10-game segments (it's baa-ack!)

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..."

RCB

 

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!

RCB

 

Thanks.

I prefer the 55-point target, but as it turns out, this was a season in which 50 did do it, albeit on goal difference. It is certainly a depressing summary; but even in our badness it seems to me that we only had our worst league season ever in one category: 11 clean sheets against at home (old record 9).

Shrewsbury away flattered to deceive; the awful preseason really just carried on thereafter. A side can overcome one bad segment, a second means serious trouble, add a third and relegation is almost a certainty. You're right, we cannot have a repeat unless we want to become the next former first-tier side to play in the conference.

RCB