Goals - how have we fared so far this season?

A year ago I remember discovering that we'd made one of our worst ever starts to a season in front of goal, but also one of the best in terms of defence. Games weren't particularly eventful.

This is our 97th season as a league team. A year ago after our first 7 games in all competitions we had scored 3 goals, the worst ever after 7 games. This season we've netted 13 goals, which is a significant improvement on last season and is ranked 15th from all of our league seasons. Dave Jones' sides in 2008/09 and 2009/10 scored 17 and 16 respectively, Malky's 2011/12 side scored 15. 13 goals is the same as Warnock's promotion side scored after 7 and is 1 more than Malky's Championship Champions. 21 is our best, set at the start of the 1937/38 season, where, in 4 home games, we scored 5 twice and 4 twice.

Defensively, things don't look so good. A year ago our relegation scrappers had conceded just 7 from 7. This season we've conceded 13 in all competitions, ranked 81st of 97 seasons. Only once since 2000 have we conceded more, Warnock's Premier League side. 22 goals is our worst, achieved in 1955/56. Of the 15 seasons where we have conceded more, we've gone down on 5 occasions and just avoided relegation on a further 8.

At least with all the goals being scored we've had some excitement.

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Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee

A year ago I remember discovering that we'd made one of our worst ever starts to a season in front of goal, but also one of the best in terms of defence. Games weren't particularly eventful.

This is our 97th season as a league team. A year ago after our first 7 games in all competitions we had scored 3 goals, the worst ever after 7 games. This season we've netted 13 goals, which is a significant improvement on last season and is ranked 15th from all of our league seasons. Dave Jones' sides in 2008/09 and 2009/10 scored 17 and 16 respectively, Malky's 2011/12 side scored 15. 13 goals is the same as Warnock's promotion side scored after 7 and is 1 more than Malky's Championship Champions. 21 is our best, set at the start of the 1937/38 season, where, in 4 home games, we scored 5 twice and 4 twice.

Defensively, things don't look so good. A year ago our relegation scrappers had conceded just 7 from 7. This season we've conceded 13 in all competitions, ranked 81st of 97 seasons. Only once since 2000 have we conceded more, Warnock's Premier League side. 22 goals is our worst, achieved in 1955/56. Of the 15 seasons where we have conceded more, we've gone down on 5 occasions and just avoided relegation on a further 8.

At least with all the goals being scored we've had some excitement.

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Don't expect to get many replies to anything remotely positive on here.

I think we should have scored a few more too, far better in attack than any recent season by my reckoning. Defence is an issue but we have had some difficult away games so probably best to wait and see what happens when we have an easier run.

Oddly enough it's not scoring goals that's the problem...it's letting them in with half asleep dozey zombie like defenders

I saw a stat yesterday, that outside the PL top 6, we are the 7th highest scorers this century in the football league.

We must've been 1st until a few years ago :hehe:

So if the whole team can learn to defend a bit better and cut the stupid goals we can quickly turn draws into wins and loses into draws and fly up the table, it's a good problem to have compared to last year when we couldn't score.

A good defensive coach should sort this out easily, also on the plus side the keeper is ten times better, and Goutas can be moved to back up with Panzo hopefully a lot better.

Siopis will have had a bit more time to work with the team and Panzo also should be ready for tomorrow, a great time to get a first clean sheet!