He was pretty lucky in the league two season
I have come back to this one, because the downplaying of Robins' achievement in getting us out of League 2 I find really irritating.
Compare the two teams that went to Wembley in successive years.
Only 3 carried forward if I remember rightly, Stokes, Willis and Burge
Shipley and Bayliss came up from youth
Kelly, Doyle, Biamiou, Grimmer, Hyam and McNulty were brought in for pennies
During the season three new players were deemed not up to it and not featured - Vincenti McDonald and Davies
He lost his best player just before Christmas - Jodi Jones
Yes it got a bit wobbly after Christmas when we drifted well out of the play offs, but I remember a tough draw at Newport on a disgusting January day when Biamou got a late equalizer, because I thought at the time 'We've got this now, they can get in the play offs'. If you remember the top 3 places were spoken for quite early in the season.
McNulty's goal at Notts County was one of the great goals of the Robins era - well above L2 standard