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We're almost to the midpoint of the season, 20 matches in, so i'll stop and do a midseason update in a few matches, but at this point I'm simply stunned at how one incredible player is able to carry a team at this level. This is essentially the same team that won league 2 last year. Five players on this team, including 3 starters (Lynch, Nikolaou, Harsanyi), were guys that helped us win the Blue Square Premier league what seems like ages ago now.
They're obviously decent players, but really, how far does this team go without Constantino? We have 47 goals in competitive play (league + various cups). Constantino has 27 of them. Ed Upson has 7 but at least 4 of those are penalties. Last year we had tons of players put up really great ratings, a few guys over 7.4 average and many more over 7.2. Constantino was the best but others were not far behind... This year? Constantino 7.90, our next best player is a tie between Paulo and Harsanyi at 7.26.
Murphy's Law Style Prediction: Constantino carries us to promotion this year into the Championship, we aren't able to loan him in next year, can't find anyone else similar to him to replace him, find that we've jumped way way too far too fast, and go 3-3-40.
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