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Post by surreystokie on Mar 30, 2008 18:03:56 GMT
I'm not a statictician, but yesterday's results said it all, with Brstol City, West Brom Charlton and Wolves all scoring 92nd/93rd minute goals. To me, it isn't just that we seem to score so few final-minute goals but that I have little confidence that we ever will.
How many of the following boxes do you think we tick, with regard to why this is so?
1) Lack of match fitness.
2) Getting pushed back being in the managerial genes.
3) Lack of leadership on the field, to inspire a winning mentality.
4) Too infrequent 'get at 'em quick' ploy, as at The Hawthorns.
5) Lack of belief.
I thought that we did well, in many other respects yesterday and am still hopeful. The first half performance belied our reputation as hoofers and the new lads provided encouragement, even if Shola was, not unexpectedly, hyper. But if we don't get automatic promotion, I fear that we'll get done in the play-offs because of the above.
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Post by R.I.P Fullers Nan on Mar 30, 2008 18:21:08 GMT
Bristol City have scored 7 last minutes goals. West Brom have scored 6 nd Watford 4 with stoke scoring 3 (Correct me if wrong!) So your theory is correct  |
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Post by PotterLog on Mar 30, 2008 18:25:12 GMT
Bristol City have scored 7 last minutes goals. West Brom have scored 6 nd Watford 4 with stoke scoring 3 (Correct me if wrong!) So your theory is correct Not sure that is correct tbh. According to football365: Injury-time goals: WBA: 3 Stoke: 2 Bristol: 1 Hull: 1 Watford: 0 |
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Post by RobPa on Mar 30, 2008 19:25:34 GMT
bristol have scored more, i can remember them drawing to palace on tv aswell as yesterda
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Post by Admin on Mar 30, 2008 19:30:36 GMT
Bristol City have scored 7 last minutes goals. West Brom have scored 6 nd Watford 4 with stoke scoring 3 (Correct me if wrong!) So your theory is correct Not sure that is correct tbh. According to football365: Injury-time goals: WBA: 3 Stoke: 2 Bristol: 1 Hull: 1 Watford: 0 It's definitely seven.... and quite a lot in the last ten minutes too. Just counted them on football 365. stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/teams/BristolCty.html |
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Post by bcfc4life88 on Mar 30, 2008 19:31:33 GMT
Bristol City have scored 7 last minutes goals. West Brom have scored 6 nd Watford 4 with stoke scoring 3 (Correct me if wrong!) So your theory is correct Not sure that is correct tbh. According to football365: Injury-time goals: WBA: 3 Stoke: 2 Bristol: 1 Hull: 1 Watford: 0 Thats not correct like someone said the one vs palace is another theres many more but cba to think of them all, prob will be around 5/6/7 of them though |
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Post by beagriestache on Mar 30, 2008 20:57:25 GMT
Good post this.
I fear you may be right about the play-offs, I think our only chance of going up this season is automatically.
To change tack slightly from the original post, what is more important in the long run is to establish ourselves as a regular play-off team a la Birmingham City who had about 2 or 3 cracks at it before going up.
I'd hate to see us do something stupid like get rid of Pulis if we don't go up. The most successful clubs stick with managers and allow them time to learn and develop a team. Even the most one-eyed follower of Stoke (Spiderman anyone!) would have to agree that the following equals progress: keeping us up, mid table safety, play-off hopefuls, promotion hopefuls and play-off certainties.
However, if I was TP and bothered to read this board (and I hope to God he doesn't) I'd jump at the first half decent club to offer me a job (Southampton, Charlton, Sheff Utd spring to mind). There is a truly unbelievable amount of negativity which is aimed at Pulis from some on here which appears to originate from the fact that we don't win games 4-0 and play free-flowing football in the process. A little more patience and this might be the kind of football we are playing in a couple of seasons once we're established as a team that's always in the play-offs and therefore more likely to attract the better players. There is a bigger picture out there which a lot of posters on here fail to see. I'm convinced Pulis will take a club into the top flight one day and I just hope it's us.
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Post by serpico on Mar 30, 2008 21:50:36 GMT
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Post by PotterLog on Mar 30, 2008 22:17:51 GMT
Not sure that is correct tbh. According to football365: Injury-time goals: WBA: 3 Stoke: 2 Bristol: 1 Hull: 1 Watford: 0 It's definitely seven.... and quite a lot in the last ten minutes too. Just counted them on football 365. stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/teams/BristolCty.htmlI used that same link Smudge - there's a goal time distribution graph further down - it gives it as one in actual injury-time. Eleven in the last five minutes, but we've got eight in that time too... |
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