Although we've been through this a million times here MON's squad in his first season wasn't even close in quality to the squad that we have now.
We had an inexperienced 20 year old Gabby Agbonlahor playing his first full season, a shite Milan Baros, Gavin McCann, Steven Davis, Liam Ridgewell, Jlloyd Samuel and Aaron Hughes as starting players back then.