No excuses here we stink and its called a rebuild. But there are some serious differences:
The difference is, we lost our spine (1.Beale,6.Soward,7.Hornby and 9.Young) that we had last season. You kept most of yours (1.LOLtzen,6.Bunji,7.Braith,9.Farah).
The difference is, we have 9 injuries atm (4 of our best players Cooper, Beale, Stanley and Hunt out for the season). Tigers have 4 players injured and only LOLtzen is out for the season.
The difference is, the majority of us didnt think we were top 4 material, in fact it was a tiny portion of our fan base that were optimistically dreaming of such a performance. Your lot however had themselves booked in for the premiership in February.