We are top 6 because of where Manning put us - If You have been happy with the football over the past 5 months & see us going up then fair enough but i just cant see it.
What I 'see' doesn't matter. What we *do*, does.
I don't know what will happen, and I won't pretend I can predict it. I do know that it's possible for us to do it, and that's just going to have to be enough.
We are top 6 because we got some points under Manning and some points under Buckingham.
Some of the football hasn't been great under Buckingham (and some has been straight up dire), but neither was it when Manning took over at the end of last season. It has improved significantly in the last month.
Quite frankly it's boring seeing people pick specific periods or points from the past, and using those moments as a stick with which to beat the present.
We could play 5 games of horrible, boring, slow, defensive, dull football and go up, or we could play two dominant, attacking, fast-paced exciting games and miss out on the play-offs altogether. The truth, as always, will probably be somewhere in the middle.
I'm not sure I'll ever understand this mindset where 'we're not good enough', 'we'll get found out against x', etc. We've had some great results recently, and some disappointments. That's life. Football isn't linear. Sometimes you don't get what you deserve, sometimes you get what you don't deserve. but over the course of a season you end up roughly where you deserve.
By 5pm next Saturday we'll know better whether we've got what we deserved from this season, and then on Sunday morning we'll all be looking forward to the next game - whenever that may be - in our own way.