Sadly I think the chances of a repeat of last season are nil. I think that both Adams and the club's cheap and cheerful transfer strategy have been found out at this level. People seem to think that getting us promoted from the bottom division at the second attempt makes him some sort of messiah but even then the evidence was that we'd struggle against better teams as we quite often embarrassed (particularly at home) by teams with fluidity and movement. That's why there were posters bemoaning Adams tactics even during a promotion season whilst others were just happy that we were winning more than we lost. The long termists could see that even at that level Adams was painfully bereft of a plan B. More often than not games were won by a moment of brilliance by Carey in a division where it didn't matter if the opposition stuck 2 or 3 players around him.
Last season Adams did eventually abandon his favourite formula and played with more attacking intent for half a season, but he could afford to because he had put together a defence that was capable of dealing with swift counter attacks, albeit sometimes with last gasp heroics. I don't think we can underestimate the heroics of Matthews, Vyner or Threlkeld all of whom pulled off last ditch saves or goal line blocks in the last few weeks of the season. Two of those players were loans and one Adams fell out with and one went elsewhere because we wouldn't meet his wage requirements, and now the defence is significantly weaker meaning that even if Adams decides to go to a more attacking format our entirely new, cumbersome, calamitous Centre backs are going to be embarrassed by counter attacks over and over again.
The team can't defend so it can't attack