Otis
Well-Known Member
Yeovil 65% - City 35%
City 43% - Sheff Utd. 57%
City 56% - Bury 43%
Crewe 54% - City 46%
City 61% - Stevenage 39%
Tranmere 50% - City 50%
Shrewsbury 53% - City 47%
City 49% - Carlisle 51%
Oldham 52% - City 48%
City 36% - MK 64%
City 53% - Bournemouth 47%
Swindon 44% - City 56%
City 50% - Notts C 50%
Brentford 39% - City 61%
Leyton O 43% - City 57%
City 44% - Crawley 56%
City 46% - Scunthorpe 54%
Okay, possession isn't everything and we are all very much aware of that, but barring own goals you can't score if you haven't got the ball.
17 games in. In only 6 of those have we dominated possession. Doesn't quite fit in with this notion of us having a good squad and good players for this division does it. And you have to recall, this is us being a so called passing team, both under AT and MR.
We have played 9 league games at home. In only 3 of those have we had the best of possession.
Pretty certain that pre-season most of us would have believed that we would dominate possession at home but may have found teams hard to break down. Facts say that at home the opposition are having much more of the ball. That points to something drastically wrong.
That points to us simply not being good enough.
The stats away point to us having the better of possession in 3 of 8 games. This of course is to be more expected as usually the home team do indeed dominate possession.
As I say, possession isn't everything, but with a squad of supposed quality players, in a team supposedly playing passing, possession football and building from the back, this I feel is a stark warning that we simply aren't good enough and aren't going anywhere and certainly nowhere close to anything like play-off places.
Add to all this the fact that we have lost 19 points from winning positions (case here for the 2 stats being linked) then the picture does look very bleak.
Take McGoldrick out of our team and you would have to say that we pretty much have nothing. And that is a big, big worry.
City 43% - Sheff Utd. 57%
City 56% - Bury 43%
Crewe 54% - City 46%
City 61% - Stevenage 39%
Tranmere 50% - City 50%
Shrewsbury 53% - City 47%
City 49% - Carlisle 51%
Oldham 52% - City 48%
City 36% - MK 64%
City 53% - Bournemouth 47%
Swindon 44% - City 56%
City 50% - Notts C 50%
Brentford 39% - City 61%
Leyton O 43% - City 57%
City 44% - Crawley 56%
City 46% - Scunthorpe 54%
Okay, possession isn't everything and we are all very much aware of that, but barring own goals you can't score if you haven't got the ball.
17 games in. In only 6 of those have we dominated possession. Doesn't quite fit in with this notion of us having a good squad and good players for this division does it. And you have to recall, this is us being a so called passing team, both under AT and MR.
We have played 9 league games at home. In only 3 of those have we had the best of possession.
Pretty certain that pre-season most of us would have believed that we would dominate possession at home but may have found teams hard to break down. Facts say that at home the opposition are having much more of the ball. That points to something drastically wrong.
That points to us simply not being good enough.
The stats away point to us having the better of possession in 3 of 8 games. This of course is to be more expected as usually the home team do indeed dominate possession.
As I say, possession isn't everything, but with a squad of supposed quality players, in a team supposedly playing passing, possession football and building from the back, this I feel is a stark warning that we simply aren't good enough and aren't going anywhere and certainly nowhere close to anything like play-off places.
Add to all this the fact that we have lost 19 points from winning positions (case here for the 2 stats being linked) then the picture does look very bleak.
Take McGoldrick out of our team and you would have to say that we pretty much have nothing. And that is a big, big worry.
