Originally Posted by Feed Me

Benitez has actually made them a more consistent outfit year on year in the league. We all (rightfully so) revel in taking the piss out of the Dippers but they lost less games than us last season, so they must be going in the right direction.

The problem is that their level of improvement is cancelled out by the improvement made by the other three clubs.

I doubt signings like Dossena and Degen will bridge the gap though. Neither will replacing Alonso with Barry, I hope.