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Obviously a much better league position, never any fear of relegation and just a brief hint of play offs at one point.
We played 2 more games but only scored 6 more goals than last season. Only the relegated teams scored less.
The defence was much improved 61 goals conceded, 78 last season.
Not sure how many red cards, two maybe?
Attendance figures much the same.
Highlights, beating Corby in FA Cup, 5 goals against Grantham and L Students, beating Worcester and Long Eaton. Ironically best performance was at Quorn losing in final minutes.
Not really sure how many of current squad will be with us next season, so many just average players
Must do utmost to keep Adegbola, Harrison, Charlie Green and Corden.
New Assistant Manager needed ASAP.

A season of what-ifs that, really, was defined by injuries to key players, loss of form of others at key times, and inability to recruit players able to really affect the starting XI positively between November - January when we really needed them.

Had Jarvis Wilson stayed fit for the entire season I'm certain we would have finished at least where Wellingborough ended up (8th). That would have been worth at least an extra 9 points from the 20+ games that he missed, which is the number of points we ended up behind them.

Considering Jarv's injury, then the loss of Tarik also, plus the ongoing issues faced by Hughesy, I am personally happy with the season generally. The remit at the start of the season was to make sure that we weren't in the sort of trouble we'd faced in the last 2 seasons and we were never really anywhere near doing that. So to that end, I'm happy.

I accept though that seasons like this where you have nothing to play for the last 3 months of the season aren't really in our DNA, and doesn't make for much excitement.

The club's as strong off the pitch as it has been for many a year with record levels of volunteers stepping forward in key roles alongside a very determined and committed board. We now need a spark on the pitch.

I certainly agree about Wilson, Dallas and Hughes. If they had all been fit for most of the season our defensive record could have been 10 goals better. (And if David had been with us from the start)
That's not to take anything away from Tejan and Charlie but they are best deployed in midfield.
Good to hear off pitch situation is much better, just hope we can get a new sponsor in place soon.
Finally a big vote of thanks to the Board and the volunteers.