough to play in Serie-A. Add to that the loss of a former England International with many years of EPL experience and the likelihood of flappy hands back in goals.

Top six at best. Most likely seventh or worse.

I'll still support them though no matter where I think we will finish.
Taggart doing the same thing a second season wasn't a sure thing. Second season syndrome and all that.

* Geronimo > Heskey
* Madaschi > Mitchell and/or Chapman
* Flores > Brown
* We don't have GVE
* Steele may or may not be better than either Zads/Caravella. My guess is he will be.
* Montano is a complete unknown - we may have a complete flop, we may have a GB contender...
* Griffiths & Carney have had a full pre-season and while I realise they're both a year older which isn't a + for the over 30's, surely we'll see more out of them this season than last.
* We don't have GVE
* Stubbins seems to actually have a clue
* I like Brillante but to say we've lost a midfielder deemed good enough to play in the Serie A doesn't mean shit when his performances for us last year made no impact on reaching the top 6. He *might have been more effective this season but it's not a loss because it never was.

That's not even accounting for Paartalu, who would wipe out the losses of both Caravella and Zadkovich combined in a heartbeat.

My guess is 4th place.