I do. I think we'll sort the defence sooner rather than later. With Kranjcar and Barton still to hit full fitness, along with Rossiter to get more game time. Our midfield looks strong and will be far more protection for the CB's than Halliday was last year. Getting another striker in will only help the front line but I'd be confident that we've got enough goals from the front 3 and from guys like Windass.
The main reason I think we will is because we've been written off by everyone already, before a ball has even been kicked in the league. They will all massively underestimate the quality we have in the squad and Mr Warburton will punish that. The Motherwell game is really the only bearing we have to go from in pre-season. Bar the first 20 minutes losing the game never crossed my mind. Even at only one nil, I never felt like we looked in danger of losing.
Besides, how great can this league really be if the "champions" got beat by a non league team from Gibraltar?
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