Teams have good and bad spells throughout the season, the fact Bristol Rovers came good at the end of the season is pretty irrelevant, title winners Forrest Green probably aren’t at this moment one of the top ten teams. I don’t think we’ve got anything to beat ourselves up about, with hindsight any team can look at aspects where they could have done better but league 2 teams by nature are inconsistent. The way things fell just left a perfect storm of factors where the only team that could catch us happened to face the worst team at home who decided to play their youth team, with no interest in integrity, it is what is, probably under any other circumstances we would have been up with our win.
Spot on Lee. In our 95 seasons in the FL, our 80 points total is our 9th highest and in all but one of the other 8 we have been promoted outright. Only in 1952/53 did we not get promoted despite finishing 3rd in Div 3 South (only one team went up I think). Also our 38 goals conceded is our second lowest (only the 37 in 2005/06 and 1997/98 were better). We were only 4 points from the champions. I think we have exceeded expectations. Sadly it wasn't enough due to an extraordinary twist of fate which Keith Hill played a big part in with that embarrassing and unsporting team selection.