Quote Originally Posted by LeningradCowboy View Post
It is the best tactic available for the players in our team. We've won more games this season since we stopped trying to play possession football and started going direct and playing for set pieces.
Have we ever played possession football?

According to whoscored.com we are joint third in the league for long balls played on average per game with 79. Warnock's gradually behind on 78 per game.

We are also ranked 19th in the league for average amount of short passes per game with 290.

We are 16th in relation to goals from open play with 10
We rank 1st for goals from set pieces.

We are 17th for possession per game with 47.7%. A whole 1.6% ahead of Warnock's Boro.


For those who suggest that we have moved that far from Warnock's style, the stats don't really suggest it. Or is it that Harris wasn't that different to Warnock to begin with? Again, the stats didn't suggest he was.

All these stats too are when Harris has supposedly tried to play football at stages during times this season. The short pass numbers and possession percentage would be even lower with more long balls. We would be near the top with long balls though. We're in the long ball play off places comfortably anyway though.