L1 Manager Win Percentages (4 Viewers)

Earlsdon-Loyal-Blue said:

Fans were left leaving the Ricoh contemplating driving into a ditch when Slade was in charge

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I never left a game early before Slade became manager. I ended up leaving the last 2 home games under him early, one being with half an hour to go.

Deleted member 5849 said:

If he did, he was dead right!

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Yes he was right, but would a manager admit that in an interview one third of the way through the season with the January window still to come if he

Grendel said:

Peterborough didn't have realistic ambitions - they were mid table. Also dismissing the first three games makes no sense. Venus started winning as soon as he became manager and Slades best performance was the first home game.

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Peterborough were 8 points off the playoffs when we played them with 5 games left. Maybe realistic was not the most appropriate word but I certainly wouldn't have expected my team to give up under those circumstances. your original post talked about uninterested opposition.

SBAndy said:

I never left a game early before Slade became manager. I ended up leaving the last 2 home games under him early, one being with half an hour to go.

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Me too, at Northampton away. Although it was the performance of some of our fans, rather than the players, that caused me and 4 mates to bugger off back to the pub when the second goal went in.

2 of the 4 did the same at half time at the Cambridge game.......that one required too much dedication from me, couldn't raise the enthusiasm for that one!

Grendel said:

This is always the problem with statistics especially over a relatively short time period.

Venus stats show a short term blip at the beginning of his tenure. By the end he'd lost 7 successive league games.

If Slades team had hung on for a couple more minutes he'd have won 3 more games in his tenure fairly early on as well.

Robins has won home games but at the end of the season against uninterested opposition mostly. Few games where the opposition had something to play for we won. Even under that clueless buffoon Mowbray we won several meaningless games at the end of last season as well.

The common denominator is the squad was appalling uncompetitive in big games and never good enough.

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I agree that the statistics can often be skewed as for 3 of our managers this season, they were only in charge for a short period of time. And you're right about Venus, he was very much on the downer after an initial good blip - which the win percentage doesn't reflect.

However the one point that people raise, (not necessarily yourself), that bugs me, is the argument that Slade was unlucky because we conceded some goals in the last few minutes that should have been wins....sorry but football doesn't work like that - it's a 90 minute game, not an 87 minute game. Conceding continually in the last few minutes is sloppy and shows a lack of proffesionalism in closing the game out.

Should the referees start reducing the games to 87 minutes long when they see Slade on the touchline with his cap on?