Should it not be?
10 Game Segments... Its baaaaa-aaad !!!!
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River_City_Bantam Squad PlayerP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant P.L. 20/21 Top 10
Right...let us bury this season well and deep, head separately from body, each with a silver stake driven through it, with maybe some crosses and garlic added for good measure, along with anything else suitable that any of you can think of!
(And for @Manningham bantam the answer is no!)
10-game segments
1st 10: 2-1-7, 7-15, 7
2nd 10: 2-1-7, 8-21, 7
3rd 10: 5-2-3, 21-15, 17
4th 10: 1-2-7, 7-17, 5
last 6: 1-2-3, 6-9, 5
Home: 7-4-12, 25-31, 25
Away: 4-4-15, 24-46, 16
Total: 11-8-27, 49-77, 41
Leading/Drawing/Trailing at HT
Leading: 10-3-0, 30-10, 33
Drawing: 1-4-9, 10-22, 7
Trailing: 0-1-18, 9-45, 1
Leading/Trailing at any point
Leading: 11-3-3
Trailing: 0-1-27
(0-0: 4)
Both led and trailed in same match: Blackpool (A), Walsall (A), Bristol Rovers (A)
Managers
Collins: 2-0-4, 4-8, 6
Hopkin: 7-6-15, 34-47, 27
Drury: 0-0-1, 1-5, 0
Bowyer: 2-2-7, 10-17, 8
But wait, there's more:
A quick (i.e. not definitive) look over my lists suggests that in league play we made our top-10 lists for each of:
Fewest: home and total wins; home, away, and total points (3 points for a win era);
Most: home, away, and total defeats; successive home, away, and total defeats; home and total clean sheets against.
I'd imagine that only 1 point gained from a losing position, and our records when drawing or trailing at the half, are also firmly amongst our worst ever.
Good news!
Just to end on a happy note...we also made our top-10 list for most successive clean sheets at home, and we were undefeated when taking a lead into half-time.
Thank heavens this season is over!
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River_City_Bantam Squad PlayerP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant P.L. 20/21 Top 10
Time for an update, depressing as it may be...
1st 10: 2-1-7 7-15 7
2nd 10: 2-1-7 8-21 7
Despite a few hints of better times ahead, this was another disastrous segment. We continue on pace for 32 points, with 34 goals for and 83 goals against. We must improve dramatically or we will be relegated, with a very good chance of being the bottom side.
14 points from our first 20 matches is our joint third-worst total ever, after the 9 (when converted) of the 1926 season and the 12 of 2000. We also had 14 (when converted) in the 1964 season.
A few other breakdowns:
Home: 2-1-7 7-15 7
Away: 2-1-7 8-21 7
Leading at HT: 4-1-0
Drawing: 0-1-5
Trailing: 0-0-9
Collins: 2-0-4 4-8 6
Hopkin: 2-2-10 11-28 8
VP is not a fortress, and we have almost no ability to gain points from losing or even drawing positions.
Dare I hope that the next update will be more upbeat? We have some winnable matches coming up, and the January transfer window will play a role as well.
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JonButterfield Star PlayerQatar 2022 Entrant P.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant
So I'm going:
Wins: Plymouth, Southend, Scunthorpe, Rochdale, Shrewsbury
Draws: Accrington, Walsall, Burton
Losses: Sunderland, Barnsley
W-D-W-L-W-D-W-L-W-D
It's not like I'm even going for consecutive wins
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To give ourselves the best chance of escape,we have to improve the players discipline.Losing two major players prior to one of the hardest away games is just asking for trouble.
You start to make a little progress and then lose two players for discipline issues and it's just shooting ourselves in the foot.
I've seen posts saying Hopkin is always changing the players.How can he not do that? We have a poor,unbalanced squad.The thing that makes that worse is losing numbers minimising options.
We have to stop losing players through suspension,losing through injury is bad enough!River_City_Bantam, bantamdave41 and Aireboro Bantam like this. -
Luckily its not how you start but how you finish.
We badly need goals and from all over.
Think its only 3 different scorers at the minute? Awful return
Hope Hopkin can get his own backroom men in and soonSilverbantam and RonnieBrown like this. -
JonButterfield Star PlayerQatar 2022 Entrant P.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant
Good work, very interesting to see the first 10 was actually the same as the more recent 10 - kind of surprised, actually, because I felt we'd gone backwards if anything results-wise.
I'm willing to throw my hat in the ring and say we'll get far more than the standard 7 points from the next 10 games - I'll double that, and then some, and say we grab an optimistic 18 points.Old city man and Onside like this. -
bantamdave41 Regular StarterP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant Euro 2020
By my reckoning there are permutations..
