Uh, but the situation has gone south and gone south quickly.

It's definitely the hope that kills you.

Um, yeah.

And it's the sort of thing where I was really afraid to get excited.

But when Jerome came to the club, going into this year, uh, sort of having a team that had played together already for a year, was very hopeful, especially at the start of this year with the results.

It's, like, regardless of the Jerome stuff, which is obviously what we're gonna talk about.

But even just the way that results have slid, um, since that promising start to the year, and some of the injuries that we've had in the middle, it's just, um, it is, it's the hope that has, has killed me.

N- so what has happened since then?