Adam Chicksen vs Conor Wood: Statistics

Coming up with diligent research won't wash on here!

 

Just to demonstrate how pointless the above is, Park Bantam used to use a similar set of stats which showed how we were significantly better off starting with Kai Bruenker, and that as a result, Kai Bruenker was clearly a decent player who was key to our success.

 

I don't think the approach is pointless, but I would say it is problematic. There are just too many variables: the rest of the team changes, the opponents change, the referees change, even the weather... Because of all that, I think it's difficult to say differences in results/performances are due mainly to which LB was playing. (Of course, if you can point to mistakes that led directly to goals against, and balance that out with plays that led directly to goals for, for each player, it might help the approach.) And now it seems that we may have found a successful formation in which both play a part.

Some of the criticism does seem over-the-top, however. Chicksen's not Meredith, which may be a factor; injuries and sendings-off/suspensions may be another; add in some weak performances and he becomes an easy target.

RCB

 

I think there is far too much player bashing in general. Chicksen has errors in his game, as does Wood, but they are typical of league 1 players. Meredith was very good which is why he is not playing in league 1.

 

Show me all the pro Chicksen stats you want, it won't change the fact he is god awful.

 

It’s not ‘Chicksen bashing’. He’s a poor player. He’s not alone and he isn’t the only one to have come in for criticism.

We’ve been in the bottom 4 all season. What’s to be expected? Glowing praise all round?

 

To be honest both are poor defensively. We’ve suffered from a stream of opposition crosses raining into our box all season. Chicksen rarely if ever blocks the cross at source. One of the primary basic needs for a full back. He is lightweight and often bullied and targeted by opposition teams who switch play to his wing. They know.
Wood has been a disappointment too. He isn’t a solid left back either. Both played together at Luton and we were decimated there. My only hope is Wood has time to grow and improve. On the ball he looks ok. I’m looking forward to seeing Woods. Everything I’ve heard is he is a tenacious defender. It’s easy for players to be rated higher when you’ve not seen them play vs those you have in the same way that some players out of a struggling team appear better.
The simple facts are on this season to date I wouldn’t keep either wood or chicksen. We need better in order to progress. Hopkin will fix that given time.

 

Get a Girlfriend,

 

Woods is better than both of them. Close thread

 

Sorry Jon, but I think the stats mean zippo, there are far too many variables to consider. Team mates, team mates form, weather, oposition, opposition form, tactics etc etc.

It is clear though without any need for stats, that as ever, some have latched onto a player to bash. Probably the same ones who lauded his arrival as at last, a player who could deliver a cross, good riddance to wanky Meredith.......

 

Chicksen’s a decent League One player. Lacks the usual physicality but I don’t get the hate. And the stats tell their own story.

 

The problem with Chicksen is that he's out of his depth a bit. He's really suited to bottom of the table, league one football.

Oh. Wait.

 

Seriously? You're citing Luton away to prove anything?

Luton are flying. Check the table. They've scored goals for fun at home all season against much better teams than us.

Injuries and suspensions meant that Chicksen played centre back that game, with Woods at LB and Mellor, another fullback, at right CB. So, with a short notice makeshift defence - square pegs in round holes against the runaway top scorers, in a game we'd almost certainly have lost with our regular defence - you're using that game as evidence that Chicksen and Wood are bab?
Unbelievable Jeff!

There are valid arguments that we could do with better than Chicksen and that Wood isn't yet defensively reliable enough in a team scrapping relegation. But the Luton game is certainly not part of that argument.

 

It’s amazing. We have loads of decent league one players but we’ve been in the bottom four all season....

He’s not decent. He’s crap. He’s not alone - but he’s crap.​

 

Time will tell. The Southend and Barnsley games were 100% bottom 4 performances.

 

It hasn’t helped the lad when he has come in to replace Meredith, who was arguably one of the best LB’s in league one while playing for us. Big shoes to fill, which unfortunately he hasn’t been able to step into. The fans are on his back because we were so used to being solid down that side, which we aren’t now, and his defunding ability is being questioned because he isn’t good enough.

 

If you take the last 2 months form and project that from the start of the season to yesterdays game we would be in a play off spot. Even if you take the form of the last 3 months and do the same we would be in 8 th position!
It's therefore pretty clear that our form for the first few months was abysmal. Just take the months of September and October. We played 11 games, a possible max. points total of 33. We managed just 4 points out of those 11 games. Contrast that with our last 11 games, we've secured 18 points. Play off form.
So why are we still in the bottom 4 ? Well it's obviously a combination of atrocious early season form and teams near the bottom of the league also improving - picking up points.