4 wins, 6 draws, no defeats
5 wins, 3 draws, 2 defeats
6 wins, 0 draws, 4 defeats.
Fixtures : Plymouth (22) away, Walsall (13) home, Scunthorpe (20) home, Sunderland (2) away, Rochdale (17) away, Accrington (11) home, Shrewsbury (15) home, Barnsley (5) away, Southend (14) home and Burton (16) away. ( Position as of tonight, in brackets).
6 of these games are before new reinforcements **may be** brought in. I'm sorry but I struggle to see beyond 12 points in this period.
But, I'm more than happy for you to be correct!!RonnieBrown and JonButterfield like this. -
December could easily decide our fate this early. A continuation of current form and we'll probably be too far gone even before the January window opens. We simply have to start improving and picking up wins. Avoid defeat against Plymouth and we go into two winnable home games - how big they could be. Being in the FA Cup 3rd Round could be a welcome confidence boost as well.River_City_Bantam and Old city man like this. -
River_City_Bantam Squad PlayerP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant P.L. 20/21 Top 10
Update time again, with a somewhat rosier outlook than before.
1st 10: 2-1-7, 7-15, 7
2nd 10: 2-1-7, 8-21, 7
3rd 10: 5-2-3, 21-15, 17
Thanks especially to December, we have improved considerably. We are now on a pace for 48 points, which has guaranteed safety in some seasons. The pace over the last 10 matches is much better, indeed it is a playoff pace. If we could now stay at about a 1.5 points-per-match pace, we'll get to my preferred 55 points. We still concede too many, but our new-found goalscoring touch can cover for that -- as it did today. (I wouldn't want to bank on that always happening, though.) The goal difference has improved greatly over the first 20 matches.
A few other breakdowns:
Home: 6-1-8, 20-22, 19
Away: 3-3-9 16-29 12
Leading at HT: 9-2-0
Drawing: 0-1-5
Trailing: 0-1-12
Collins: 2-0-4, 4-8, 6
Hopkin: 7-4-13, 32-43, 25
We remain awful unless we have a halftime lead, but the Burton point at least broke our duck when trailing at the half. A long way to go yet, but it isn't unreasonable to be hopeful.
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River_City_Bantam Squad PlayerP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant P.L. 20/21 Top 10
Not much commentary needed, beyond oop:. The third segment flattered to deceive, as it turned out, and we are back to the form and prospects of the first two 10-game segments.
1st 10: 2-1-7, 7-15, 7
2nd 10: 2-1-7, 8-21, 7
3rd 10: 5-2-3, 21-15, 17
4th 10: 1-2-7, 7-17, 5
Home: 7-2-11, 24-29, 23
Away: 3-4-13, 19-39, 13
Total: 10-6-24, 43-68, 36
Leading/Drawing/Trailing at HT
Leading: 9-2-0, 26-7, 29
Drawing: 1-3-7, 8-18, 6
Trailing: 0-1-17, 9-43, 1
Leading/Trailing at any point
Leading: 10-2-2
Trailing: 0-1-24
(0-0: 3)
Both led and trailed in same match: Blackpool (A), Walsall (A)
Managers
Collins: 2-0-4, 4-8, 6
Hopkin: 7-6-15, 34-47, 27
Drury: 0-0-1, 1-5, 0
Bowyer: 1-0-4, 4-8, 3
"Hello Div. Four my old friend / We've come to play in you again..."
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River_City_Bantam Squad PlayerP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant P.L. 20/21 Top 10
The goals-for is indeed a proper disaster area. Miller brought the number up to four scorers, and that includes the cups. Our potential main scorer only has two penalties to his credit -- though had the penalty shouts over the past few matches been given, that total could look better. One way or another this needs to change, because even a run of 35 0-0's to close out the season will still see us relegated!
CTRL-ALT-DEL and reboot the season!
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bantamdave41 Regular StarterP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant Euro 2020
2 home goals in 5 games is reflective of the worrying times we currently endure.
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It is grim reading so far and performances have matched the low points tally sadly.
Practically 8 points behind at the minute with our goal differenceRonnieBrown likes this. -
City put in a decent performance, and things will 'look' brighter again. However - Another thrashing could see a 'punch drunk' side having to face Plymouth AwayStop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...How likes this. -
bantamdave41 Regular StarterP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant Euro 2020
So I doff my hat off to you and look forward for your reasoned predictions for the next 10.JonButterfield likes this. -
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bantamdave41 Regular StarterP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant Euro 2020
I'm gonna go with the following :
Wins Plymouth, Walsall Blackpool
Draws Wycombe Fleetwood, Oxford Peterborough
Defeats Portsmouth, Luton, Charlton
We both have one common theme, we don't give up ground on those teams around us.JonButterfield likes this. -
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