Regardless of whether you believe our fixtures were purposefully ordered in a way to maximise difficulty over the course of the season or if it was just the luck of the defined randomisation used to create the fixture list…
I don’t think it is unreasonable to assume the league will be doing everything they can to avoid us winning it for the fourth time on the trot.
So I can’t imagine—however it came about—they are especially unhappy with our schedule.
That said, we’ve had difficult schedules from the off in previous seasons, including this past one, and things worked out fairly well.
I expect other types of interventions to be much more assertive and impactful than this.