December: Things Could Look Better Before The Window

I did touch on this in a previous comment, orient and stevenage had a lower squad turnover and didnt lose key players like we did. Every team with a higher squad turnover is below us, 3 of them are the bottom 3.

Genuinely i think where we are with the turnover is great stuff. Yes the home form is naff but that will get fixed - the club isn't going to sit there and suggest being 15th in home form is great.

Promotion is the aim and we are getting towards it. Nobody is going to say “demand better” when we are at Wembley.

I do get the concern but i just think we are in a wobble. Got gillingham and rochdale to set us right!

 

Looks more likely that we lose at Gillingham and scrape a draw home to Rochdale on current form though ...

 

I probably should. Unfortunately I'm a glutton for punishment though and struggle to stop going.

 

I agree other than the point with Watt, think he is a big loss and not been able to replace him. We lack a decent AM who can ping balls across the pitch. fingers crossed we do well in Jan.

 

Didn’t Steve Evans have a big clear out of players though after he took over? Stevenage were relegation certainties when he took over so I assume he got rid of loads and brought in replacements to keep them up. Much as nobody wanted him at City he would have got us up this season,admittedly with direct play but it would be a damn sight more entertaining than tip tap tip tap repeat.

 

So, summing it all up; We lost key players, generally replaced them with better and that's the reason we aren't as high up as teams who didn't replace their key players with better but finished below us last year?

Clear as mud.

 

He did and Leyton Orient also brought in more than a dozen players. It doesn't fit in with the excuses made though so it's deemed as largely irrelevant by some.

 

Why does replacing with better automatically mean we go higher?

Who said the teams above us did replace with better?

You clearly havent looked at the image i posted. Leyton orient and Northampton have one of the lowest squad turnovers. And Stevenage got rid of a lot of fringe players.

You still haven’t answered my questions regarding

How did i manipulate the data?
How are we in 6th?

Interesting how you ignore the questions you dont want to answer but then move in again to argue purely in bad faith. You are not fussed about right or wrong - just obsessed with arguments itself.

One more of the sort from you I'm popping you on ignore.

 

Who said that?

 

Cheers Jon, quite a few on here are keen to make out any sort of bad form is terminal or that we shouldn't lose a few games - both of which are ridiculous really. Especially the games we lost were against sides that are 1st and 3rd. Everyone seems so quick to forget we battered Stevenage 3-0 and that we are 6th!

" more promising than our emotions are equipped to deal with right now." and this is why I swim in the data

 

Shall we put that season partly down to Parky, Rhodes and Lawn... But you already know that.

I suppose 1 double digit season of home wins since said season, is more reason for you to stick up for the god damn awful owner?

 

A lots happened at Crawley since he was there. Gillingham went down the pan after he left. You can’t dispute what he did at Rotherham and is doing at Stevenage.

 

Your blaming the wrong villain mate. Rahic was the one that got us into the mess. Rupp has done nothing wrong other than give each manager a competitive budget. As for your heros Lawn and Rhodes, can you imagine the state we would be in with their lack of funds to get through COVID, no cup run since 2015. Far from getting Hughes a competitive budget it would have been cut ,cut,cut the budget deficit.

 

I agree Rupp knows nothing about football that’s why he employs Sparks to run the show. However Sparks will be as knowledgeable as the average club director, certainly as savvy as the Orient or Stevenage owner. It’s the manager who makes the on field decisions plus the recruitment guy and if they get that right then all is right with the world as it is at Orient and Stevenage.