Complex sentence: The club finished in 14th place in the league for the 2004/2005 season, 9 places below the fifth place finish club chairman Freddy Shepherd had deemed "not good enough" 12 months earlier.
Split into simpler sentences: The club finished in 14th place in the league for the 2004--05 season, nine places below the fifth place finish. Chairman Freddy Shepherd had deemed "not good enough" 12 months earlier.