mainly down to how poor the rest have been
I reckon we'd be about 8-10 points worse off
we'd won 1 away game in 12 months, so I doubt Brighton, Palace and Forest wins would all have happened, maybe 1 certainly not all 3. Not the way we were playing.
A few draws would have been defeats too
We had 1 win in 11 when he was sacked
Form is a greater measure of how things would have gone, than previous seasons results