Given Cardiff City are coming off the back of their worst-ever finish since being promoted to the second tier in 2003, the only way, surely, is up.
Last year saw the culmination of a number of things all go badly wrong. Aging players clinging on to the final year of their contracts, a striker in Kieffer Moore who was misfiring after a failed Premier League move in the summer and Mick McCarthy who doubled down on his dire football.
This year, fortunately for Cardiff, it's all change. Whether that is a change for the better in terms of ultimate league position remains to be seen, but the moves made behind the scenes certainly appear to be for the betterment of the club on paper.
