I can't believe Gustard got the HoR job by saying to the board his aim was to avoid relegation and for team not to play terribly.
A minimum objective each season for any head coach has to be a top six finish - unless you are in charge of the newly promoted team.
John Kingston said on his departure that he left the club with its best ever squad. It is certainly stuffed full of internationals and there is no reason why the form they sporadically show in games cannot be more consistently applied to give a top six finish.
As I said before, we should have a good idea of the season to come by the end of October.
Coaches like to break the season down into sets of five or six games with an associated series of targets. Losing to Bristol and/or Wuzz would be a mini disaster and require a serious change of plans by the coaching team.
May the force be with our rookie HoR.