It's the hope that kills you. I think most people forget that this is an extremely poor league, as it was last season. Barnsley made the play-offs for fucks sake. With our start, there is absolutely no reason why we can't make the play-offs, but the poor performances are starting to creep in. I don't think it helps that every team seems to up their game massively against us (Barnsley, Luton, Swansea etc etc), but anything less than play-offs now would be a disappointment.
Look at the League table - with the exception of Bournemouth and (maybe) West Brom/Fulham, are there seriously any teams better than us on our day? Absolutely not.