My biggest worry would be if we have lapsed into a similarly relaxed mentality to that which appeared to set in when we reached mathematical safety in 2014/15, and which we never seemed to recover from the following season when we ended up getting relegated. I still have huge faith in Phil and Neil to lead us forward, but that is my main concern at present.
I get your point, however you could look at that the other way and that the lads might have found it hard to motivate themselves to go again after such a successful first season, which is clearly no longer the case.
With 2014/15 unless I'm mistaken I think some of our best players (Young to York? Senior to Darlington?) were cherry picked and not adequately replaced, whereas I can't see many of the current lot being poached just yet.
Yes, Young and Senior left us in the summer of 2010, contributing to our relegation in 2011.
I completely agree with the point about the parallel with the 2014-15 season. One other thing that cost us in 2015-16 is that we ran with a small squad and suffered a lot of injuries. It looks like we're able to run with a bigger squad at the moment which should help but I still think we have a huge battle on our hands to stay in this division next season based on current performances.
The 2015/16 season also saw us pay the price for some distinctly substandard recruitment during the pre-season e.g. George Bowerman, Josh O'Keefe and the infamous Anthony Griffith.
Ah yes, getting my relegation seasons mixed up. My mistake.
I think O'Keefe would have worked perfectly fine alongside Moult and Richman in a three-man midfield that season, in a more solid 4-5-1 with either Reeves or Rankine up top, and Ginnelly and AN Other on the wings. I'm sure we actually ran with that for a while, and it contributed to a particular winning streak (or possibly the season before).
Our obsession with playing Lawrie in his 'best position' led to us playing quite a meek 4-4-1-1 which seemed to get ploughed straight through the middle most weeks. Again, happy to be corrected if wrong!