It’s actually quite alarming how many similarities there are as far as circumstances from MON’s last season, deflating sale of best player, emergence of new financial superpower in the league, and as you rightly mentioned a small but growing group of the fan base having doubts. I’m not saying things will work out anything like the same as that season, but it does indeed feel a bit like that.
Lets just hope that if things don’t go to plan this year that NSWE don’t lose interest like Lerner did, I know Dean wouldn’t leave us on the eve of a new season as MON did.