It’s Been A Woeful Season

So, as the dust settles on another season for Rotherham United I think a lot of us are thankful it’s all over and looking forward to next season in League One under the guidance of Steve Evans and Paul Raynor.

It’s been an annus horribilis to quote the dear late Queen for us Millers fans and although we won four of our six friendly games it all went downhill after that.

We played Stoke City twice in August at the bet365 stadium, losing four-one in the league and, when you thought we might want to show a bit of pride in the League Cup game we rolled over and lost six-one and that’s after it had taken a penalty shoot-out at home against League Two Morecambe to get to the second round.

Our first win came at home in September, surprisingly perhaps against Norwich City, our next over seven weeks later against Coventry City. We had just three more wins in the season, all, as us Millers fans know, at home, the last of those being the final game of the season when we scored five goals against Cardiff City which was three more than we’d managed in the two months previous.

After gaining just eleven points and after a particularly poor performance in a five-nil loss at Watford, Chairman, Tony Stewart, had had enough and November saw Manager Matt Taylor sacked. Taylor’s number two Wayne Carlisle took over for four games, fared not much better although we did get a point in a home draw against a much fancied for promotion Leeds United. Now next to bottom in the table mid-December saw the Millers with a Head Coach instead of a manager with Leam Richardson taking a turn in the dugout. He lasted twenty-four matches, got us ten points, took us to the bottom of the table and saw us relegated before he got his cards on 17th April. Before the seat was allowed to cool in stepped Steve Evans who helped the Millers get four points in three games as well as fetching back some injured players who appear to have made miraculous recoveries.

Injuries have been the main talking point throughout the season. If you’ve played in a Rotherham shirt and not been out with an injury this season I think you can count yourselves lucky – there hasn’t been many.

So, yes it’s been a woeful season, once relegated many fans gave up going to watch another humiliating performance.

But if nothing else Steve Evans has brought a bit of a smile to our faces since coming back – he’s promised us the golden land. Can he deliver? We can only wait and see although, I can guarantee, it won’t be boring.

And, as D:Ream say ‘things can only get better’.

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