The English Lower League thread (Part 2)

[GB]

Still 35 games to go but Sunderland is three points clear at the top, will they find success this year and make their return to the PL? I've watched and enjoyed the show on Netflix but I don't really follow them, what's been the key to their success so far?

We spent most of last season drifting after firing our manager, completely failing when hiring his replacement and then spending a good chunk of the season just drifting with a caretaker in place. In terms of points we're not actually that much better off after 10 games compared to last season, it's just that around this time last season the wheels fell off.

Other factors are our new head coach has a system that suits our players very well. Last season we had 3 goals scored by strikers, we've already got double that this season. Our three strikers this season are miles ahead of last year's crop. And we're a young team, players have developed. Especially Rigg & Bellingham. Finally we signed a couple of experienced player. In particular Chris Mepham has solidified our defence with a calm experience that balances the back line pretty much perfectly.

We've been lucky too of course but I don't think outrageously so.

 

[Jussi]

Wrexham beat Mansfield at home 1-0 and stay 3rd.

 

[These Are The Days]

If anyone needs their team promoted to the Premier League, call Daniel Farke

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

If anyone needs their team promoted to the Premier League, call Daniel Farke

Except last year, where Leeds lost 4 of their last 6 (two of which to relegation stragglers QPR and Blackburn) to miss an auto-promotion that really should've been theirs.

Looking at the season as a whole, it's hard to blame Leeds for not getting promoted last year - as I laid out in some detail in a post somewhere in this thread, last year's Championship was unprecedentedly difficult and top-heavy. But they really did throw it away.