says captain Joe Ralls
you can't argue much with that . A chance of a top 10 finish most would have bitten there hand off the start of the season after the disaster of last season.
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says captain Joe Ralls
you can't argue much with that . A chance of a top 10 finish most would have bitten there hand off the start of the season after the disaster of last season.
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If being less creative and worse defensively than a side that nearly went down last season is progress, then hell yes, we've had progress.Originally Posted by MOZZER2
are those statements correct? I thought we had scored more?
"The only thing that's been lacking this season has been the consistency..."
Sure Joe, that's the only thing that has been lacking.
Post mentions creativity, we've scored more because of set piece goals, with nobody classes as creative.
I'm not counting set pieces. As a creative attacking unit from open play we are worse than we have been for many a year.
More goals and more points, it’s a good start.
If scoring this amount from set pieces was so easy everyone would be doing it as regularly as us, indeed we would have last season.
A while ago we'd almost scored double the amount of goals from set pieces as any other side in the Championship. That gap has narrowed.
In 2020/21 we scored 27 from open play.
In 2021/22 we scored 29 from open play.
In 2022/23 we scored 28 from open play.
This season we've scored 19. Only 4 teams across the 4 divisions have scored less from open play on average per game than us. That's embarrassing. That shows how utterly clueless we are when we attack. When goals from set pieces dry up, we lose games.
We might have to agree to disagree here, but if our main aim is hoping to score from set pieces because we're rubbish as an attacking force, I couldn't care less how many games we've managed to pinch, it's a fact that, without set pieces, we'd be in the bottom 3. That's how crap our football has been this season.
More points
Not for the first 13 games with Rambo, Ugbo, and O'Dowda we weren't, and we desperately need a Striker.
Did you prefer the excitement of a relegation battle saved only by points deductions and Kaba's goals.
He doesn't say "at the club" like your title states though.
He is talking about on the pitch.
Your post insinuates things at the club are better..like an overall view...some of us would argue this is not the case
Rambo was injured after 6 league games (don't remember him featuring in the cup games). O'Dowda only lasted 4 before injury.
Yes, they were influential during that time and for a short period following injury and improved confidence as performances and goals scored proved.
If they get fully fit I would expect results and performances to improve.
You have posted some pretty silly things on here over the years but this one takes the biscuit. This season in the league we have got more points, scored more goals, let fewer goals in, have a win percentage of over 42% (as opposed to 28%) and will finish at least ten places higher than we did last season. If you don’t think that is progress then really there is no hope for you. You have become so entrenched in your sea of negativity that you appear to have lost touch with reality.
We conceded fifty eight goals last season in the league and we’ve let in fifty four this time with six games to play - we’re on track to concede between three and five more goals than in 22/23.
Exciting in it
Hudson all season and we'd have conceded less again and gone down, it's about balance.
I would guess we conceded a lot of those goals in the first thirteen games when were were more entertaining.
None of which alters the fact that what dml said is very likely to be wrong.
All irrelevant as the other board says there is a big news on the way about the summer that will be good news for "us and the club" not sure if they meant the fans in general or just a select few 🤔
Don't hold your breath tho or you may become a smurf but bring on the brave new world 🙄😂
We have made progress and some players like Ralls , NG , Collins , Goutas , Grant , Siopis ,Alnwick,Bowler many of whom are laons or free's , so for me yes progress has been made
Rambo, O'Dowda badly missed .
Don't see Colwill delivering much via 36 games this season .26 last season , you can't say he hasn't played under the current Mgr
Biggest feck up we have needed a centre forward since Moore stopped playing for us .
I've not heard of any protests!! oh progress. I digress
Have you eaten a bag of magic mushrooms today ?
Well, they've proved time and time again that they're ITK.
What could it be?
Some new CDs for the PA system?
A new toilet paper supplier?
Visit Malaysia to be replaced by Go To Malaysia?
I was thinking more of a takeover with all corner flags being embroidered with the initials SH and free ice creams for all or sheep's bollocks for dissenters
Here’s a question for you. How do we get the set pieces (corners/free kicks) that we score these goals from?
My, no evidence, belief is that they come from us moving the ball forward in an often well worked way but then our end product (from not very good forward play) are tame shots that are deflected by defenders for corners. We’d all like to see more of those shots hit the back of the net directly BUT the fact that we have someone who delivers a good corner more often than not I.e. Joe Ralls, means that we score from a good percentage and are therefore not suffering from relegation anxiety this year. This analysis is another way of saying the team as a whole is pretty good but we’re lacking the attackers who’ve got the killer instinct. We are holding on to the ball better than last season. The glaringly obvious occasion when we didn’t was Swansea where we reverted to hit and hope and looked like we were crapping ourselves every time the ball came near us.
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