You’ve got the best bit to come yet, due to watching the games, and seeing your young players develop, throughout last season adapting to football at an higher level, following on from a sustained successful promotion push, you already know this is likely to be a sustained attempt at a top 6 spot because you know your team better than most, But to most fans out there at the moment they’ll be seeing it as a flash in the pan, no different to Readings start and finish last season. You’ll be reading and hearing comments such as it’s nice to see a lower budget club sticking it to the cheating overspending clubs, and the premier league failure payment teams, I wish them luck.
But they’re only saying this because they’re expecting you to drop away, the fun starts when you start reading and hearing, “they’ll get hammered every week in the premier league” “if these go up Derby’s record could be in danger” “I hope for their fans sake they spend if they go up” “They’ll be an embarrassment in the premier league these” and such like. That’s when you know half the league is jealous of little old Coventry, and trust me it’ll make you feel fantastic.