What has happened though has gone against that. We've managed to fight back to first. Although fight back might not be the most accurate way of phrasing it. We've clawed our way back whilst Vasalund and Vasteras have faltered.
Those recent draws we had occurred around the same time as a dip in form for the others. They dropped points with draws or losses. We crept up and then eventually overtook them.
Five games to go then. Can we do it? Erm....yeah maybe. I should actually be more optimistic as we're looking on to get more points this season than last but it's still very tight at the top. I don't feel like the team are performing at their peak either.
Pass completion isn't great and Felic is out for most of those final 5 games. In fact he's probably out for all of them when you consider match fitness too. Viggeborn has been doing well as a straight replacement for Felic. Perhaps too well as I'm sure he was listed as a ML/ST when I bought him...now he's just a ST. I'm guessing that he was in the process of being retrained for the ML spot and then when I signed him I didn't continue - so now he's lost it.
Kamara is almost certainly out for the final 5 games too. And Lundesvall might only make it back in time for the final couple of games. Can probably see why my optimism is waning a little.
What you might also notice* is that a lot of players have decided to jump ship. Molder, Hansen, Tinnerholm, Ekholm and Muqdisi. Of those Molder and Hansen will be big loses, and Ekholm might be considering he's my back up at right back. I don't really care about Tinnerholm and Muqdisi. Neither of them have lived up to even my quite low expectations of them.
I just couldn't get them to stay though. Most of them wanted out or wanted more than I could offer them. I've not tried to recruit yet because I think my two options for squad building depend on whether I get promoted or not. If I wait and get promoted I can recruit, hopefully, a better standard of player. If I don't get promoted then I think I need to gut the team. I'll need to get rid of deadwood and free up wages for the next push.
I don't really fancy a big rebuild of the squad though, so I'd better get promoted then.
*And what you might also, also notice is that the individual training for most of the players doesn't seem to change much. I did initially change it quite a bit but because of the level of my coaching, and the fact most players are part time, very little seems to change stat wise for a lot of the players. I do change things up every now and again but as the changes aren't huge I don't get much benefit from changing them often.
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