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[The Boys from Up the Hill]

With our home form looking a bit sad, with only one win and four draws from our first five games, I thought I'd have a look at why results have been a little bit on the poor side.

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Despite all the doom and gloom around the place I think we're actually in a pretty decent position and we only really need to iron out a few things, rather tham make the wholesale changes I've seen suggested elsewhere (but not on this venerable forum, I hasten to add!).

[recordmeister]

With our home form looking a bit sad, with only one win and four draws from our first five games, I thought I'd have a look at why results have been a little bit on the poor side.

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Despite all the doom and gloom around the place I think we're actually in a pretty decent position and we only really need to iron out a few things, rather tham make the wholesale changes I've seen suggested elsewhere (but not on this venerable forum, I hasten to add!).

Or the optimist says &quotwe're unbeaten at home&quot...

[Ancient Colin]

Here's another of those depressing Football 365 tables:

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Why?

[The Boys from Up the Hill]

Here's another of those depressing Football 365 tables:

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Why?

I hadn't noticed that table, it would have been perfect for my article! This is what we need to deal with most, the home form is a symptom of not being able to hold onto a lead rather than the other way round, in my opinion.

[Baboo]

Here's another of those depressing Football 365 tables:

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Why?

If only we were an Aldershot, Port Vale or Torquay. But ..... we are above all 3 in the League so we must be doing something else right, like getting the lead in the first place. Perhaps we'd all be a lot happier if those 4 home draws had come after being behind.


The bottom 5 of this interesting but meaningless table contain the teams in 1st 5th 8th &amp 9th position in the league table for real.

[Radley Rambler]

Here's another of those depressing Football 365 tables:

http&#58//stats&#46football365&#46com/d ... st&#46html

Why?

If only we were an Aldershot, Port Vale or Torquay. But ..... we are above all 3 in the League so we must be doing something else right, like getting the lead in the first place. Perhaps we'd all be a lot happier if those 4 home draws had come after being behind.


The bottom 5 of this interesting but meaningless table contain the teams in 1st 5th 8th &amp 9th position in the league table for real.

Quite - I see that the bottom club Plymouth are 17th in this table having only dropped one point when they have been winning, what a smashing side - THAT'S BECAUSE THEY HAVE ONLY BEEN WINNING ON TWO OCCASIONS - FFS.

[The Boys from Up the Hill]

Here's another of those depressing Football 365 tables:

http&#58//stats&#46football365&#46com/d ... st&#46html

Why?

If only we were an Aldershot, Port Vale or Torquay. But ..... we are above all 3 in the League so we must be doing something else right, like getting the lead in the first place. Perhaps we'd all be a lot happier if those 4 home draws had come after being behind.


The bottom 5 of this interesting but meaningless table contain the teams in 1st 5th 8th &amp 9th position in the league table for real.

That's exactly it, it's the manner of the draws that have disappointed people - because we'd been leading and lost two points. The results themselves aren't actually so bad, we're in a decent position in the table and are right in the playoff mix-up with just a few points separating us from top spot. I think we'll solve this problem of throwing away leads and once we do that we'll be right up there.

[Paul Cooper]

Here's another of those depressing Football 365 tables:

The results themselves aren't actually so bad, we're in a decent position in the table and are right in the playoff mix-up with just a few points separating us from top spot. I think we'll solve this problem of throwing away leads and once we do that we'll be right up there.

The results at home 'aren't actually so bad', but they are really not so good either.

People are frustrated becuase there have been wasted opportunities and we realyl should be 4-6 points better off which would have put us in a really good position.

Drawing one or two games having been ahead is one thing, but when it happens regularly, there is something wrong.

I believe that CW can sort this out as we certainly need to start winning home games regularly if we want to think about going up.

[SmileyMan]

The &quotPoints lost&quot table is an artifical result of the difference between the two real causes of our 'problems' (if 8th in the league and 4 points off the lead are actually problems)

Our first half performances:
http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D3/fsthalf.html

and our second half performances
http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D3/sndhalf.html

For posterity's sake, the relevant lines today are:

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           P  W  D  L   F  A
1st half  10  8  1  1  10  3	
2nd half  10  1  4  5   3  7

Conceding twice as many as we score in the second 45 minutes.