GLF 68: What A Difference A Season Makes...

Last Updated : 04-Sep-2017 by GLF

GLF 68: Christopher reflects on the changes since last year

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What A Difference A Season Makes...

Deadlines dictated that when this last issue of a dramatic and unforgettable season went to print we were still uncertain as to whether we had secured our goal of European football next season.As you read this that may still be the case.Finishing the campaign in third place would be a fantastic way to mark season 2007/2008 with a tangible success, but even if we don't I think it is only right and proper that we measure how we've leapt forward from where we were the previous season ......

 

This summer saw us secure the services of Stephen Hughes ......Last summer saw us secure the services of Calum Elliot.

 

 

This term we've won 16 games ....Last season we won ten in total.

This season we've lost an average of 1.13 goals per game
(35 in total) ......Last season our average was 1.61 goals per game (61 in total).

This winter saw us secure the services of Stevie Hammell and Simon Lappin ...Last winter saw us secure the services of Paul Keegan, Danny Murphy and Trevor Molloy.

This season Clarky has scored thirteen times to date ......Last season saw Clarky collect more cautions (5) than goals (3).

This season Paul Quinn has scored three goals and become club captain ......Last season he barely crossed the half-way line and was a boo-boy target.

 

 

This season we've got three strikers in double figures, having scored 39 goals between them already ...Last season we only had one, and we only managed 41 goals all campaign.

This year we have a manager with passion and presence on the touchline ......Last Year we didn't.

 


Last year entering the Bottom Six split we lay in 10th spot with a minus goal difference, 10 wins from 33 matches with 35 goals & 36 points to our name...

This year entering the Top Six split we lie in 3rd spot with a plus goal difference, 16 wins from 32 matches with 42 goals & 52 points to our name.

This summer will find Season Ticket Holders keen to renew for the impending campaign...Last summer saw may Season Ticket Holders threatening not to renew until Malpas left.

This March saw Bob Malcolm sign for Motherwell Football Club to mixed but muted views...If the same person had been recruited for us last March, opinions would have been markedly more voluble ...?!?!!!!?

Our last home game of season 2007/08 will see the players and management receive a deserved ovation from all 'Well supporters...Our last home game of season 2006/07 saw dozens of season ticket books chucked away.

We went into May 2008 a point in front of Dundee Utd and two points ahead of Hibs...We went into May 2007 four points behind Dundee Utd and nine points behind Hibs.

This summer we're concerned about keeping a hold of Mark McGhee, Mark Reynolds, Stephen Hughes, Simon Lappin, Chris Porter, Ross McCormack ...Last summer we were concerned about how we were going to offload Maurice Malpas, Paul Keegan, Kevin McBride, Danny, Murphy, Trevor Molloy, Willie Kinniburgh ...

Just now we're sweating about finishing as low as fifth...Twelve months ago we were sweating about finishing twelfth

So far this term we've taken five points out of fifteen from Celtic and Rangers...Last term we took just two points from a possible eighteen from the Old Firm.

Currently the club are looking forward with plans in the pipeline to move our home to the Ravenscraig site...Last year they were having to budget for the disaster that would have been relegation to the First Division.

This year the club and the fans are working together ......Last year there were mighty divisions between the two.

 

 

by Christopher Hutton

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