The squad from last season that everyone is hyping up finished nowhere near the playoffs, and this season’s squad is smaller, less experienced and has fewer proven difference-makers.
The idea of this season being a success was predicated on the idea that we didn’t need to strengthen the squad and that the core group signed last season would all individually kick on and go to the next level. It didn’t happen, and that’s partly because the players in question simply aren’t as good as they were hyped up to be.