Invicta Dynamos head coach Karl Lennon reflects on their 2023/24 season after play-off quarter-final exit

Invicta Dynamos head coach Karl Lennon believes they will be better off for the setbacks they’ve experienced in the past season.

Lennon himself has learned plenty from a season which has seen them finish a place lower than they did a year ago but have picked up more points.

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Assessing the past season, which ended with a play-off quarter-final defeat to Solent Devils last week, Lennon said: “We all know that the potential within our team was significant and there is no question the ability that we possess was probably worthy of a place better than where we finished but you are only as good as your results aren’t you?

“Whilst the ability is there, nothing is a given, you have to take it, and I think we were not good enough in big moments that came to us in the course of the season and ultimately the table doesn’t lie.

“I have learned a lot and more so around the emotional part of players, this year more than last year, where I thought we had quite a stable room in terms of character and ability, this year I think we have been a bit more wobbly, which isn’t good, but then that is down to me to manage that better moving forward.

“While it has been a difficult year, no question, and we have had our incidents that have really shaped our season - and I don’t think a lot of them have been brought on by us, I do feel that we will be better for it, you have to be.

“A drop on a place (in the table) from last year but we’re two points behind the team in fourth and that is not a million miles away.

“We made more points than we did last year so that shows progression. We are two or three results off being up there in second or third, not a million miles away, and across the last two years we