8th place

[Monk]

At times this season and even quite recently it seemed impossible that we would finish in the top half, yet with a strong finish we have managed 8th. 
 

I’ll take it, definitely. It’s frustrating as without the stupid collapses we could have finished higher. 
 

Are you happy with 8th?

[stourbridgefox]

I was delighted with 8th in MON's last season.

[Kinowe Soorie]

Frustrating season for me. Should have been better.

[Dahnsouff]

Not happy, but content with all the issues this season, some of which are owned by Brendan, some by other factors/people.

[purpleronnie]

Glad we finished 8th mainly because that's what I predicted at the start of the season so it confirms that i'm awesome.

[RowlattsFox]

Only a couple of last minute goals away from challenging for European places. That falls on Rodgers of course but not many teams will have coped with injuries and managed to finish a respectable 8th. 

 

That said, style and performances have not been good and needs to change next season. 

[Nalis]

Would have taken it at the start of the season but coupled with a europa league win.

 

Know everyone says it about their own team but we must be the most frustrating team in the premier league for inconsistency.

[Stinkenzo]

8th is okay but would we all not rather finish 16th playing nice football and be able to defend set pieces?? 

Edited 22 May 2022 by Stinky

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

Just now, RowlattsFox said:

Only a couple of last minute goals away from challenging for European places. That falls on Rodgers of course but not many teams will have coped with injuries and managed to finish a respectable 8th. 

 

That said, style and performances have not been good and needs to change next season. 

Was the European Johnstone Paints Trophy equivalent, mind you. 

[Merging Cultures]

I'm happy with 8th. We definitely could have done better but good end to the season. 

 

Let's get our players fit, bring in some more quality and go again!

[Kilworthfox]

4 minutes ago, Monk said:

At times this season and even quite recently it seemed impossible that we would finish in the top half, yet with a strong finish we have managed 8th. 
 

I’ll take it, definitely. It’s frustrating as without the stupid collapses we could have finished higher. 
 

Are you happy with 8th?

It's disappointing with the squad we have. 

[Sampson]

Maddison and Vardy have dragged us there really. Most of the rest have been poor. We saw how much worse we got after Vardy got injured then how much better we got again when Vardy came back again.

 

Am happy with 8th overall but we’d be ****ed if Vardy and Maddison were both out injured for a long time.

Edited 22 May 2022 by Sampson

[Captain...]

Good end to the season, can't complain at 8th considering the difficulties we've had with injuries, COVID disruptions and European fixture congestion. I think 6th or 7th would have been ultimately damaging to next season. We can now focus on streamlining the squad for a purely domestic season. If Youri is going then I just hope we get that sorted quickly.

[Hales]

I would of taken 8th happily for most of this season but now looking at the table and seeing how appalling Man Utd were, it is frustrating to be so near to top 6. Given our injuries and lack of cohesion and momentum a strong finish is great though. Lots to take into pre-season and hopefully confidence and swagger will be high in the team. 

 

Bring it on!

[Aus Fox]

In terms of revenue, spend, squad etc. 8th is par for us.

The big 6 have retuned To the top 6 places and for anyone outside that to make the top 6, you need one of them to have a stinker of a season.

Ultimately, just 4 points behind West Ham, coupled with a European Semi is a decent season for us. 

[brucey]

Happy with 8th, prefer it over 7th

[Webbo]

It is disappointing but but for a few injury time goals we'd probably be in Europe again. As someone on here keeps saying, progress isn't linear. 

[StriderHiryu]

8 minutes ago, Monk said:

At times this season and even quite recently it seemed impossible that we would finish in the top half, yet with a strong finish we have managed 8th. 
 

I’ll take it, definitely. It’s frustrating as without the stupid collapses we could have finished higher. 
 

Are you happy with 8th?

They say the table never lies, but I kind of feel that this season, it does!

 

I feel like we never really got going this season, it was always mini bursts that quickly petered out. 8th would be considered a superb season under MON or even when we first got promoted, but this is an expensive squad that were FA Cup winners. I don't think anyone here expected a top 4 push, but we should have been in the fight for top 6 until the last day of the season, when in reality we were out of the race by Christmas.

 

For all of us the real frustrations were:

- Poor performance in Europe. Don't let the Conference run fool you. We had an easy group in the Europa but lost to Legia, and couldn't beat Spartak or Napoli at home. We also went out with a whimper to Roma, who aren't that strong.

- Pathetic defence of the FA Cup. If a team from a lower division beats you with a back to the walls, digging in effort where you pepper their goal, fair enough. In reality 4-1 flattered us, we were truly dreadful in that game.

- Too many capitulations and goals conceded in the final stages of games. The Spurs one I will never get over, but also Liverpool in the cup, Newcastle, Everton, etc, etc.

- Our defending of set pieces that was truly Sunday league standard at best.

 

I'm not Rodgers out, he is a good manager and I think he deserves the summer to rebuild. But we can't have another season like this one with the investment we made, and Top will be saying the same. With this squad and these players, not getting European football is failure, so this season we ultimately failed.

 

At least there were some positives. Maddison has blossomed into a truly fantastic player and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall an absolute revelation.

 

To answer the question, no not happy. We should have qualified for Europe at minimum and did not. Not good enough!

 

 

Edited 22 May 2022 by StriderHiryu

[Muzzy_no7]

-1st

 -Champions League Quarter Final

-9th

-5th

-5th and FA Cup win 

-8th, Charity Shield win and European Semi final. 
 

Not bad.

[Aus Fox]

2 minutes ago, Kilworthfox said:

It's disappointing with the squad we have. 

Is it? Do we genuinely when you look at it subjectively, have a better squad than anyone who finished above us?

Especially, when you consider how many first choice players have missed large chunks of the season.

[LCFC_Iceland]

Imagine when we sort out set piece defense, top of of the league incoming 😅

Edited 22 May 2022 by LCFC_Iceland

[SafewayFox]

Rodgers/Rudkin have a HUGE summer ahead of them now.

 

Last summers signing have been underwhelming in the main.

 

As someone else just mentioned, getting the Youri situation sorted early doors is very important to how we get our business sorted.

 

8th with the context of injuries, iffy VAR decisions against us is better than I predicted not long ago.

 

“Time to train set-pieces” will mean we’ll have a mean defence next season (say it enough times, got to come true right?)

Edited 22 May 2022 by SafewayFox

[whoareyaaa]

We can't change it now but set pieces have cost us dearly, along with injuries and so on.

 

Go again next season.

[Unabomber]

Bad season but we go again 

[PhillippaT]

6 minutes ago, purpleronnie said:

Glad we finished 8th mainly because that's what I predicted at the start of the season so it confirms that i'm awesome.

I was overly optimistic and predicted 5th. Oh well. I got Man City, Liverpool, West Ham and Norwich right