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.
http://theboysfromupthehill.blogs ... me.html
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!).
Home form
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Re: Home form
Or the optimist says "we're unbeaten at home"..."The Boys from Up the Hill" wrote: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.
http://theboysfromupthehill.blogs ... me.html
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!).
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Here's another of those depressing Football 365 tables:
http://stats.football365.com/d ... st.html
Why?
http://stats.football365.com/d ... st.html
Why?
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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."Ancient Colin" wrote:Here's another of those depressing Football 365 tables:
http://stats.football365.com/d ... st.html
Why?
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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."Ancient Colin" wrote:Here's another of those depressing Football 365 tables:
http://stats.football365.com/d ... st.html
Why?
The bottom 5 of this interesting but meaningless table contain the teams in 1st 5th 8th & 9th position in the league table for real.
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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."Baboo" wrote: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."Ancient Colin" wrote:Here's another of those depressing Football 365 tables:
http://stats.football365.com/d ... st.html
Why?
The bottom 5 of this interesting but meaningless table contain the teams in 1st 5th 8th & 9th position in the league table for real.
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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."Baboo" wrote: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."Ancient Colin" wrote:Here's another of those depressing Football 365 tables:
http://stats.football365.com/d ... st.html
Why?
The bottom 5 of this interesting but meaningless table contain the teams in 1st 5th 8th & 9th position in the league table for real.
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The results at home 'aren't actually so bad', but they are really not so good either."The Boys from Up the Hill" wrote:"Baboo" wrote:"Ancient Colin" wrote: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.
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.
The "Points lost" 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:
Conceding twice as many as we score in the second 45 minutes.
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