Views from the Sieve

What are everyone’s predictions for the season ahead?

Obviously mine is that we win every game
6-0 and get promoted back to the National
league.
I’ll do the rest of the division when I’ve had a proper chance to think about it. O

I think we'll be about 4-6th based on what we've got at the moment.

Expect the usual suspects to be strong again. Farnham looking to make a name for themselves be interesting to see how they get on.

Aware it's the 28th of July but having been to several pre season games for the first time in a few years I'm predicting that we take the league by storm and win it with a couple of games left in April... Really, genuinely excited about our attacking talent this season... Only the inevitable injuries and the depth in the squad concern me

Lcbdagger wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2026 10:34 pm Aware it's the 28th of July but having been to several pre season games for the first time in a few years I'm predicting that we take the league by storm and win it with a couple of games left in April... Really, genuinely excited about our attacking talent this season... Only the inevitable injuries and the depth in the squad concern me

I like your optimism and hope you are right but think with other teams strengthening their squads it will be far from easy. Also in the case of Andy Carroll, we obviously have a top striker who can score goals but can we rely on him playing a reasonable amount of games this season without being sidelined with injuries?
With us having to play both Dorking and Torquay in the first few games it will just show how good we are then.

len wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2026 10:50 am

Lcbdagger wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2026 10:34 pm Aware it's the 28th of July but having been to several pre season games for the first time in a few years I'm predicting that we take the league by storm and win it with a couple of games left in April... Really, genuinely excited about our attacking talent this season... Only the inevitable injuries and the depth in the squad concern me

I like your optimism and hope you are right but think with other teams strengthening their squads it will be far from easy. Also in the case of Andy Carroll, we obviously have a top striker who can score goals but can we rely on him playing a reasonable amount of games this season without being sidelined with injuries?
With us having to play both Dorking and Torquay in the first few games it will just show how good we are then.

Aware he scored a few pre-season goals but I have personally preferred our style of play in the games I have seen where AC is not leading the line and we have Leech with two attacking wingers alongside him... I feel we are a far better team in attack without Carroll than we were last season where we felt bereft of any goal threat without him.

Also aware yesterday night wasn't the best example, but I do feel we have a better central midfield than the last few years... Last season, in particular we had months at a time where the midfield got absolutely run over by every single opposition we faced, Part Time and Full Time.

Early permission request to greatly overexaggerate our League Title run if we have twelve points at the end of august from the first 6 games

len wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2026 10:50 am
With us having to play both Dorking and Torquay in the first few games it will just show how good we are then.

Get those games over with before injuries set in could be a positive. I like our chances of this over coming out slow being down the table very early in the season.