Realistic Target for the 2025-26 season

[Exeter_Gently]

Depends how we start in August & September.

 

[matty1878]

what 9 imposters said relegation

 

[Who's_up_for_cumpkins?]

How can you reasonably judge this with the state of our squad and what we need to do in the transfer window. Right now it's probably a bottom half of the table team round 14th ish.

But if we get the players we're allegedly in for it could quite easily be top half pushing for the lower European spots.

Injuries will play a big part - something we traditionally don't have much luck with.

 

[Miked1e]

what 9 imposters said relegation

Didn't say relegation.... but relegation battle based on our current squad.

 

[NSNO1878EFC]

Keep hearing this.... It is not the same squad. We are 'missing' Doucoure, DCL, Lindstrom, Young, Harrison... 5 players who whether good enough or not have a wealth of experience playing at this kind of level.

Let's look the the subs bench for Blackburn game (when we had most players back bar Pickford and Tarks)..... Tyrer, Keane, Chermiti, Metcalfe, Armstrong, Clarke, Onyango, Heath Thomas.

When a team is very much more than the starting 11 these days then damn we are going to struggle. So at this stage without bringing anyone of note in except for a young unproven striker, then yes the target is to survive a relegation battle!

People really think that our starting 11 is going to play 100% of every game and even if this were ever possible, to be successful in the league really need to give their head a wobble.

I think if we didn’t get many injuries, most of the starting 11 as it is would be fine and there’s no reason we can’t start the season well if we do our remaining business later in the window. If we didn’t do any more business at all (we’re going to end up buying/loaning a few more players), then we’re likely to get some injuries which would hurt us without good backups.

 

[Aries]

This is impossible to even have a guess until the close of the transfer window

 

[Miked1e]

I think if we didn’t get many injuries, most of the starting 11 as it is would be fine and there’s no reason we can’t start the season well if we do our remaining business later in the window. If we didn’t do any more business at all (we’re going to end up buying/loaning a few more players), then we’re likely to get some injuries which would hurt us without good backups.

But it's not just about injuries.... it's about making substitutions during a match like every other team can and will.

We will have 0 on the bench based on our current activity.

So our starting 11 may be decent enough for the first 45 mins against Leeds. Then after that we are done...

 

[yarablue1994]

There’s no depth and the starting 11 aren’t exactly world beaters. I can see another relegation battle in all honesty.

 

[Paul Rideout]

If Leicester can do it we can… until we can’t

 

[gedefc]

high 50's/low 60s pretty much guarantees Europe, that should be the aim

 

[windymiller]

I originally said top half but I now reckon we'll finish about 12th. We'll sign players but it looks like it'll be a standard Dale Winton trolley dash in the last week of the window. That'll cost us points in the Autumn so I'm revising down from 9th to 12th.

 

[Drico]

Right now, as it stands, 15th.

 

[Eggs]

….ahead of the international break, maybe time to take stock.

Yesterday’s win puts us in 8th on 11 points from 7 games. 7 points above the relegation zone & 3 off the top four. A decent start, I have always had two historic benchmarks;

1) Where you are after 10 games is time for an early indication of where you’ll finish.
2) More importantly, 20 points at Christmas gauge. Nicely above that and I’m thinking of being safe and even getting in the European mix. Below that to any degree and maybe looking down rather than up the table.

So, 3 wins by Christmas will see us looking ok. I want to watch the likes of Burnley v Villa wanting Burnley to win because we’re competing up the table, that’s a good litmus test.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Again - we have to be aiming for the top half.

With a relatively fit squad, I honestly don't think that Moyes can have many excuses.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

If we sensibly strengthen with a couple of loans in January,I really think 8th an above is a real possibility.